£1.50Vol. 116 No. 5 May 2011

Ethical RecordThe Proceedings of the South Place Ethical Society

ASSISTED DYING Michael Irwin 3NEW ACQUISITIONS TO THE HUMANIST LIBRARY Cathy Broad 5LIBRARY LEAFLET (being issued to libraries) 6VIEWPOINTS: Jim Tazewell, Don Langdown, Beatrice Feder, Dorothy Forsyth 8TOM FORSYTH (1920-1911) Joan Palmer and Dorothy Forsyth 11ETHICAL SOCIETY EVENTS 12

EDITORIAL - THE ETHICS OF ASSASSINATIONLeading Western politicians have mostly endorsed the propriety of launchingmissions whose prime object is the death of a particular individual. They can feelconfident in basking in the approval of the populace, especially of course whenthe target is someone who not only wantonly displays his cruelty, viciousnessand contempt for human life but has acquired exceptional autocratic powers tocause great harm.

In the course of history, the old tribal method of vengeance as the meansof justice has been replaced in many countries by civilized notions of the trial,with evidence of the alleged crime critically examined by judge and jury. Forthis to work, there has to be acceptance by society of the rule of law.

Signs that endorsement of execution without trial is sometimes hesitantcan be seen. Did something called ‘the rule of law’ lurk in Obama’s mind? BinLaden was to be taken alive (unless he resisted; also no American was requiredto risk harm to himself in the process of arrest but if innocent relatives got killedas well, that was too bad). “Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?” iseffectively a clear instruction to those who heard it. The USA is mightilyrelieved to know the monster will not have to be tried.

In the contemporary world, are we not in danger of slipping back to themore primitive mode, with its endless rounds of reprisals?

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ASSISTED DYINGMichael Irwin

Lecture to the Ethical Society, 3 April 2011

In 1935, a group of clergymen (including Canon Dick Shepherd from St.Martins-in-the-Fields, in London) and doctors (among them, the Royal Familysurgeon, Lord Moynihan) founded the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (today,known as Dignity in Dying). This was the first right-to-die organization in theworld. The first public meeting of VES was held at BMA House on December10th 1935 (December 10th is now the International Human Rights Day).

There are four stages of “Doctor-Assisted Dying”. The first is thewithholding or withdrawing of medical treatment – a practice once called“passive euthanasia”. This is completely legal. If someone has an advancedecision (often simply called a “living will”) – stating the medical care he or shewould like to receive if one becomes mentally incompetent – this can be a veryuseful document for that individual’s family and doctors, in such situations.Advance decisions are fully supported by the BMA, the Royal College ofNursing, and the Law Society, as well as being legally binding, following theMental Capacity Act of 2005.

The second stage used to be called the “double effect”. If someone issuffering a great deal, from the symptoms of a terminal illness, a doctor can giveincreasing dosages of a drug like diamorphine to lessen the pain or distress,privately knowing that this will shorten the patient’s life. This process allowsdoctors to perform “slow euthanasia” or “terminal sedation”, without publiclydeclaring their true intentions (hopefully, the patient has agreed to this deceit!).

Thirdly, doctor-assisted suicide can occur. Here, a doctor provides aprescription for a lethal substance (or, sometimes, the actual drug) which apatient can take whenever he or she wishes to do so. This is illegal in the UK.Finally, voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia - a doctor intentionally endingsomeone’s life, with or without that patient’s permission, by giving an injectionof a lethal drug - can be done.

‘Illegal’ Voluntary EuthanasiaAssisted dying, in fact, occurs everywhere in the world. Until recently, no oneknew how often it occurred in the UK. In the January 2006 issue of PalliativeMedicine, Professor Clive Seale, from London University, reported on a surveyhe had made in 2004. Based on his findings, he estimated that, annually, in theUK, there were 1,000 cases of (illegal) voluntary euthanasia and 2,000 cases of(illegal) non-voluntary euthanasia, and that one person in six died as a result ofterminal sedation. In 2007, in a repeat survey, he obtained similar results.

