Elderly face a grim fate
Most readers know of the supporting submissions being heard by the Parliament from eager believers hoping that a Bill for End of Life Choice will succeed.
It would seem, there are some who continually have lots to say against this compassionate and necessary piece of legislation.
If our MPs were to visit the Rest Homes occasionally and see the hundreds of elderly patients lying, being lifted from their beds after being washed down, fed at meal times (if they are lucky), with no visiting families, they might think twice about refusing the relief the Bill would bring to our citizens in the future.
Bless them they are unable to ask for the help.
The generation (of which I am one) who are presently moving or have moved into retirement villages face the fact that there will be hundreds more laying in such a state in the near future. For progressively they will need to move on to full care in a rest home and some of us will suffer as we reach the end of our lives. A well acknowledged fact is that the numbers of the aged are increasing rapidly and the help that is being requested would surely be of some comfort to those who fear getting older and facing a lengthy wait ( lacking dignity and hope), to die.
With the excellent safeguards within the End of Life Choice Bill, if it were passed, would surely be of some consolation to our growing older population, and dare I say, prevent the suicide thoughts of many. air. This was a classic example of why we love test cricket so much.
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