Think of palliative care instead


I WOULD like to respond to Pola Singh’s views expressed in “Mulling over assisted dying” (The Star, Oct 30).

I can certainly appreciate the suffering described in the case of his friend’s father and it really saddens me to hear how he was pleading for his pain and suffering to be stopped. However, rather than seeing this unfortunate case as a call to mull over doctor-assisted dying, I would appeal to people to ask two more pertinent questions: “Why was the pain and suffering NOT addressed by the numerous doctors who had been caring for him?”

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