tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post3903413921023864845..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: Professor Chalmers: The law "cannot be stated with any degree of certainty whatsoever..."Lallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-3076472489543518042015-02-18T12:42:20.047+00:002015-02-18T12:42:20.047+00:00Worrying article from the Guardian about the eager...Worrying article from the Guardian about the eagerness of doctors to assist voluntary euthanasia in Holland: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/17/assisted-dying-dutch-doctors-patient-law-netherlands<br /><br />Other studies of clients of the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland show similar patteens: the largest majority were those who were not terminally ill, but were just 'sick of life'. Most of them lonely old women.<br /><br />I just worry where it takes us as a society; as I feel that if non-terminally ill people are sick of life, then that's a problem for society, for the kind of uncaring, atomised, society we have become.<br /><br />Is all.devorgillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11885637866018093933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-89187223465537595922015-02-12T20:49:25.228+00:002015-02-12T20:49:25.228+00:00The public also supports bringing back hanging! Bu...The public also supports bringing back hanging! But when law-makers consider something so drastic they get cold feet. And rightly so.<br /><br />I have real misgivings about it. Too complex to tell here. But on the other hand I recognise that large numbers of people claim to be in support. And that people don't like to be told they can't have something these days. They feel it's authoritarian to deny this wish.<br /><br />So then I think, let them have it. But let the NHS and state be no part of the provision. Just the regulation. Let those in favour put their money where their mouth is, so to speak, and organise it on a voluntary, non-profit, charitable basis.<br /><br />I think it's going to go through though.devorgillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11885637866018093933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-55077050931760404112015-02-12T14:16:25.947+00:002015-02-12T14:16:25.947+00:00That is certainly what the polling seems to sugges...That is certainly what the polling seems to suggest -- but if the last vote iin Holyrood was anything to go by (and that was a vote, not on the detail, but the general principles), many politicians are reluctant to touch the issue. I don't know if Patrick Harvie has more than an informal nosecount yet on how MSPs are considering voting at stage 1 of the Bill, but I would be surprised if this Bill reaches the statute book this time around.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-21758554944816040872015-02-12T12:30:25.441+00:002015-02-12T12:30:25.441+00:00Why will it not pass? It's supporters claim wi...Why will it not pass? It's supporters claim wide public support.devorgillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11885637866018093933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-87513999446446692242015-02-12T10:32:02.341+00:002015-02-12T10:32:02.341+00:00That's reassuring. *loads up with peats just i...That's reassuring. *loads up with peats just in case*Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-43647757349963831632015-02-11T12:37:17.906+00:002015-02-11T12:37:17.906+00:00A few compelling reasons.
1. The Bill is - in all...A few compelling reasons.<br /><br />1. The Bill is - in all probability - unlikely to pass. It is important that parliamentarians voting on it understand what regime they are leaving in place, and the problems which characterise it.<br /><br />2. Even if the Bill does pass, it proposes to decriminalise assisting suicide in narrowly defined circumstances. In order to do this in a clear-eyed way, we really have to understand the law into which this legislation intervenes. It isn't a straightforward "trumping" situation.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-87015576948017154352015-02-10T23:53:53.675+00:002015-02-10T23:53:53.675+00:00Just been reading Chambers 'Traditions of Edin...Just been reading Chambers 'Traditions of Edinburgh' of 1868 in which he suggests the Court of Sessions ran on the basis of 'Show me the man and I'll show you the law'.<br /><br />It appears from reading this flytin' of the Justice Committee and Professor Chalmer's evidence on the matter to the Health and Sport Committee this would remain the principal criminal law view of the Assisted Suicide Bill.<br /><br />By the way, did you know - according to Mr Chambers - that a 'Peat' was a QA who had a direct line of contact (usually familial) to one of their Lordships in the Court of Session. By taking on one their Lordship's 'peats' to plead your case, you were pretty certain of walking away 'Scot free'. If the case before the judges was being presented by 'peats' on both sides then, 'Show me the man and I'll show you the law.' would apply and the longest purse would carry the day. By the 1860's Mr Chamber's seeks to assure us in the Scottish Courts, ' .. the spots that once sullied the garments of justice are effaced ...'<br /><br />Mad Jock McMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17088238215251518226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-87322008471592056892015-02-10T23:25:45.415+00:002015-02-10T23:25:45.415+00:00Why is it important what the current law is when M...Why is it important what the current law is when Margo's bill would trump it if passed into law?devorgillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11885637866018093933noreply@blogger.com