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This is such an important topic which will affect some of us later in life or at some stage..
There are too few ' success stories ' in the right to die with many governments around the globe being reluctant to pass laws on righ to die..which is understandable due to possible abuses by family members etc..
It's a sad state when we hear of youg people like the young rugby player paralyzed from the neck down in an accident having to take his ' last flight ever ' to his place of death at Dignitas in Switzerland...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/majorne ... arges.html
That young lad had no quality of life left and that is what he truly wanted..who is anyone to deny him?
Who despite what some say, are a saviour to the suffering.
Who is anyone to try to dictate to those suffering in pain , discomfort & anguish every day of their remainder of life?
It really gets me when religious people especially say thoughtless , ignorant and disrespectful things about how 'God' wouldn't want this..that's the last thing a dying person needs, or most anyway..people telling them it's a sin to end your own life.
Just ridiculous.
And as for hospitals here in the UK, they still used the Liverpool pathway until two years ago anyway, probably still do even though they claim it's being fizzled out..
The dying are refused water and food, now I understand most can't eat anyway, but the option should still be there..to deny them water apparently ' helps ' ,it hastens death apparently but it also means patients endure more discomfort.
While the pathway might have been suited to some, it's not for everyone and to deny a basic thing like water is a disgrace.
What we also need to rememner are the efforts of those who over the years have tried and in some cases briefly succeeded in fighting for terminally ill people's right to die like Derek Humphrey..author of 'final exit 'who was respected by some but loathed vilified by others.
What are your thoughts on the right to die?
There are too few ' success stories ' in the right to die with many governments around the globe being reluctant to pass laws on righ to die..which is understandable due to possible abuses by family members etc..
It's a sad state when we hear of youg people like the young rugby player paralyzed from the neck down in an accident having to take his ' last flight ever ' to his place of death at Dignitas in Switzerland...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/majorne ... arges.html
That young lad had no quality of life left and that is what he truly wanted..who is anyone to deny him?
Who despite what some say, are a saviour to the suffering.
Who is anyone to try to dictate to those suffering in pain , discomfort & anguish every day of their remainder of life?
It really gets me when religious people especially say thoughtless , ignorant and disrespectful things about how 'God' wouldn't want this..that's the last thing a dying person needs, or most anyway..people telling them it's a sin to end your own life.
Just ridiculous.
And as for hospitals here in the UK, they still used the Liverpool pathway until two years ago anyway, probably still do even though they claim it's being fizzled out..
The dying are refused water and food, now I understand most can't eat anyway, but the option should still be there..to deny them water apparently ' helps ' ,it hastens death apparently but it also means patients endure more discomfort.
While the pathway might have been suited to some, it's not for everyone and to deny a basic thing like water is a disgrace.
What we also need to rememner are the efforts of those who over the years have tried and in some cases briefly succeeded in fighting for terminally ill people's right to die like Derek Humphrey..author of 'final exit 'who was respected by some but loathed vilified by others.
What are your thoughts on the right to die?
