Robert Preston | Assisted Dying SHOULDN'T be legalised

Robert Preston gives his argument AGAINST the motion of the legalisation of Assisted Dying.

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Robert Preston addresses the motion on whether assisted dying should be legalised and should doctors be licensed to supply lethal drugs in the knowledge that they can be used to kill a person. He doesn't believe that a replacement law would be better or safer. He states that a euthanasia law would endanger more people that it would benefit. He uses the euthanasia law in place in Oregon as a benchmark to why it wouldn't work in Britain. The medium length of the Doctor patient relationship to those that administered lethal drugs was just 12 weeks, so a decision based on personal knowledge of the suicidal individual cannot be sound. He says that the death penalty was abolished because mistakes would be made and the wrong person would lose their lives and that's exactly why we shouldn't bring in a euthanasia law. He concludes by saying we should not legalise it.

Filmed on Thursday 18th October 2012

MOTION: THIS HOUSE WOULD LEGALISE ASSISTED DYING

Speakers in Proposition:

Professor Grayling

Richard Ottaway MP

Michael Irwin

Speakers in opposition:

Lord Alton

Baroness Finlay

Rober Preston

RESULT: THE MOTION WAS CARRIED

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