Right to die, right to live, and prejudices

I don't want the carers in the old people's home giving me long hard stares when I'm being a pain in the bum.

I'd know just what they'd be thinking.

Seriously, I think it would be a retrograde step in the treatment of old people.

I wonder if I might just go off track for a little? There is another side to this, a friend whose daughter had learning difficulties, not severe, but bad enough to need constant supervision, was found to have stomach cancer which was at a stage when it could be treated. Because it was appreciated she could understand what was happening, it was necessary for her to sign the consent form for an operation - she was of that age - but refused to do so on several occasions, and eventually died. I have been told there was nothing that could be done about her refusal, but I am not absolutely sure on the fact. I do know however that she was a very determined young lady, and quite aggressive on occasions.

Thanks you for that story, printmiss. I don't think it's off track at all. She made her choice and that choice had to be accepted whatever anyone else thought.

Life is precious and beautiful a gift but the moral debate of allowing people with severe terminal illness or disability the right to die if they so wish is hypocritical. The Church sees no problem with able bodied young people who wish to offer their lives (which may mean to give up their life) for queen and country. Indeed it honours such sacrifice. Equally are they not comapaining to prevent those who die from addiction (a form of suicide) Indeed they are not campaining for somone not to take their own life if they so can.

Yet when one disperately ill individual asks that they should be helped to die after endless scrutiny of the the individual case they complain on moral grounds. The qulaity and suffering of that individual`s life seems unimportant. Would a loved dog to be allowed suffer in such a way? The excuse that making this legal could be abused does not hold up. It is not rocket science to ensure each case is considered on it own merit.

Just found this from Tony Nicklinsons Daughter

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/16/tony-nicklinson-lauren-daughter-euthanasia

Very moving, thank you.

Yes, a wonderful eulogy that gave us a glimpse of the man he truly was

Thanks, Glass, what a wonderful article. I wish everybody had ignored the miserable, inhumane, nasty, horrible person! Not a good advert for Christianity! And mostly rubbish.

glass Thanks for posting this. I hope the legacy he's left will not be in vain.