There has been a big debate over the past twenty-years over whether we want to have a system where people can choose to go to a medical facility to end their lives legally.

The issue isn't whether people want to choose to end their lives legally in medical facilities or at home under the guidance of medical doctors and nurses, but the burden it places on the wider society with life debilitating physical and mental challenges, some from birth, others from accidents, injury or overwhelming life challenges.

By having a law such as the Assisted Dying Bill you are not allowing the wider society in choosing to live but are actually putting the wider society into the crosshairs of those that want to kill at any cost and laws like this will protect those in the medical and psychological field when it gets abused.

Countries that have adopted euthanasia legislation have moved beyond the dying and elderly to the wider population and sadly even children are not spared.

Therefore, we cannot support a piece of legislation that its sole purpose is to place the whole population into the crosshairs of death.

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