CONSERVATIVE
New Forest East

EUTHANASIA - 28 January 2000

EUTHANASIA - 28 January 2000

Dr Julian Lewis: I support what the hon. Gentleman [George Galloway] says. I am close friends with a family in the Netherlands, where euthanasia was legalised. The father collapsed from a heart attack and, after a short time, attempts at resuscitation were given up. The family have never been able to trust the doctors again and believe to this day that that decision was made because the general respect for trying hard to save life had been undermined by the introduction of euthanasia. That has had a knock-on effect.