Assisted suicide right or wrong
 

www.thesun.co.uk I refer to an article that was in The Sun and on Tv news concerning a British woman, that had to go abroad to commit suicide due to her illness.

And the person that appeared on Tv to say it was wrong and that she should have allowed the disease to go the full way for death.

The woman had Lung and Liver cancer, and due to the ignorance of politicians that won't allow this to be carried out in this country.

Words fail me on this subject, as if it is shown and proven that you will suffer death due to your illness, and you do not have the will to live, due to pain, then you should have that right to end your life - but in law you cannot do it.

There are many people who want to decide that the pain is so bad, that they cannot cope anymore, so that there decision is the end.

I have seen many people in my life that they cannot cope, but cannot do anything about it due to the law. I don't know what many members believe in, I feel that if anyone feels that this is the only way of going, then they should be allowed to do it, and not have to go abroad to do it.:(

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I think it should be allowed.

Obviously you have to be very careful and in todays blame culture, especially so.

But if I was unfortunate enough to find myself in those circumstances, I would want to leave this world on my terms and leave my family with the right memories.

I speak from personal experience as someone who lost his father to lung cancer whilst I was still a child, when he passed he was not how I would like to remember him.

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I have always said we should have this law in place. We should have the right to assistance from loved ones or medical practitioners should there be a medical reason to end your life.

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Assisted Suicide should be allowed provided there are the necessary checks and procedures in place.

It's a no-brainer for anybody who has had to witness a loved one fade away, losing life and losing dignity.

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l have to agree with a lot of what you said orovided everything is done the right and proper way.

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I have,

It took 4 months of watching my father slowly lose his ability to speak, recognise his family and to control his bodily functions because of a stroke, He finally found peace because of pneumonia :(

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When l lost my father some 45 years ago, this idea was never thought of, but he was suffering cancer, and to see him at the end in such a bad way, l firmly believe that he would have asked that question.

To keep him alive, he was on at least 15 tablets per day, and to see him popping those things, always made us sad.

He was that bad when he was passing, the hospice gave him a drug to kill the pain, there are many people today that are in the same position, and it should not be politician that should decide what happens.

Politicians set the laws of this country, and they should change it, so that if TWO doctors decide there is no medical power that will keep that person alive, then it should be the person plus the family that should decide.

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should be allowed ,but knowing our governments if they ever get around to debating this and passing laws to allow it,it will be poorly regulated and mis managed .At the moment i think they should allow people to acompany relatives abroard to established clinics without fear of prosecution as a starter

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The state has no right to force people who want to die to live.

We should have properly regulated ways to do this similar to how Dignitas do it.

http://www.dignitas.ch/index.php?opt...mid=60&lang=en

Substantial checks and balances, and the person must be able to administer themselves the dose through a glass of water.

If done in this manner I've absolutely no issues with it, obviously there must be this level of substantial checks and balances.

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It should be a human right. There is no dignified way of dying with many illnesses.

We kowtow to the human rights of the despised paedophiles and other prisoners yet we can't allow good and decent people, what should be a basic human right, of dying with dignity.

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I have done so now on 5 occasions ( grandfather father close family friend my father in law and grandfather in law )and I still don’t think this should be brought into law

as it stands very few get taken to court and those that do in the vast majority of cases are let off with minimal or no sentence BUT that check is needed

It would be far too easy for unscrupulous family members to persuade elderly relatives that this is what they should do

I would make an exception if the person helping was willing to forgo any financial gain they would gain through the persons passing



Also I would do is make it harder for people to complain about a Doctor giving pain relief that may in the course of reliving pain cause death which imho is why this subject is being brought forward more often now

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although i agree in principal with assisted suicide, and i would want the right to be able to do this should the need arise with myself, i have experienced this from the other side of the coin.

A few years ago i lost my youngest child to bone cancer she was 9yrs old, and it was a slow horrible painful death that took 5 months to take her life, after her last chemo treatment.

Even now i really dont know how my family and I got through it, but i can honestly say that i dont think that i could have given the consent to end her life, mind u i say that now but most prob at the time i would have done.

But where do u draw the line, there are so many different variations on how illness effects individuals and how ppl cope with them, and we all have different perceptions of wat a quality of life is. I would be mortified if my brain was active but my body ceased to function, but there are many who live like this on a day to day basis.

Wat i dont agree with is having to go to court and a judge who is a stranger and knows nothing of the situation will make a ruling as to whether u live or die, using evidence from medical professionals who have taken an oath to save lives, regardless of the patients wishes.

The point am trying to make is that ppl should have a choice.

Juliex

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If Dignitas is the benchmark I'm against it.

Scores of urns containing human ashes have been found dumped in a lake near the Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas.

One estimate puts the number discovered 30ft down on the bed of Lake Zurich at 300 or more.

Very dignified, what ever the reason and I wonder how long it'll be before we have the depressed being put down like in Holland or Switzerland.

Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas is under investigation over claims that it ignored a patient's distressed mental condition to give him drugs to end his own life.

Strict assisted suicide laws in Switzerland state that each patient must be of sound mind and able to understand the consequences of their actions.

But now details have emerged of a patient who was allegedly given a DIY suicide kit prescribed by a Zurich gynaeologist despite suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...icide-kit.html

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Just as well I was referring to those specific checks and balances rather than holding the entire clinic and everything it does up as an example.

So long as those are followed all is, in my opinion, fine.

Errors, omissions and outright failures accepted.

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I can't speak for Switzerland, but I'd be very surprised if you could come up with a credible example of depressed people being 'put down' in Holland.