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I believe that sort of thing happens many times everyday up and down the country,,it gets to a stage with morphine were the doctors know the likelihood is the dose will kill the patient but in terms of pain control there isn't another option

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Pneumonia, though while I'm not an expert I don't think it's a great leap to suppose the fact he started refusing food and drink after last week's judgement won't have helped.

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Yeah, The BBC has confirmed that.

I dunno,i dont want to step on anyones toes here but i think its wrong to try and force someone to stay IF THEY DONT WANT TO!!

I really feel aweful for this poor guy :(

WHY IS SUICIDE FROWNED UPON?? -- I honestly dont know... If someone wants to leave,LET THEM!!


I dunno,alot of things as of late bothering me,i dont wanna say too much on this thread..

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suicide isn't.......... assisted suicide is and that is what it was all about ,he went to court to get the law to allow a doctor to assist in his death

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Suicide used to be illegal didn't it, iirc there we're harsh penalties if you tried but failed to off oneself

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It was ,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Act_1961

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The new health minister has called the laws on assisted suicide ridiculous, if I was feeling mischievous I'd say it was yet another government initiative to get people of incapacity benefit

http://news.sky.com/story/982464/new...s-right-to-die

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I'd say that Dave has had a rare fit of common sense in his choice of appointment...

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Nope. The comments have been backed away from.

At least have the debate, see what the country thinks, then allow a free vote in Parliament. It's not hard. The Government doesn't always have to be 'for' or 'against' something.

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quite agree ,and aren't ministers supposed to be put in place because of their own views on matters such as health,transport,defence,etc ,so they mirror the governments stance

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We are long overdue discussing this openly in the UK and i think it is getting to the point where if it doesn't happen more people will just view it as spinelessness on the part of government. You don't have to be in favour to initiate a debate as long as your prepared to go with the majority at the end of the debate. Maybe thats the problem too many are in favour of some form of assissted suicide and this government doesn't want to have to try and legislate for it given the gauranteed objections of numerous religious organisations\groups.

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I'd suggest not having the debate, I think we have it just about right at the moment leaving it to the courts to decide, the burden is with the police to prove they stood to/ did it for financial gain or whether its in the public interest to proceed, politicians getting involved usually makes things worse not better

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What's 'just about right' about people having to go abroad to end their suffering.

We treat animals better than humans in this area, and it's high time we do something about it.

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What's right about having the lonely and depressed ending their suffering as happens in other countries, our judicial system is very lenient towards people in this situation on the whole so why not let them carry on.