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Palliative care is integrated into Dutch healthcare; it's a universal service. Palliative medicine doesn't address all types of pain/discomfort. Pain isn't the only factor that impacts people's experiences with terminal illness. Where's the evidence that people who opt for euthanasia/assisted suicide are doing so (primarily) because of 'disabling barriers' such as inadequate palliative services? ____________________________________________________________ ProLiving is an Australian disability collective. It has put up its comprehensiveDisability Position Statement On Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide here: http://proliving.blogspot.com/2011/03/disability-position-statement-on.html Too often dismissed as 'merely' a private issue of individual choice, or a de facto religious area of interest, the Statement puts many disability-specific reasons why euthanasia should be opposed and focus should be on the other side of the euthanasia coin: that of the need for universally available high quality palliative care, hospital care and community/disability services. Regards Erik Leipoldt________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.