Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Should Assisted Dying Be Legalised in England and Wales?" video.

@beatatz But before too long, the kindly authorities will take the decision out of your hands. With the best of intentions, and for your own good, of course!
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@lyndkent-cl2oe No, but nor would I simply have an old but healthy animal put down because it was an inconvenience. Can you truly not see how those in power will exploit the authority it would give them? Compulsory euthanasia would, inevitably, soon follow. Just imagine how CEOS of NHS Trusts would leap on the opportunity to free up a few beds! When someone is given authority, however slight, they will immediately abuse it.
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Remember the horror that was the perverted 'Liverpool Care Pathway?'
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@haroldandelizabeth Thank you for your informed comment. After assisted dying, compulsory euthanasia is but a short step down the road.
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@Sp3ar. Have you heard of the Austrian 'Angels of Death'? Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Meyer, and Waltraud Wagner were four Austrian women who worked as nurse's aides at the Geriatriezentrum am Wienerwald in Lainz, Vienna, and who murdered scores of patients between 1983 and 1989. The group killed their victims with overdoses of morphine or by forcing water into the lungs. They began by 'assisting the deaths' of terminally ill patients. However, it seems that they gradually found that the power of life and death excited, and ended up by terminating any patients who became nuisances, even if the nuisance was little more than asking for a drink in the night. If you give such powers to authority figures, they will, as authority figures do, inevitably abuse them, and you may well end up with compulsory euthanasia. All to benefit the victim, and for the greater good of 'society' of course. Doubtless, there will be a host of checks & balances, all of which will be quietly eroded in the course of time.
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