"Those protesting against assisted dying laws are not asking dying people to suffer. The issue is not as black and white as people believe it to be. Those of us protesting do not want people to be in needless pain, instead we want resources other than death to alleviate suffering while people are still alive. We ask that policies ensure that no one is coerced or forced into choosing assisted dying. "

Kathleen Stock writes, "Poverty, undue family influence, and anxiety about being a burden to others are bound to become contributory factors in decision-making; and whatever the outcome, a tormenting sense of personal responsibility about whether to go or not will be added to an already heavy mental load."

"Of particular alarm to the staff members were reports of MAID being used in prisons while incarcerated people were shackled to their beds, the program’s lack of legal oversight, disproportionate representation of impoverished people receiving assisted suicide, and health-care practitioners offering assisted suicide when patients asked for support for living."

"Support and time frequently result in patients no longer wanting to hasten death. But when health care practitioners implicitly agree that a patient’s remaining life is not worth living by prescribing lethal drugs, patients are pushed toward death" writes Dr. Sharon Quick

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