Legalized doctor-assisted suicide and/or voluntary euthanasia occurs in sixparts of the world today. In The Netherlands, about three percent of all deathshappen this way, and nine in ten Dutch doctors are supportive. Strict guidelinesare in place, and everthing is carefully monitored. In this country, palliative careis integrated into the general medical system. In both Belgium and Luxembourg,voluntary euthanasia is legal. In Switzerland, doctor-assisted suicide has been

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possible for at least the past thirty-five years: at present, about 400 deaths a yearoccur this way. In this country, there are two organizations (Dignitas being thebest known) willing to help foreigners (in the past ten years, about 180 Britons- those who can afford it - have travelled to Switzerland to die). And, in theUnited States, doctor-assisted suicide, for those who are “terminally-ill” (that is,likely to die within six months), is possible in Oregon and Washington State. Ofcourse, the obvious question is - Are we so different in the UK from those wholive in these six places? If legalized assisted dying is possible there, why nothere?

Public support for legalized doctor-assisted dying, in the UK, is very great.Various polls, in recent years, have shown figures of 75% to 80% in support.“Organized medicine” is cautious - at the BMA conference in 2005, a “neutral”position was adopted: however, mainly due to pressure from the ChristianMedical Fellowship, next year, the BMA returned to its negative position.However, in 2009, the Royal College of Nursing also decided on a “neutral”position, and this has not yet changed.

The main opposition to changing the law, in most countries, is fromreligious groups, with, in Europe, the Roman Catholic Church being thestrongest opponent. But, the Islamic and Jewish faiths are also negative. ForChristians, the Bible is not really helpful regarding suicide. There are eightsuicides described in the Old Testament, and one in the New Testament: but,none of these texts offer detailed comments on the morality of the act. Christiandisapproval of suicide actually dates from the fourth century. Then, the church,encouraged by St. Augustine, adopt a strict prohibition against suicide preciselybecause it had become so popular among Christians.

Since 1936, there have been several attempts at Westminster, to change thelaw. In 2006, Joel Joffe introduced, in the House of Lords, a Bill to legalizedoctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. He lost by 148 votes to 100: noneof the 26 Anglican bishops there spoke in favour (so much for Christiancompassion!). More recently, in Europe, there have been discussions in variouscountries to consider the possibility of very elderly, mentally competentindividuals, suffering from a severe medical problem, being allowed to have adoctor-assisted suicide. This is already possible in Switzerland (and, at leastthree Britons, since 2008, have being so helped there). In The Netherlands, theirparliament will be debating this subject later this year.

SOARSIn 2002, the European Court of Human Rights stated - “In an era of growingmedical sophistication, combined with longer life expectancies, many peopleare concerned that they should not be forced to linger on in old age, or in statesof advanced physical or mental decreptitude which conflict with strongly heldideas of self and personal identity”.

In Brighton, on 10 December 2009, the Society for Old Age RationalSuicide was established, in order to begin a national discussion here. Since then,SOARS has commissioned three ICM telephone polls (one was at the request ofBBC Radio Four which, on September 20th, broadcast the results in “Choosing

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a Time to Die”) - each poll has shown a 66% or 67% support for the possibilityof old age rational suicide. With an increasing elderly population, and with evengreater medical possibilities to extend life - without the certainty of a better“quality of life” - this subject will become more and more important. TheSOARS logo is the derelict West pier in Brighton, once a place of greatexcitment and pleasure. The organization’s website is www.soars.org.uk .

