A doctor with terminal cancer demands to legalize euthanasia in New Zealand.
Sydney (Australia), July 21 .- A New Zealander who has a medical terminal cancer has launched a campaign for voluntary euthanasia is legalized as a basic right of every human being, local press reported today.
John Pollock, who suffers and the metastasis of melanoma that are barely a few months old, says that laws can not die with dignity are "outdated, cruel and unnecessary," according, buy darkfall gold, to the "New Zealand Herald."
A month ago, Pollock sent a letter to a prestigious medical journal in which he asked his colleagues to demand that his professional body to urge the Parliament to legalize euthanasia.
"The law says we can only provide relief to terminally ill patients, although some are in a state of suffering like the Jews who died of, allods gold, starvation in the Nazi concentration camps," he said in his letter.
Pollock, 61, complained that "ironically, if it were a cat, a dog or a horse, we can eliminate their pain without the risk of going to jail."
"My cancer may kill me in various ways, some of them very painful and intolerable, and I'd like to avoid, but, cheap aion kinah, our retrograde and cruel laws force me to suffer until the end or commit suicide", he added.
The doctor, who retired last December when he learned that he had less than a year of life ensures that you have "good luck" if he dies of a heart attack or pneumonia.
Pollock regret reside in New Zealand and Belgium or the Netherlands, where he had the option to voluntarily die when her condition had deteriorated to the point of great suffering, if the case is contrasted by two independent physicians who are willing to perform euthanasia .