Human Life Itself has No Value: Britain’s Leading Bioethicist and Assisted Suicide Campaigner: Unlike gold and platinum, life does not have value in itself, a member of the House of Lords and a campaigner for assisted suicide said in a televised debate last week. Medical professionals need to change their attitude towards assisted suicide, to take into account the wishes of patients who request to die, said Baroness Mary Warnock, known in Britain as the “philosopher queen” of bioethics.
“There is no moral justification why the opinions of judges, lawyers and doctors should override those of the patient [who has expressed a wish to die],” she said. “The mission of doctors is to help people, to make their lives better not worse. Sometime death is more desirable than life.”
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