Scotland: Suicide clinics give patients "much-needed service" says Kirk minister

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Dr John Cameron, a leading Church of Scotland minister, writes that Dignitas provides a "much needed service" for people who want to "die as they have lived". Writing in the Church of Scotland magazine, Cameron says National Health Service claims that palliative care was available for all in Britain's hospitals were false.

Opposing his church's negative views on Independent MSP Margo MacDonald's End of Life Choices Bill, he says: "Having access to physician-assisted suicide allows the patient to maintain control over his or her situation and to end life in an ethical and merciful manner. Having such access in our own country would remove the necessity of a premature journey to a foreign country and dying among strangers — surely the ultimate unintended consequence of opposition by the Christian community."

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Ross, Shan. "Suicide clinics give patients "much-needed service" says Kirk minister". The Scotsman. Last Updated: 23 November 2009 10:27 PM. <news.scotsman.com/scotland/Suicide-clinics-give-patients-39muchneeded.5850321.jp>. The Scotsman, Barclay House, 108 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AS, UK

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  • assisted suicide

  • Dignitas

  • Margo MacDonald

  • legislation

  • Scotland

  • Britain

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Mailed: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 14:22:45 -0600
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