Gordon Brown, the former British Prime Minister, has expressed his opposition to a proposed law which would make assisted dying in the UK easier.
The bill is set to be debated within the next few weeks in the British parliament.
Brown, who was Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, said that there needed to be more debate on the issue.
Writing in The Guardian, Brown said: “An assisted dying law, however well intended, would alter society’s attitude towards elderly, seriously ill and disabled people, even if only subliminally, and I also fear the caring professions would lose something irreplaceable – their position as exclusively caregivers. Add to that the slippery slope with lawmakers, undoubtedly out of compassion, finding the erosion of safeguards and the extension of eligibility hard to resist.”
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