THE RIGHT TO DIE.
LONDON'. I'oh. L’O. Surprise is expressed Lv London coroners at t Ik* statements hy Mr (!. K. Hoyle. ill:* Searhoroueh eoroner, at an i:ir,ll<• ~t t:n a woman who was said to have praetirtdly starved hersoll’ to death. Mr Hoyle said:
So far as human law is concerned, people have a right to commit suicide. I object to people I cing charged with at templing to commit suicidet2. Mr Reginald Kemp, coroner lor Western Middlesex, said yesterday. It i, a very startling proposition and one that cannot he upheld. We have enough suicides as it is without encouraging people to commit suicide. Major \Y. 11. Whitehouse. coroner for South-Eastern London, said : People have no tight to commit suicide. not even where human law is concerned. Mr Royle said yesterday:
If what you do does not injure public* health, it is not a public* matter. This woman wanted to die. >he wished to turn her face to the wall and be loft alone. The burden of life might have been too great for her. Who has anvthing to do with it hut her and the Almighty ? You have no right to charge an Insane person with an offence*. These people are not mentally responsible.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1924, Page 4
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206THE RIGHT TO DIE. Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1924, Page 4
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