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March Your Granny Down The Exterminators And Nick Her House?
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What will Labour not promise to get through the door of no 10?
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He might not be pleased to hear it but i have a great deal of sympathy with ttt... it's all very well to talk about "checks" and stringent rules but the sad fact is that people at the end of their life are very often at the mercy of their family... great for those of us who are lucky enough to have nice families but unfortunatel
11:13 Sat 23rd Dec 2023
Although flippantly phrased, the post poses the problem very succinctly. I'm unsure about the political ramifications. I could not bring myself to vote Labour anyway (or Conservative these days) but it may bring voters.
The moral problem warrants much deeper discussion.
Sir Keir would promise anything, I agree, but he may genuinely believe in 'voluntary euthanasia' . It's the sort of headline- grabber where people see a few hard cases and go 'Awww' and vote for it.
I've just seen my Brother-in-law die horribly and painfully from mesothelioma -- but the pain etc. was due to lousy, truly awful NHS 'care'. I would have welcomed an easier way out for him - but......... others could be coerced.
An easy headlinegrabber for Sir K. i.m.o..
He should put it on the side of a bus.
In all honesty, if I was suffering from an incurable illness and had nothing but a long, lingering death to look forward to, I'd be booking tickets to Switzerland. Your response shows that you're more interested in who delivers the message than the message itself.
I'm all for it! I'm not terminally ill but I'm in constant pain which is making life unbearable and have an incurable condition that could become life threatening. My mobility is getting worse. If I was a cat I could be taken off to the vet. But no, I have to put up with it. I have signed the petition to change the law.
If TTT is worried about his children sending him to the knackers yard to get their hands on his money he's bought them up badly; I have no fear that my daughter would make the right choice for me should the occasion arise. My only concern is that dementia is usually excluded from such decisions, for understandable reasons, but my main fear is becoming a burden for my family and dementia is a prime candidate for that.
I don't agree with abortion - which I view as killing another human life at its start, without its choice - and I do agree with euthanasia - which I view as killing your own human life at its end, with your choice. So my thinking is diametrically opposite to the current law.
It's all about choices: yours and other people's. It would be good in future if people could choose their own life at least as freely as they currently choose other people's lives ...
08:11, then you haven't really read and understood much of my writings. Clearly your own ideals are being superimposed on what you think I mean. I use the example in my OP to represent the innevitable conclusion if we follow this path not because as some seem to suggest I am worried about what my own children will do. One is already far richer than me anyway.
whenever this subject arises I say the same thing. The cases cited are all valid, I support their right to die if they wish. The issue is that across the spectrum of human kind there will always be those that will utilise the law for their own purposes, that is the path we should all fear. Pretty soon the right to die becomes the obligation to die and granny will indeed be getting euthanised because she's in pain from a dodgy hip etc. When any law is framed it is incumbant on us to ask ourselves where it will lead. That is why I'm against it.
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