Introducing legal assisted dying could be abused by people "who want granny and grandpa to hurry up and die", MPs have heard. In a Westminster Hall debate at Parliament today, Conservative MP for Devizes, Danny Kruger, said: "We need to keep assisted dying illegal, in my view, because, in practical fact, for many people it would narrow their autonomy and reduce their freedom substantially, because it would put them on a path that only has one destination.
"I suggest that if members think we can prevent people being put on the pathway to assisted dying by good drafting or because doctors are good people, which obviously they are, we should think about the do not resuscitate scandal we had in the pandemic, we should think about the Liverpool care pathway and then suggest that there is no risk - I think there is.
"I know doctors are good people who want the best, but if we force them to make utilitarian decisions about the best use of resources, won't they push people in this direction?"
