General Chat

I too think that people should have the right to end their own lives comfortably and safely, if and when they chose. I just feel uneasy that some people are making a living by killing other people.

I would really hope that if I felt that I needed to end my own life, I could do so without involving my family/children in the act.
After all they would have to live the rest of their lives knowing they had killed. (even if it is with permission).
Of course I would want to be able to end my life without too much pain, and admit that I don't know the right way to achieve this at the moment.

I also feel every sympathy for anyone who has helped another person they know, in their wish to die, I don't see them as evil or criminal. Just feel sorry that they carry this burden for the rest of their lives.

t

I am completely in favour of people who want to end their lives being able to do so safely and cleanly and with those they love around them. I think it's very sad that at this point in time, only those who can afford to travel abroad for this can get it.

thanks for your views all

Mum has no quality of life anymore, she wanders about in her own confused and sometimes very frightened bubble thanks to advanced Alzheimers disease.

However much it distresses me to see her like this, I am against assisted suicide................I could never be the one to deliberately end her life.

I love her too much for that.

Mac get back here

I think the Swiss clinic is only able to make money because the need is there and other countries, ours included have no system of help to those who are so at the end of their tether that they really want to die.

However I am sure it is not a blanket yes or no, each case is different and, in the main, those that have made the news going to the Swiss clinic I can understand where they are coming from.

Mac pm me if you need a chat mate

I feel very uncomfortable about the thought of assisted suicide.

Especially the clinic in Swizerland, where they get paid for killing people!

Having said that, I believe that there is a world of difference between what they do at the Swiss clinic, and giving people that are in dreadful pain (AND terminally ill), enough pain killer to make them able to cope ..... even if this does mean that they get an overdose.

T

lol how are you Mac

sorry mac i deleted it

thanks all

its not a subject
i feel qualified to make a judgement on

Who makes the decision that they are of sound mind if they are crazed with pain - or depressed? An independent board of professionals? The family? If the family then who would oversee the decision to make sure they weren't just after the inheritance? I know how hard it is to sit by the side of someone who is dying - I was exhausted and emotional and in no fit state to make any decision and my father was in the depths of dementia and begging us to let him go.

Sue

It is a difficult thing to actually say for or against, as has been said it depends on each individual case.

I have spent many hours sitting next to a hospital bed, knowing that the person whose hand was holding would never get out of that bed again.

In my late mother in laws case, she was in pain & asking me to help her … all I could do was hold her hand & ask nursing staff for more pain relief for her … she died & because there was not a ‘No resuscitation’ sticker on her notes they brought her back to suffer for another week! … At the end of visiting I would sit in my car & pray for her to be beyond that pain … it would not have been easy for me to have helped her on her way, but it would have saved her from all those hours & weeks of pain.

Please God I am never in the position to have an opinion.

I totally agree with it.My Mum asked me several times to help her die.

i agree with it xxx

I wouldn't like to generalise. Each case has its own story. I am not 'strictly against it'. I do think that the desire to end it all might come from depression, which might be possible to treat, but if enough people are involved and agree that it would be for the best - then, why not?

I realy dont know on this one, I suppose you would have to be in that situation where you would assist or be assisted, and luckly i not in that situation

So my answer at the moment would be no, but you dont know what will happen in the future, then my answer could be yes

Too complex and emotive a subject to say "yes I agree" or "no I don't agree".

Sue