For Credibly Setting The Record Straight

Well spoken Dr Sinead Donnelly (Friday morning on Radio New Zealand) for an impassioned, well-reasoned defence of current hospice (and hospital) practice in Aotearoa. And moreover for making an undefensive and cogent case in support of NZ's non-euthanizing status quo. Like our ever well-informed P.M. I must admit I've also long vaguely assumed that hospices, if not hospitals, 'already effectively' engaged in a kind of 'euthanasia by default', through, if not [proactively] administering pain relief, then 'by withholding medications' [in certain terminal situations]. So perhaps such an impression has been 'abroad in the land' for awhile, unless of course the P.M. is my intellectual alter ego. And though it's surely a typical media-hyped exaggeration and misrepresentation to denote Dr Donnelly's response as 'angry' or worse, I note and echo the comments of an unabashed euthanasia supporter on Mr Key's not only making such uninformed statements but moreover his extreme unwillingness to ever resile from them once 'on the record'. (Much 'food for thought' all around I feel.)