NEW ACQUISITIONS TO THE HUMANIST LIBRARYFEBRUARY-MARCH 2011

Cathy Broad, LibrarianAllmon, Warren D. Stephen Jay Gould 2008Almog, Joseph Cogito? 2008Appiah, Kwame Ethics of identity 2007Atkins, Peter On being 2011Battin, Margaret Pabst Ending Life 2005Beiser, Frederick Schiller as Philosopher 2008Beller, Steven Antisemitism 2007Benatar, David Better Never to Have Been 2006Cohen, Chapman Did Jesus Christ exist? 2011Cohen, Cynthia B. Renewing the Stuff of Life 2007Cooper, David E. The Measure of Things 2007Cuneo, Terence The Normative Web 2007Dawkins, Richard Climbing Mount Improbable 2006Dawson, Angus Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health 2007de Sousa, Ronald Why Think? 2007Diamond, Jared The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee 1992Ehrenfeld, David Becoming Good Ancestors 2008Ferngren, Gary B. Science and religion 2002Fleurbaey, Marc Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare 2008Fodor, Jerry What Darwin got wrong 2011Fortey, Richard Dry store room no. 1 2008Frank, Adam The constant fire 2010Gardiner, Stephen Climate ethics 2010Hannam, James God’s philosophers 2010Hardin, Russell David Hume: Moral and Political Theorist 2007Harré, Rom Pavlov’s Dogs and Schrödinger’s Cat 2009Juergensmeyer, Mark Religion in Global Civil Society 2005Kekes, John Enjoyment 2008Kitcher, Philip Living with Darwin 2007Kohli, Surindar Singh Sikh ethics 1975Kohn, Marek Trust 2009Law, Stephen Humanism (VSI) 2011Lovegrove, Roger Silent Fields 2008Lynas, Mark High tide 2005Lynas, Mark Six degrees 2008Macklem, Timothy Independence of Mind 2008Osborne, Catherine Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers 2009Rogers, Ben Is nothing sacred? 2004Shafer-Landau, Russ Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? 2003Smith, Charles H. Natural Selection and Beyond 2008Stray, Christopher Gilbert Murray Reassessed 2008Thorpe, T.E. Humphry Davy: poet and philosopher 2007Warnock, Mary Easeful Death 2009Ethical Record, May 2011 5

VIEWPOINTSInform Yourself Before ActingCan one sympathise with those who joined the peaceful protest againstgovernment cuts in London on 26 March? Of course informed political debateshould be welcomed, and we should all be entitled to peaceful demonstration insupport of our ideals, but how far are we obliged to inform ourselves before weact? Many of us feel that we do not have a clear understanding of the economicissues involved, and so would not take part in such an event, yet in our highlyspecialised society it is often the case that we need to form a view, and cast avote, on matters of which we have little knowledge. How many people can givea quick answer to some of the most basic questions of economics e.g. ‘How isGross Domestic Product (GDP) defined?’ and ‘What percentage of governmentexpenditure is borrowed?’ and ‘What is the total of government debt?’ Are weentitled to form a view, or express an opinion before we have answers?

Fortunately we have the internet and one finds that the simplest definitionof GDP is as a total of Consumption + Investment + Government expenditure(sometimes excluding transfer payments) plus net Exports (after deductingimports). That definition can be found on many websites (see e.g.moneyterms.co.uk or ehow.co.uk).

As to the deficit of government income against expenditure, the Guardianhelpfully published a pie chart in its budget supplement of 24 March showingproposed expenditure of £711 billion, a 2% increase on 2010, against a totalincome of £589bn., leaving a balance of £122bn, which is 20.75% of the total, tobe borrowed. That borrowing will be added to the existing national debt, makinga total in excess of £1.1 trillion (a trillion is a million million) by the end of thefinancial year, and this will go on rising every year until the deficit is wiped out.

When it comes to calculation of the total national debt, the figure shownon the debt clock on debtbombshell.com is £967,474,852,417 on 14 April 2011,and rising so fast that the figure is almost impossible to copy. That figure doesnot include the costs of bail-out of the banks. Perhaps an even more importantfigure is projected on ukpublicspending.co.uk for net debt in 2014, by whichtime the coalition hopes to stop adding to it, and that figure is £1.35 trillion. Thisrepresents a liability of £47,137 per household (26.2mn households) and ifinterest rates were to return to a normal 5% the annual cost would amount to£2,356 per household. If the bond markets were to lose confidence in the UKthen interest rates could be twice as high (12.86% for Greece today).

