The Inglis appeal judgment is a fascinating revelation into how euthanasia works

John Smeaton, SPUC director: The Inglis appeal judgment is a fascinating revelation into how euthanasia works: The statement by the presiding judge is significant:

'We must also emphasise that the law does not recognise the concept implicit in the defence statement that Thomas Inglis was 'already dead in all but a small physical degree'. The fact is that he was alive, a person in being. However brief the time left for him, that life could not lawfully be extinguished. Similarly, however disabled Thomas might have been, a disabled life, even a life lived at the extremes of disability, is not one jot less precious than the life of an able-bodied person. Thomas's condition made him especially vulnerable, and for that among other reasons, whether or not he might have died within a few months anyway, his life was protected by the law, and no one, not even his mother, could lawfully step in and bring it to a premature conclusion.'