Juliet Carp is a Solicitor and employment law specialist with over 30 years’ experience of advising employers and employees, and a former elected Chair of the UK Employment Lawyers Association. Views as expressed in this article are her own.
Every day millions of sick and dying people are helped with things that most of us would rather not do. These include nurses and doctors. Also people who do the ordinary things needed to keep homes, hospitals and hospices running. People who drive taxis, make appointments, measure drugs, talk with patients, dress sores, cook meals, make beds and clean everything from medical instruments to sheets and toilets. Some look after people who would choose assisted suicide. Many are low paid, vulnerable and speak English as a second or third language – and many have a religious faith which opposes assisted suicide.
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