Terminally Ill Opt for Suicide by Starvation

To avoid the legal ban on medically assisted dying, doctors are helping patients starve and dehydrate themselves to death. The retired GPs have advised patients who are terminally ill, or suffer from a degenerative disease, that they can refuse food and drink if they are unable or unwilling to travel to a Swiss clinic to receive a fatal dose of medication. They admit the process of starving and dehydrating to death is “horrific,” but say patients have no alternative as long as euthanasia is illegal in Britain. The doctors are members of the campaign group Friends at the End (Fate), which lobbies for the introduction of assisted dying in Britain and gives practical advice on suicide. They warn patients determined to dehydrate themselves to death not to succumb to the temptation to rinse their parched mouths with water or ice, because this merely prolongs the agony. Suicide by Starvation So I guess now we should close all suicide prevention hotlines, because they would interfere with the wishes of suicidal people.