In response to the Scottish government's consultation on suicide prevention, the NSS highlighted that recent figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest people with potentially terminal health conditions are more than twice as likely to take their own lives than the general population.
The NSS said allowing the option for people suffering intolerably from a terminal illness to control their death under proper medical supervision "will significantly reduce the number of suicides".
Helping a terminally ill patient who wishes to end their life is not currently a specific offence under Scots law but can be prosecuted as murder. The current law contains no safeguards to protect dying people who want to control their death. It also offers fewer protections to people who did not want to die but whose relatives later claim that they did.
It is widely acknowledged that even with the best available palliative care some people's suffering cannot be alleviated.
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What about the suicides rates during the 'pandemic'? Or indeed the excess deaths in the present day that are attributed to unknown 'sudden deaths'? Is it blasphemous to pose such questions to the covid cult?
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