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Do you agree with euthanasia?
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I really do.
I think most of our elderly people have to go through hell before they die.
I think most of our elderly people have to go through hell before they die.
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But after things have been done and they feel they really would be better off if they died then yes
It'll come, even to this country. As with most things in Britain, we won't do the right thing until and unless every other avenue has been tried first, but I do think that in the long run - maybe not in my lifetime but not much further away - we'll make provision in this way of some sort.
Yes voluntary. But I've worked in old people's homes where people have signed living wills in their seventies saying 'for gods sake don't keep me alive if I get dementia' and we're still keeping them alive, treating their chest infections and changing their pads. Living wills aren't legal. They should be.
It is already possible as long as you don’t mind ‘offing’ yourself earlier than is strictly necessary. You need to be fit enough to travel to get to Switzerland, which probably means that you are wasting a few months of life.
I watched my mother waste away in a hospice; she was terminally ill and only had a few months. She didn’t enjoy the hanging around. I’ve also seen my father in law with advanced dementia, who in his late 80’s is frail and doesn’t know what is going on around him.
Yet there are people who think it’s right that they should remain like this.
Maybe it isn't my place to agree or disagree with it.
I don't know, I guess as long as it was heavily regulated then I can't think of a good enough reason to not allow it.
It is something that should be allowed and families should enter into dialogue in the good times, so that they can prepare, ready for the bad times.
An animal in my grans situation would have been put out of their suffering.
Yes. It's awful people still have to travel to Switzerland.
Well exactly. The British way is still to starve people to death. It's inhuman.
with the aid of a drug/s.. we do it to animals. no question asked.. IF i was told i had a certain time left, and every day would get worse, with pain and suffering. and there was no cure.. I would like to have while still able to, to end my own life.. AND why cannot a dr or a family member just help me to overdose.. if i still have a sane mind to do so..
Couldn't agree more.
They do. You would not do that to an animal.
Two weeks it took my gran to pass. Two weeks of her writhing about, two weeks of being doped up on tranqs and Morphine.
They knew she was going to die, they knew it was a matter of time. They knew there was no hope but to add insult to illness they had to let her and her family suffer it out.
Right, so you imagine that if the UK legalised euthanasia, any Tom, Dick or Arsehole would be allowed to carry it out?
terminally ill patients who get four hourly morphine until they die from it is common practice.
Making a law to allow early death would be abused,I have no doubt about that.
We don't have to wonder about this scenario - we already have several nations and several US states where assisted suicide is legal. We don't have to invent what-ifs: we can actually look at how these territories conduct themselves. So the question becomes a very simple one. Do we see people being murdered left, right and centre?
It wouldn't be that easy it would have to be done by a Doctor and papers signed you couldn't just walk into Granddad's room and bump him off.
A vet can put a animal down no problem but if someone killed their dog because they didn't want it any more they would be getting a call from the RSPCA and maybe some jail time
I found the Terry Prachet documentary very difficult to watch; very depressing and the only posssitive bit I could see was the man in the hospice.
It's so awful and sad. Is there a religious element maybe? We just won't let people die. One of the worst things about the uk.