THE euthanasia debate, highlighted by the death of Gold Coast grandmother Nancy Crick, is being played out like a chess game by the campaigners for legalisation.
The pro-euthanasia campaign is hoping to sway public opinion to its side by using terminally ill people as pawns in its game strategy.
By publicising emotional appeals from people like Mrs Crick, expressing their desire to be allowed to die, the pro-euthanasia lobby is avoiding the difficult issues and implications of legalisation.
Under any relaxation of existing laws, questions of a person being able to give informed consent are raised and where to draw the line becomes blurred.
The issue is not, as the pro-euthanasia lobby would have us believe, the right to die, but rather people’s right to live.
