Canterbury Mornings

A former Prime Minister is campaigning against the End of Life Choice Bill, saying it is dangerous and is parliament-sanctioned killing.Sir Bill English was at a meeting that was held in Rangiora last night, one of many held to discuss David Seymour's Member's Bill.It proposes people with terminal illness be able to request assisted dying.Sir Bill told Chris Lynch that he has become more convinced about how dangerous the bill is."You have this discussion about the compassion of how to support people when they are dying, but Parliament and the MPs of Christchurch now have to write a set of rules to do something that they have not done before, which is to give permission to a small group of doctors to be able to kill people who have asked to be killed."He says when the rules are full of hazards. Sir Bill believes it could make New Zealand a dangerous place to be old and confused, disabled, or young and suicidal."How do we tell young people not to consider suicide as a solution to their depression on the one han