Assisted Dying: We put animals to sleep but let people suffer – Yorkshire Post letters

From: Peter Hyde, Driffield.
By YP Letters
Published 25th Jul 2019, 17:45 BST
reader Karl Sheridan has spoken movingly about the case for assisted dying following the death of his wife Ann.reader Karl Sheridan has spoken movingly about the case for assisted dying following the death of his wife Ann.
reader Karl Sheridan has spoken movingly about the case for assisted dying following the death of his wife Ann.

READING Ruby Kitchen’s article about assisted dying (The Yorkshire Post, July 20), I have to agree with the law being changed. Karl Sheridan should never have had to watch his wife Ann dying such a terrible death, especially when the suffering was so unnecessary.

Yorkshire widower’s heartfelt plea over assisted dying

If we can put animals to sleep to end their suffering, then why do we have to treat human with less compassion than we would an animal?

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reader Karl Sheridan has spoken movingly about the case for assisted dying following the death of his wife Ann.reader Karl Sheridan has spoken movingly about the case for assisted dying following the death of his wife Ann.
reader Karl Sheridan has spoken movingly about the case for assisted dying following the death of his wife Ann.

I can see the danger of allowing assisted suicide 
when a relative has become a burden and is persuaded by family to ask the doctor to 
end it all, but surely doctors should be able to weed those cases out?

The law on assisted dying in England

It isn’t everyone who can afford the £10,000 to travel abroad to do what any sane person would want to do instead of having to endure the agony of a painful death.

I am equally sure that there are compassionate doctors who break the current law and who is to deny that they have acted in the best interest of the patient?

From: Thomas Reed, Harrogate.

THANK you to Karl Sheridan for speaking so courageously about assisted dying. He has convinced me that the law needs to be refined.

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