Should assisted dying be legal?

[NotAllThere]

The trick is to frame the law in such a way that it can't be subverted by greedy relatives or by it being too expensive to keep someone alive. It should also be clearly as a last resort - repeated requests etc. There should be no chance of anyone being pressurised into taking this solution.

There's an old adage - difficult cases make bad law. If not done right a law for assisted suicide could end up doing more harm than good.

[BrilloPad]

I think I should have the right to die - but I should be able to choose how I go.

Not sure if I would prefer to go while sh4gging Kylie. Or strapped to a very large bomb in the house of commons while it is sitting.

Maybe both?

[Support Monkey]

How so? Have you had to sit at the bedside of someone you love, watching them slowly starve to death because thats the only way the hospital can honour their own wishes? If you had you would understand that under the system today people are being left in disgraceful pain just because a vocal minority don't have the balls to handle death with the dignity it deserves. hiding behind the point that someone might feel pressured to go early is just crap.
And anyone that says palliative care works I would like to offer them the chance to lay in a bed whacked up with morphine to a point that they cannot scratch their own nose or drink water without help. and have their food withdrawn for a week...

I never said that, I would never want to be in that position myself and would not want to see any of my loved ones like it and if somone wants to commit suicide who are we to question this, the point i was trying to make is the decision to die needs to come from the person themself not from someone else to the point that they can push the button to end it, the problem is the term "assisted", if the gentleman in question can operate the computer to end it all then he should be allowed to do it, the problem comes when somone else other than the patient is making that decison

[Diver]

The trick is to frame the law in such a way that it can't be subverted by greedy relatives or by it being too expensive to keep someone alive. It should also be clearly as a last resort - repeated requests etc. There should be no chance of anyone being pressurised into taking this solution.

There's an old adage - difficult cases make bad law. If not done right a law for assisted suicide could end up doing more harm than good.

+1

and all those sadistic swine who through their misbegotten moral beliefs believe that those people bedridden in constant pain and those screaming in their skulls with locked in syndrome should be left to suffer, should themselves be locked in a sensory deprevation chamber for a year to see how they like it or be lashed to a bed and given the equivalent amount of daily pain being suffered.

Sadistic sicko's

[BrilloPad]

those screaming in their skulls should be locked in a sensory deprevation chamber for a year

It sounds like a fitting punishment for sassy.

[Diver]

It sounds like a fitting punishment for sassy.

He already has locked in syndrome

and what's worse is he thinks all this is real

and as we all know, we are just figments of his imagination

[d000hg]

I think I should have the right to die - but I should be able to choose how I go.

Not sure if I would prefer to go while sh4gging Kylie. Or strapped to a very large bomb in the house of commons while it is sitting.

Maybe both?

You have the right to jump off something. Like a cliff or a sailing yacht 100 miles from shore, preferably so we don't have to be inconvenienced.

[Pogle]

+1

and all those sadistic swine who through their misbegotten moral beliefs believe that those people bedridden in constant pain and those screaming in their skulls with locked in syndrome should be left to suffer, should themselves be locked in a sensory deprevation chamber for a year to see how they like it or be lashed to a bed and given the equivalent amount of daily pain being suffered.

Sadistic sicko's

The piggy agrees, having seen too many family members suffer from long drawn out deaths, with very little dignity and much suffering.

[MarillionFan]

You have the right to jump off something. Like a cliff or a sailing yacht 100 miles from shore, preferably so we don't have to be inconvenienced.

How do you do that if paralysed then? Hold your breath.

[Old Greg]

BBC News - Assisted dying debate: Tony Nicklinson in his own words

Seen this guy on the press, plus his twitter feed was quite interesting. Those who are anti are telling him to hang on in there. He's paralysed from the neck down & has no life.

When the brain is fully working it's a nightmare scenario.

I'd want the option to choose.

A nightmare scenario you need never face.