Re "The 'normalising' of euthanasia", Advocate, February 24, contributed by Steve Jaunay, Voice for Life, Executive committee.
Let's be clear about the Voice for Life organisation. They are the anti-abortion lobby group and their bias is firmly set in their religious beliefs. They are totally without compassion or
respect for those of us who do not belong to their jaundiced organisations, or hold other beliefs.
Jaunay cherry-picks his "facts" to denigrate Dr R Jonquiere and the very big issue of end-of-life choices. He repeatedly refers to assisted dying on request as "killing".
Dr Jonquiere explained the quite dreadful circumstances, under which he complied with patients' requests to help them. He said it is quite traumatic for a doctor to take this step for their patients but it is the final step in compassionate palliative care.
Jaunay, in quoting the Hippocratic Oath as stating doctors "must do no harm", cannot recognise that treatment extending the unbearable suffering of a dying person, can itself be harmful.
