Legalising assisted suicide ‘deems old and sick expendable’

THE old, ill, mute and frail will be deemed expendable if assisted suicide is legalised, a British think-tank said.

Society’s most vulnerable risk being bullied into an early death by greedy or uncaring relatives or bureaucrats, a study published by the Centre for Policy Studies said.

The warning follows the launch in Britain of Healthcare Professionals for Change last week, the first professional body of doctors and nurses set up with the explicit aim of changing the 1961 Suicide Act.