A Very Scary Thought…
It has been pointed out on Facebook today that more than 90% of suicide attempts (non-assisted) fail.
Failed suicide attempts today, (non-assisted) are seen as a cry for help.
Today, under the current law, when someone survives a suicide attempt, I would like to hope that they are provided with the help they were crying for. I would like to hope that their lives improve as a result of the help provided.
However:
Another point has been made on Facebook today, one which sent shivers right through me.
Consider this, under a changed law.
Person attempts suicide… (physically healthy, non-assisted)
Assisted suicide legal.
Person unconscious at hospital.
Staff finish the person off, cause you know they obviously wanted to be dead…
Is that a possibility?
What a scary thought, readers.
Same Difference 
I don’t think the law would allow that, and medical staff have the hypocratic oath to do no harm, and I don’t see any nurses likely to deliberately kill someone who has attempted to commit suicide either. The probability is that in that instance it would still be regarded as murder anyway because there would be no proof the person really wanted to die.
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Yes it is possible.depending on what they think the person’s quality of life is. I doubt they would do it by by actively giving drugs to achieve that unless they are intent on that, such as staff who give none prescribed high dose insulin, but they may actively withdraw life support such as ventilation, fluid and nutrition, or do not give antibiotics to treat an infection. Without someone fighting on your behalf you are finished. Most people think living with double incontinence, requiring assistance with personal care, and getting around in a wheelchair is a poor quality of life, though most people with spinal Injury get on with life doing things differently.
Many years ago when I worked in the NHS, it was decided that a patient should not be offered any active ongoing care that could have offered him a decade of further life and just to make him comfortable. When the patent was still alive 2 days later he asked why he was still there.
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Too scary for words. Often a failed suicide is a cry for help, if we have suicide as an option then some creature will appear and take our lives. Let us hope the Bill is thrown out again, however there are many would be killers out there and I would be looking over my shoulder, especially if I went into hospital.
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