Dogs Have Better Deaths: Dame Esther Rantzen's Campaign for Assisted Dying

Dame Esther Rantzen, who is currently undergoing treatment for stage four lung cancer, has told GMB that she thinks dogs have better deaths than people in Britain. The broadcaster is campaigning for the law to be changed on assisted dying.
Dame Esther's daughter, Rebecca Wilcox tells
Susanna Reid that she will not stop until either Rishi Sunak or Sir Keir Starmer stick to their pledge to hold a vote on assisted dying following the general election.
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[@caroleanneruncorn4794]

Rantzen said unjabbed shouldn't get health care. She was utterly vile. Divine Retribution.

[@AngelaDibble-qc2ot]

That's appalling, I didn't know that. That would be me scuppered!

[@jacklewis100]

@@AngelaDibble-qc2ot Well, you didn't know it because it's not true. @caroleanneruncorn4794 is being either ignorant or dishonest. Dame Esther did not say that. In a contexted interview, she suggested that unvaccinated people might CHOOSE not to go to the NHS if they were sick, not that healthcare be refused.

[@aethellstan]

my body, my life, my decision.

[@antispindr8613]

Is it REALLY their choice if an old person (or someone that is disabled) is made to feel a burden on the state? In this respect, is not this a new from of final solution?

[@aethellstan]

@@antispindr8613 yes it is. there will be checks and balances built in. if the individual can't make the decision then it doesn't happen. it will only be allowable in certain cases and burden on the state isn't one of them. you don't get to make decisions on my behalf.

[@antispindr8613]

But are you (anyone) not concerned that people have always found ways around ANY rules/laws?

[@aethellstan]

@@antispindr8613 oh ok, lets not have any rules then. daft question.

[@antispindr8613]

No, to prevent greedy people from bumping off granny and collecting her money, will there not be a need for the strongest of safeguards? Even than, will not someone always find some legal loophole?

[@captcomps]

Anyone who has seen a loved one waste away - knows that we treat dogs more humanely than humans. The law really should be changed.

[@gailcusden3607]

Esther she is saying she is doing it for her family. This is an example of why vulnerable people would be open to abuse. What if not all family members agree with the decision.

[@elizabethwindsong5689]

Evil personified. Ego gone feral!

[@michaelmartin9090]

I'm sorry but I see assisted dying as a form of Execution. This can and would eventually be misused deliberately by an evermore growing deceitful and dangerous society that has been fermenting since the start of the 2000's

[@vivian9187]

What Esther cannot discuss is what the dog would choose. And that makes this example null and void

[@bereal6590]

That's why responsible animal lovers make the best choices they can, so no its not null and void

[@vivian9187]

@bereal6590 Yeah, but my point is that the dog itself does not contribute to the decision-making process and, therefore, is an incomparable example regarding humans making this decision. And tbh I can't see many dogs agreeing to it either if they could

[@MohammedMagdi-yh3kr]

Welcome back, the program is time

[@PharmaTroll]

Following divoc seniccav that were not seniccav but actually illegally administered GMOs, and the Post Office Horizon prosecution and imprisoning of innocent individuals, there is absolutely no way the state can be given the power to assist people with dying. Too much of that was done with DNRs and "end of life care" for people that would otherwise have lived if it were not for the perceived need to free up hospital beds. Our politicians and health service have demonstrated that they are completely untrustworthy and there is no return.

[@LMC232]

Really? Often abandoned by owners in the last moments of life because people can't stand watching a loved pet die....pets don't always die happily, often they are anxious, watching by the door, hoping. This law poses a direct threat to us all. How long before climate changes mean the elderly are all seen as dispersible?

[@Fionacollins50]

Or handicapt, depressed people.... it's a very dangerous precident.

[@Joe22245]

​@@Fionacollins50being allowed to die on your own terms is a dangerous sentiment?

[@CaroleEvans93436]

@@Joe22245 If the law changes, I can imagine people taking advantage of the 'right to die' policy. Not only that, it will have a knock on effect for life insurance policies who don't pay out for suicide. As a retired nurse, I have cared for many people with end stage cancer/dementia/alcoholism related illnesses - and I would say that all had a very peaceful death and they just drifted away. We give extremely powerful drugs to ease pain.

[@Joe22245]

@@CaroleEvans93436 While I very much appreciate the opinion of someone such as yourself and accept that this kind of policy - without a carefully considered integration - could be abused, the current situation where someone can be criminally charged for carrying out a terminally ill patient's wishes is entirely inhumane.

[@PEGGLORE]

I've extreme PTSD after an event in the lottery in the decillions to one in odds, that's never happened in the world before, and won't happen in the word again. I've been taken out the human race by the National Lottery basically. Where's my right to my assisted death? It would be utterly sick for me to be made to continue living as a living martyr for the National Lottery. Left to rot, ,whilst they prosper on unabated. I should be allowed to die peacefully if I want to.

[@stephenwilliams944]

Embalmed presenters.

[@julielawlor5482]

Poor animals do not have the rescources humans do Esther wants to go to Dignitas Its not cheap Then go to Dignitas

[@antispindr8613]

Clearly, there is a killing to be made out of dying. A case of That’s Death!