The Guardian chart shows debt interest payments for 2011/12 of £50bn,and this amounts to £1,908 p.a. per household. If that is not scary enough thenconsider the total debt within the country, after adding together governmentdebt, bank debt, other business debt, and personal debt, plus un-fundedgovernment liabilities. In their book Endgame (Wiley, 2011), John Mauldin andJonathan Tepper put that total at $15tr., which they say amounts to $250,000 forevery man woman and child in the country. One can look askance at theirfigures, e.g. are bank deposits included within the bank debt figures, and whatabout the asset side of the balance sheet? But the general picture is clear.

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Choices Lie Between Dreadful And Worse So what choices do we have? Mauldin and Tepper take the view that there areno good choices for the UK and many other heavily indebted countries; we areall too far gone in debt for that. We have to choose between dreadful and worse.The option chosen by the coalition is austerity, and it can be argued that theyhave opted for the minimum austerity that will enable us to stay on the tightrope.However, as Jennifer Jeynes has implied (Viewpoints, ER April 2011) there hasbeen a remarkable lack of any attempt to engender a sense of fairness, and thatdespite the 50% top tax rate, and the bank windfall tax.

It is not fanciful to foresee a scenario of street protests escalating to civildisobedience and violence, followed by international loss of confidence in UKgovernment bonds, leading to steeply rising interest rates, bankruptcy ofbusinesses and mortgage borrowers, massive unemployment, falling assetvalues, and failing banks.

What would need to be done to remove the sense of injustice? It is alwaysundesirable to impose retrospective legislation, as that undermines the rule oflaw, but is there no scope for action for negligence against bank directors whohave damaged the interests of their employers? Or any cases where fraud can beproved? Or regulatory infringements? What about legislation to discouragedirectors of public companies who claim pay that is an unreasonable multiple ofthe average wage? Why do we not have legislation that limits certain otherincentives to arrangements that align the interests of directors with the interestsof shareholders in the medium or long term?

Jim Tazewell - Minehead, Somerset Monarch Or President?Many of us will have some sympathy in principle with Jennifer Jeynes’intellectual approach to abolishing the monarchy (Viewpoints, ER April 2011).However, would any change be for the better? Our Monarch may be lesscontroversial than President Thatcher or Blair.* Also, in terms of the democraticvote, there may be a majority in favour of ‘bread and circuses’ rather than thehard-nosed unromantic dissection of what is wrong with our present system.

Of course I agree that financially at this difficult time we are certainly not‘all in this together’ but a fundamental change to society will be needed to dealwith this; abolishing the Crown is not going to change capitalism. I suggest thatwhen the wedding is over – having been viewed around the world – popularreaction will give us a better idea of the demand for a Republic.

All this of course has little relevance to voting in favour of AV, which iscertainly a more democratic system.

Don Langdown – Orpington, Kent* Blair would not accept nomination for President as it would mean his givingup his lucrative directorships and lectureships.{Ed.}

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The views expressed in this Journal are not necessarily those of the Society.

Vote For The AV SystemI would like to support the remarks about AV by Jennifer Jeynes (Viewpoints,ER April 2011). Today I posted my vote on the referendum. I voted in favour ofthe proposed AV system because, although not perfect, it is, I believe, a definitestep forward. I urge those readers who want a more representative system to votein favour of AV on the 5th May.

Beatrice Feder – South HampsteadA Census ProblemMany sensible points were made in Jennifer Jeynes letter on What counts?Census day (Viewpoints, ER April 2011). I agree with most of what she says butI want to pick up one or two points. The question I had most difficulty with was“what is your religion?” Anybody with a Jewish background will have difficultywith this question. In Germany if they had a census before the Hitler regimewhere they were asked this innocent question, this may have landed them withbeing identified and sent to the gas chambers. Who knows what kind ofgovernment we might have in the future which looks at the census forms andsees who was Jewish, who was gay, what ethnicity? I thought for a long timeabout this. Should I put Jewish or Humanist? (which is not a religion) or shouldI put no religion, which I did in the end, although I felt I was betraying myJewish past?

