Speaking directly to GB News members, Dr Renée Hoenderkamp has issued a stark warning against the Assisted Dying Bill, calling it not just misguided, but dangerous.“I want to tell you today why I am totally opposed to the assisted dying bill,” she began. “Let’s call it what it is. It’s actually an assisted suicide bill.”Dr Hoenderkamp, a GP, made it clear that she believes Britain already has assisted dying - and that it doesn’t involve ending lives early. “We already have assisted dying. It’s called palliative care,” she said. “The problem that we have in the UK is not enough money goes into palliative care.”As she explained, many people simply aren’t aware of the options already available to ensure pain-free end-of-life care. “A lot of people don’t know that there is something available in palliative care… when your pain becomes so great that it can’t be managed just with pain relief – called continuous deep sedation – where you're actually given enough medication that you go into a deep sleep and you're not feeling pain. But neither are we killing you.”She emphasised that “the body will slowly die, obviously, because that’s what we all do, but we can actually make it pain free completely until the end.”
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00:00I want to tell you today why I'm totally opposed to the assisted dying bill.
00:05Let's call it what it is, it's actually an assisted suicide bill.
00:08We already have assisted dying, it's called palliative care.
00:12The problem that we have in the UK is not enough money goes into palliative care,
00:16so only one in four people actually access good palliative care.
00:20A lot of people don't know that there is something available in palliative care
00:24when your pain becomes so great that it can't be managed just with pain really,
00:28called continuous deep sedation where you're actually given enough medication
00:33that you go into a deep sleep and you're not feeling pain, but neither are we killing you.
00:38The body will slowly die obviously because that's what we all do,
00:42but we can actually make it pain-free completely until the end.
00:46We need to put our efforts there. It is not the state's job to kill people.
00:52This private member's bill has been rushed through, it's been bullied at committee stage
00:57with the committee being loaded about 15 to 8 for and against assisted dying,
01:03and that's reflected in all of the amendments that have been voted down in those numbers.
01:08What I worry about as a GP is it's not my role to suggest to people that they might want to die.
01:14I worry that it's going to slip to suggesting that to people with anorexia, disabilities,
01:19finding it hard in life to function financially.
01:22That is not what we're here for. We're here to help people.
01:26I really worry about old people being coerced to die, and believe me, I've seen it, and you can't always spot it.
01:33Old people often feel that they should die because they're a burden.
01:37Younger people in the family feel that granny's money should not be wasted in her care home fees,
01:44so they actually want granny not to go to a care home or not to go there for very long.
01:49I have seen people move into granny's home while she's in a care home and frustrate all efforts to see her come home.
01:57There is so much that can go wrong with this, and the biggest problem is the slippery slope.
02:03Kim Ledbetter will tell you that in Oregon it hasn't happened. It has.
02:07And more and more people in Oregon are saying that the reason they want to die is for financial hardship and mental distress.
02:13Those are not reasons to die. We can help those people.
02:18Let's not kill people. Let's not do it this way. Let's help them and give them a good death.
02:23Let's pray for them.
02:42Let's pray for them.