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| Topic Started: Feb 16 2010, 01:24 PM (213 Views) | |
| 1966 | Feb 16 2010, 01:24 PM Post #1 |
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Its come to light in the press this morning that award winning journalist Ray Gosling assisted his partners death. His partner, was suffering from aids and on deaths door. Gosling smothered him with a pillow in his hospital bed. In January, Kay Gilderdale from East Sussex was cleared in court of the attempted murder of her severely ill daughter Lynn who had ME. A few days earlier, Frances Inglis from east London was jailed for nine years for murder after injecting her brain-damaged son Tom with a lethal dose of heroin. What are your thoughts on assisted suicide? |
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| mumanc | Feb 16 2010, 01:35 PM Post #2 |
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dont know about smothering them,but if there partner was terminally ill,shouldnt they be allowed a bit of dignity how they go. |
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| 1966 | Feb 16 2010, 01:43 PM Post #3 |
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I think so yeh. For terminally ill cases, i think the peron should have a choice to be able to take their life. We put down animals that are suffering but humans have to fight for a few weeks/months in agony. |
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| stacie | Feb 16 2010, 01:43 PM Post #4 |
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I'm swaying on the side of allowing it, but only if there's no hope of improving the person's physical condition. The only thing that worries me is that you'll never really know if it was really what they wanted, there's no guarantee that they have the mental capacity to make that decision. Also, you don't know if that person will become more positive in coming days or if some doctor or scientist somewhere is on the verge of a breakthrough to give them help. |
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| ECO | Feb 16 2010, 01:54 PM Post #5 |
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if somebody is termianlly ill they should be allowed to kill themselves |
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| flakmcfc | Feb 16 2010, 06:06 PM Post #6 |
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I think the problem is that they are that ill, they can't possibly do it themselves. So it's really down to their loved ones to make the decision and do it for them (assisted suicide). The trouble is that is it right somebody else makes the decision to end another life? Perhaps they talked about it in the past before the person got ill and said "if i'm ever in that condition, kill me because I wouldn't want to live like that and for you to see me in that kind of condition" but UK laws don't allow that. |
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| The Sicilian | Feb 17 2010, 12:57 AM Post #7 |
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If they are in the mental state to decide then they should be allowed to make that choice. Or if you are dying of cancer and the pain outweighs the few months you may live should you not have the right to die? I personally think it should be allowed in a totally humane way, not smothering like ^^^^ but like an injection which animals receive, be able to drift into an everlasting sleep. |
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| irishredlady | Feb 17 2010, 06:43 PM Post #8 |
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Agree, recently seen my cousins wife pass away from cancer and she had a horrible final 2 weeks, what he woiuldnt have done to take the pain away  Takes a brave person to help someone like this, the before, the actual act and the repucussions |
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| irishredlady | Feb 25 2010, 09:33 AM Post #9 |
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Law Clarified On Helping A Loved One To Die Families who help loved ones to die are to get clear legal advice on how to avoid prosecution. The Director of Public Prosecutions will issue guidelines on how he judges whether or not there is a public interest in charging someone with assisting suicide. Helping someone to take their own life carries a maximum jail sentence of 14 years. But although 134 Britons have travelled to the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland, no relatives or friends have ever been prosecuted for assisting them. Legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg said: "It ought to be possible for most people to look at what they have done, or what they are considering doing, and work out how much they risk a prosecution." It will be the first time that such detailed guidelines have been issued for a specific offence. And it follows a landmark legal victory for Debbie Purdy, a multiple sclerosis sufferer who wanted to be sure that her husband would not be charged if he helped her travel to the clinic. But GP Dr Ann McPherson says the guidelines do not go far enough. She has terminal cancer and wants the law changed so doctors can assist death, rather than leaving it to relatives who may botch a suicide. "It's difficult to know how to assist a death," she said. "It's difficult to know which drugs to use to make sure it is a good death. "Relatives will find it more difficult than a doctor will." The DPP's guidelines are expected to confirm draft advice Debbie Purdy's husband, Omar Puente, issued in response to her case. To escape prosecution the person assisting a suicide must be acting out of compassion and must be a close relative or friend More |
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| RN#1 | Feb 25 2010, 10:00 AM Post #10 |
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Interesting read, it would take quite a strong person though to be able to help a loved one pass away imo so there may not be many cases of it |
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| ECO | Feb 25 2010, 06:44 PM Post #11 |
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well if any of my family was termillay ill i would love to b able to let them pass |
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| norwichnutta | Feb 25 2010, 06:57 PM Post #12 |
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me personally if i was terminally ill i'd like to have as much fun as i can and then go out - waiting to die just wouldn't suit me
Edited by norwichnutta, Feb 25 2010, 06:57 PM.
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