Gordon Brown, the former prime minister of England from the Labour Party, has written an op-ed in The Guardian against the current assisted suicide push in both London and in Scotland. He writes that palliative care is woefully underfunded, and until that is rectified, assisted suicide should not be under consideration.

The longer this legislation sits, the more people seem to be realizing its grave implications.

Here’s some of how he paints the picture:

The shocking revelations from the National Audit Office and Hospice UK in October about the worsening financial crisis faced by end-of-life care are a sharp reminder of what needs to be changed if we are to be fair to dying people. . . .

According to the Commission on Palliative and End-of-Life Care, between 450,000 and 540,000 of the 600,000 people who die each year in the UK would have benefited from but didn’t receive palliative care, either in a hospice or through hospice care in the community. Although 56% of........

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