As someone who watched his mother in law go from a fun loving 9 1/2 stones person to a crippled woman weighing just 3 1/2 stones, begging for release from her pain I find myself very close to the issues here.
She tried to end her life with a cocktail of morphine and diazapan but woke again in the morning only to ask "Why did that not work?"
She died naturally in her sleep 2 weeks later.
My father in law,my wife and her sister were pleaded with to help her end it all.
Even her doctor said if anything was "to happen" he would make sure there was no post mortem.
Fortunately she lived long enough to see her only grandchild born.
My heart goes out to the family here. It is a shame that a lot of the argument and conjecture here is made without full knowledge of the facts.
Sorry Damien... I don't find your sig. funny.... esp. when you join a thread such as this m8.