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Death, the way to go

People travelling abroad for the purpose of assisted dying will not be breaking coronavirus travel rules, the health secretary has said. Matt Hancock told MPs that seeking an assisted death abroad counted as a reasonable excuse to travel. He also stressed that it remains a criminal offence to encourage or assist the death of another person.

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So, not giving treatment as in the case of elderly people being sent to Care Homes from hospital with Covid is perfectly acceptable and encouraged, even when the result will be death. Helping someone to die in the UK is unacceptable but allowing them to go abroad apparently without let or hindrance is now government policy.

Does it not now seem, that as far as this government is concerned, death for the ill and old is positively encouraged.

The Telegraph - November 06th 2020