I Don't Want This Man To Die

[hc4361]

I don't know if this has already been discussed here but I think a murderer and rapist sentenced to life imprisonment should not be allowed the right to die. He should have to live with himself for the rest of his natural life and not take the easy route to escaping justice.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/belgian-serial-rapist-murderer-frank-van-den-bleeken-be-euthanised-january-1481742

[RATTER15]

So why should he have the right to choose his own punishment? that is no punishment!!

[ummmm]

He's spent 30 years in prison so he should be allowed to die now.

[EDDIE51]

Belgium along with Holland has one of the most open euthanasia policies in the world. You can choose to die if you have any one of a wide range of illnesses . There is no condition that prisoners can be treated any differently if they ask to die.
UK is totally different, Ian Brady has been pleading to be allowed to die by starving himself for years but he is forceably tube fed so as to keep him alive

[AlwaysConfused]

That's the easy option. I'd make him suffer

[jim360]

If one allows euthanasia, then one should allow it for a criminal. At any rate I'm not sure I agree that his being a criminal, however vile a crime he committed, should make a difference.

[ummmm]

If Ian Brady was in mainstream prison he would be able to starve himself. They sectioned him instead.

[anneasquith]

would be interesting in what the victims family's thought are ?

[pixie373]

For whose benefit, ac?

[ummmm]

It's not as if he's gone unpunished. 30 years is punishment and he refused parole because he's a menace to society. Let him die.

[Retrochic]

no he should not be allowed to die. All choice should be taken away from him. I doubt his motivation for asking to be euthanized has anything to do with remorse, more likely he does not want to suffer the discomfort of spending the rest of his days imprisoned.

[RATTER15]

I think they should allow him to die when all his victims are no longer alive and no longer suffering, as they will continue to suffer from what he done to them, why shouldn't he suffer with them?

[ummmm]

But he refused parole.

[hc4361]

That's exactly how I see it, retrochic.

[hc4361]

ummm, so he says. We don't know that for a fact unless you have found something I haven't.

[pixie373]

Because that won't necessarily make them feel better, ratter.

[-Talbot-]

Surely even in Belgium you need to have a terminal illness to be euthanised?

It should not be allowed just because he is a bit piste off in prison.

[ummmm]

No...just from the article.

[gness]

Neither do I, Hc......

He considers the conditions of his detention unbearable and is being granted the opportunity to change things......given choices he doesn't deserve.

Being at the hands of a rapist is unbearable.........

[hc4361]

Talbot, you don't need to be terminally ill to qualify for euthanasia in Belgium. Examples are a deaf person who was fearful of going blind and a transsexual whose operation was botched. On average 5 people a day are euthanised.

[anotheoldgit]

Not in our country, so no business of ours.