Voluntary Assisted Dying, page-57

hmmm - someone has to make the decisions.

I had a mate (he's now dead). Who worked in what I assume must have been a birth unit or whatever they called it then ---- in Scotland I think. (it was definitely the UK, and he was very Scottish and I know he worked in Scotland a lot).

He told me that when they had babies who were ? whatever they were - had some kind of problem where they couldn't live or if they lived would be just kept alive etc etc. -

that the babies needed to be killed. But - there was no law or desire by many to enable giving the kids death by injection or similar - but, they had to have their life terminated ---- so, the mechanism was to just not feed the baby.

Nothing, just leave them in their cot.

The baby dehydrated and the tongue swelled up and they asphyxiated. And that was it.

Now to me - as long as the direction was crystal - ie. that the kid had some horrible disease and they would never have had a life etc etc - then, I would have easily - far more easily given the baby an injection of some sedative that would have just put it to sleep in a sleep that it never would wake from.
It would be sad, yes ----- but, in comparison to just allowing the child to starve and die like they did ----------- common practice - I thought was the most gutless act.