Do people know that the contract to gather the data for this census has beenwon by Lockheed Martin Corporation of Maryland USA, the world’s largestweapons manufacturers? They make Trident and nuclear missiles. They areworking in intelligence and surveillance and data collection. The UK Office ofNational Statistics claims that our data is safe. This raises so many concerns;why not an English firm and why a weapons manufacturer? How safe is ourdata?

The royal wedding may help to distract us from the economic problemsand the solutions to them being made by the present Conservative /Libgovernment. No-one voted for these things. GPs having financial control of thehealth service? They are trained in medicine, not accountancy. Opting out andrunning your own school? University - enormous fees?

I think, rather cynically, about the people in the Arab countries protestingto overthrow their despots and wanting democracies like ours. They think theywill have a say in what happens! They are dying for this belief, yet how muchsay in our democracy have we in whether we should be fighting in Afghanistanand Iraq? As for the cuts, most people are against them but parliament is for it.On the question of AV or First-past-the-post, neither alternative is desirable andthere is no third offer. All you can do is not vote in the referendum or wonderabout AV, which people find difficult to understand.

Dorothy Forsyth - Eastbourn

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TOM FORSYTH (1920-1911)TOM FORSYTH died in Eastbourne, East Sussex on 17 January 2011 and wascremated at Langney Crematorium. He had not left any instructions for hisfuneral. He was agnostic, but could not believe that the universe had happenedby chance. His funeral was, therefore, a compromise between his Methodistupbringing and Humanism. Tom had a fascination, from childhood, with howthings work. He studied to become a Chartered Engineer and moved down toLondon at the age of 25 to work as an Engineer/Surveyor.

London opened up a world of new experiences for the Cumbrian lad and,away from home, following a rigorous Methodist upbringing, Tom underwentpsychoanalysis at the Tavistock Clinic with Dr. John Kelnar. Dr. Kelnar’sinfluence was such that Tom was to train as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

Tom became a member of the Progressive League, an organisation set upin 1932 by such notables as H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and Professor Cyril Joadwho were, at that time, alarmed by the rising domestic influence of fascism asmanifested by the attacks on civil liberties. The Progressive League wasinvolved in the formation of the National Council of Civil Liberties, now knownas Liberty, and the Abortion Law Association, now Abortion Rights.

Tom became chair of the Psychology Group within the league, gave talkson psychoanalysis, and it was through participation in its activities that he wasto meet his wife, Dorothy (a member of SPES since 1948 and a Chair of theProgressive League). It was Dorothy who drew her husband’s attention to alecture being given by the late Lionel Monteith with whom he had lost touch.Tom attended the lecture and, speaking afterwards with Monteith, heard of hisplans to start up a clinic. The result was that the two of them formed the LincolnClinic and Institute of Psychotherapy, Tom’s subsequent estimation being that hehad provided 42,000 hours of analysis. He once wrote, “I am meant to be in thiswork, and that sustains me.”

He was of the opinion that his greatest life achievement was being afounder member of the Lincoln Clinic, the purpose of which was to providetherapy for people of limited means who were emotional slaves. The title‘Lincoln Clinic’, was chosen because of Abraham Lincoln’s association with thefreedom of slavery.

But despite Tom’s thirst for work, he enjoyed many leisure interests. Heread widely, particularly on science, religion and philosophy. He was interestedin astronomy, poetry and photography and even enjoyed country dancing (formany years with the PL in the Conway Hall Library). Tom often attendedSunday morning lectures at Conway Hall and the annual reunions Some yearsago he gave a talk to the Ethical Society.

He travelled widely and shared with his wife, Dorothy, enjoyment of theworks of Wagner, on one occasion visiting the Wagner Festival at Bayreuth.Tom Forsyth is survived by his wife, Dorothy and two stepchildren.

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CENTRE FOR INQUIRY/ ETHICAL SOCIETY JOINT EVENTDOES SCIENCE SUPPORT BELIEF IN GOD?

Richard Swinburne (Oxford, Christian) v. Herman Philipse (Utrecht, Atheist)Chair: Stephen Law (CFI)

1900 Tuesday 10 May 2011. Admission £3 (students £2) on the door.