It Appears They Do Have Some Sense, Well Done.

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34208624

[mikey4444]

I am not at all surprised by this outcome, as it has happened before, but I welcome the chance for a debate every now and them. This was always going to be a difficult and controversial issue.

[naomi24]

Disappointing.

[mikey4444]

This issue isn't going to go away anytime soon. It will continue to reappear at regular intervals, and one day the law will change.

[ummmm]

I'm mixed emotions on this subject.

I think it's wrong because able bodied people with 6 months or so to live (like my dad) could have over dosed whenever they felt like it. He had enough morphine in the house to kill an elephant. It's the disabled that has no access to their meds that have to suffer.

[gness]

So.....some of us will still be forced into the sad and difficult option......such a shame.

[woofgang]

It will come but not before many others suffer. Cameron is a coward to support the current "don't ask; don't tell" situation.

[ToraToraTora]

why mikey? the problem is already solved. The issue is that if you want to checkout fine just don't make a song and dance about it and demand the law dish out immunity, like, for example Dianne Pritti.

[woofgang]

Ummm, that's quite an unusual circ your father was in. When my DH was on strong pain meds I had to get prescriptions from the chemist about every 3 to 4 days and had a real panic when the chemist delivery didn't arrive and we almost ran out. Luckily some of his care had been in a local private hospital and his consultant had covered both his private and NHS care so I managed to get a private prescription from the consultant and got it filled the at private hospital.

[woofgang]

The problem is not solved. Its not easy to get hold of the meds to do it without distress and if you try the pills and booze way (assuming you can still swallow) it can and does fail. Families and friends risk the law to assist and the person who should have all the control over the process can end up having none.

[mikey4444]

Well said Woofy !

[naomi24]

I’ve seen many people die lingering and distressing deaths, but the worst by far was one who died of cancer of the oesophagus. To watch someone who couldn’t even swallow her own spittle suffering so, and hearing her tell me she was so hungry broke my heart because there was absolutely nothing I could do to alleviate her anguish. In such circumstances it's wicked to force people who would rather die to continue to live.

[mikey4444]

Naomi...on this issue, we are as one. What a pleasant change !

[naomi24]

It's not a first, Mikey. ;o)

[ummmm]

Woof - it was in the last couple of months of his life. There was loads of vials of morphine in the house. If he'd took them all he would have died. He didn't want to die though.

[anotheoldgit]

Call this a free country, when one cannot have one's life terminated if one wishes.

Amazing when the right to marry between gay couples has no trouble getting through parliament.

[jackthehat]

It is a shame.

It would be nice to think that someone with some 'clout' could present a properly reasoned-out framework to enable this Bill to succeed next time round.

[Sqad]

That's democracy and that is what the UK is all about.......so I'm told.

Not an unexpected result.

[andy-hughes]

Can't agree with you there Tora.

[woofgang]

Ummmm I have seen it but mostly that doesn't happen and the patient would have had to be in pain and hoard the morphine to get enough.

[Old_Geezer]

Another missed opportunity to become a more enlightened nation/culture because those with a vote hadn't the vision and courage to move us forward.