Euthanasia debate blurs line between terminal illness and disability

Actress, Liz Carr, has highlighted that many disabled people believe Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill is aimed at them because “the line between terminal illness and disability impairment is blurred”.
 
The star of BBC dramas noted that disabled people were being “edited out of the discussion” on assisted suicide, despite their concerns that safeguards had failed to protect vulnerable people in countries where assisted suicide is legal.
 
As a disabled actress and comedian, Liz Carr is part of a group of disabled anti-euthanasia activists called ‘Not Dead Yet UK’ who are among those groups, including Christian Concern, who have campaigned against Lord Falconer’s Bill, which is at committee stage in the House of Commons.

“This has everything to do with disability even if it feels to the public it isn’t at the moment,” she says.

The actress was “stunned” when visiting the Netherlands for a BBC radio programme on euthanasia to find that its supporters were campaigning for “death on demand”.

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