Re: A Duty To Die?
 

Definitely a toughie ,and just re-inforces the urgent need for further debate in this matter in my opinion

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

I hope they know what they're doing...

Doctors should be allowed to help terminally ill patients kill themselves – but only if they have less than a year to live, under proposals published in a major report today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...r-to-live.html

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

Well it moves the debate on further, which can only be a good thing.

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

A paralysed man who wants a doctor to be able to lawfully end his life can proceed with his "right-to-die" case, a High Court judge has ruled.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17336774

Who'd be a judge eh, certainly not me in this case, although I'm pretty much against "right to die" as explained in detail earlier in the thread I'm not sure it's fair to put people through this disease either.

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

Kevin Boyle, one of Jamie Oliver's original apprentices from his Fifteen restaurant, has been found dead in a garden.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...ound-dead.html

He had been missing for three months, having disappeared on the same day a suicide kit he bought online was delivered to the house.

Patti, 53, said: “It was such an innocent looking package. Just a brown Jiffy bag that weighed next to nothing.

“I thought it was a packet of icing bags for yet another banquet. I didn’t suspect a thing.�

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icide-kit.html

This is so tragic, when I read about the old or terminally ill I accept their points and find it hard to argue them, not quite so hard when it's some one young and healthyish.

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

We'll all be suicidal before the next General Election. ;)

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

I will be if we get millybore and his merry band of spenders back in. :)

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

is it case for parliament or have the courts bottled it ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19249680

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

I must say I feel incredibly sorry for people suffering like this who clearly want to end that suffering. It's not as though he and his loved ones can't articulate how he feels is it...

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

i know he cried his eyes out when he got the news :(

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

I shed a tear or two with him. It's a quite awful situation to be in and the problem needs to be resolved.

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

The Courts haven't "bottled" anything - they do not make the Law in this country. Our elected representatives in Parliament do. All the Courts should ever do is make rulings on how the Law as it stands, applies in various situations. If we ever get to a place where the courts, by their decisions, are acting to change the law, then that is the end of democracy in the UK.

The appellants in this case live in what are obviously tragic circumstances, but one or two people do not have the right to overturn the law to suit themselves, no matter how deserving they feel their situation to be.

The only proper route for achieving what they want is the same democratic means that are open to all of us. They can lobby for a change in the law, which would then be brought about by an Act of Parliament.

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

by who though ,courts or parliament ,i think the latter as it's a matter that society has to deal with

Re: A Duty To Die?
 

Chris while i get what your saying and no the court couldn't change the law they could have said whether they felt a change needs to be considered. I still think it is disgusting in this day and age that we make people live with illness that if it were an animal we would be looked upon badly if we didn't have it put down. As long as it is clear it is the wish of the individual themself and not an agenda by family or friends people should damn well have the right to choose their time to go with dignity.