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veggibles@lemmy.wtf to World News@quokk.au · 1 month ago

Scottish lawmakers reject bill to let terminally ill people end their lives

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Scottish lawmakers reject bill to let terminally ill people end their lives

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veggibles@lemmy.wtf to World News@quokk.au · 1 month ago
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Scotland’s Parliament rejected legislation that would have made Scotland the first in the U.K. to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives.
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    Religious beliefs

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      Scotland is one of the least religious places in the west, the main argument is that people would try and kill their vulnerable family members to get inheritance / not have to deal with them anymore.

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        I’m worried about a scenario that won’t happen so now dying people must spend their final months in unendurable agony. Great logic.

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        For real? Man that’s wild

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        What an odd argument, that could just as easily happen now.

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