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I really have very mixed feelings about this having watched the program and do not think this is right at all.
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Terry Pratchett - Choosing to Die
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Since1982
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Very mixed feelings. My faith says no but I can't condemn those who choose this route. I was struck by the mother of Andrew who said she didnt want to lose him but that it would be selfish to want him to live with his MS. I don't know...
Not his wife. The woman who hugged him was a digntas employee
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
My feelings remain as they were before the programme, that assisted suicide should be the right of the individual, far better that it happens somewhere like Dignitas in a controlled environment than anywhere else. I have already decided that if I suffer from a debilitating illness, such as alzheimers, then that is the route that I would take to end my life. I couldn't bear the thought of an undignified death, surrounded by people who I don't know from Adam. I would much rather end it before I become a burden on anyone else and am no longer capable of caring for myself. I understand that many people will have beliefs that make suicide a sin, for which they may later receive censure, but mine is that everyone should have the right to self-determination.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
I am 64 and wracked with arthritis I have diabetes,heart problems, flirted with the big C.
my mother had Alzheimers and died of a chest infection and was given pain killers but not anti-biotics my father looked after her for 5 years before she was taken into a psychiatric ward(they did not know where to put Alzheimer patients then 1983) and thats where she died, not very dignified not quiet and I'm sure she would have chosen the Dignitas way had she had any choice.
If I have any choice I will go the Dignitas way and it would be in my mind 10k well spent both myself and my other half will never go into a home or a hospital to die if we can help it.
a very commendable programme watched with tears in our eyes ...........................not a good thing to say from a catholic educated lad Eh!
my mother had Alzheimers and died of a chest infection and was given pain killers but not anti-biotics my father looked after her for 5 years before she was taken into a psychiatric ward(they did not know where to put Alzheimer patients then 1983) and thats where she died, not very dignified not quiet and I'm sure she would have chosen the Dignitas way had she had any choice.
If I have any choice I will go the Dignitas way and it would be in my mind 10k well spent both myself and my other half will never go into a home or a hospital to die if we can help it.
a very commendable programme watched with tears in our eyes ...........................not a good thing to say from a catholic educated lad Eh!
Cantona's Flying Dropkick
vidi vici veni
The UK has signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights [and still operational], so why is isn't a right to die [with dignity and help] if you so choose?
To me that's the crux of the matter. I tend to agree with 'The Oldman' above in that I don't think the Dignitas way is for me, I think I'd prefer the hospice route as well; not sure I want to spend my last moments in a death factory on an industrial estate. That said I do think it's a legitimate topic for debate and I would like the law changed (somehow) so that relatives who help loved ones to die can do so without risk of prosecution; after all I would say that your 'right to die' and choosing the time is as fundamental a human right as you can get.
I suppose in some ways it's a bit like the 'legalise drugs' argument in that legalising something that was previously prohibited solves one set of problems and introduces another. It will stop the long-drawn out deaths where the person suffering genuinely 100% wants to end it, but you do stand the chance of the odd granny being bumped off for her inheritance.