[candy1567]

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