tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post8871788338500437221..comments2023-07-04T16:57:28.929+01:00Comments on Where's the Benefit?: Euthanasia Kits. Joke or Tragic Truth?Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714918894319998184noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-82782285424470323802011-02-04T00:08:23.725+00:002011-02-04T00:08:23.725+00:00Yes, I'm a strong supporter of the availabilit...Yes, I'm a strong supporter of the availability of legalised assisted suicide. My aunt died recently - she had a returned and now quickly spreading cancer. She had been a great traveller all her life and being trapped in a chair and a morphine drip was, to her, not a life. Not that she had that long to wait. She lived in Washington state where they have humane laws, so she was able to take a physician-prescribed lethal dose of barbiturates. She went in her own time, with family and friends there - and high hopes for the next trip. <br /><br />Which is - as the commenter above noted - not at all the same thing s having those who wish to live being told to die for economic reasons.<br /><br />I wonder what that family meant when she said someone was "unsustainable" - was she proposing to assist in a suicide? I think I would have said, "Well, you get the gun and pull the trigger and I'll do the dying. After all we're all in this together."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-66632675727599011442011-01-27T14:21:32.225+00:002011-01-27T14:21:32.225+00:00The point of this is the euthanasia 'choice...The point of this is the euthanasia 'choice' is being pushed on us by economics. I have a disabled friend who has been told by a member of her own family, that she is unsustainable. The combination of these savage cuts and the horrific demoralising and inflammatory media view of us all as being scroungers, is making life extremely difficult. Many of us have to go through the extremely difficult adjustment of being fit and healthy and then having to stop work, deal with pain, lose partners who cannot cope with our illnesses or disabilites. To overcome alll these hurdles is difficult enough. To then have all this other stuff piled on top and fear the reduction in our benefits will result in homelessness and starvation. This is unfortunately an accurate portrayal of how many of us are feeling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-38858773341761622772011-01-27T14:09:24.375+00:002011-01-27T14:09:24.375+00:00Thank you Stuart excellent job of handling the cal...Thank you Stuart excellent job of handling the call handlers at ATOs especially at the end when she is asking you to put your request in writing.Elisabeth Tealehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03842377373149161329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-27920847723513545092011-01-27T12:51:49.647+00:002011-01-27T12:51:49.647+00:00I have no problem with choice, well set around wit...I have no problem with choice, well set around with fever trees to ensure the choice is genuinely free and pressure isn't brought to bear. Margot MacDonald's proposal to the Scottish Parliament - it was defeated- included the very Roman Law provision that consent had to be given by the disabled person alone, without their family or friends surrounding them, but this was misinterpreted as "sinister" by one commenter.<br /><br />Much depends on method and choice. In CHILDREN OF MEN the film, the "Quietus" provided by the government to the aging population that's gone sterile is a painless pill for home use. In the original novel by PD James the frail and demented elderly who can no longer care for themselves are drugged to the eyeballs and taken to the seaside where they're chained into boats that are then sunk. (Novel is good. Would recommend it.)DeusExMacintoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02728119585120029111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-33399317677703965832011-01-27T08:14:20.297+00:002011-01-27T08:14:20.297+00:00The thing about Stephen Hawking is he was not alwa...The thing about Stephen Hawking is he was not always disabled; he was walking and on the rowing team at his alma mater long before his illness hit. Ergo, he had proven he had the brain the size of a planet and they didn't want to lose him.<br /><br />Personally, and I know it's an unpopular view, but if I reach a certain point I will go for the euthanisation. I know not everyone has such a blase approach to death but I'm more peeved I don't have the option to choose when my time is up than anything else. I don't want to be written off...but at the same time I don't want to be forced to endure when I've had enough.Oya's Daughterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01184649716540468970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-52716071241934865522011-01-26T21:28:08.119+00:002011-01-26T21:28:08.119+00:00Haha, thanks Stuart Wyatt, whoever you are!
Oh wo...Haha, thanks Stuart Wyatt, whoever you are!<br /><br />Oh wow - my captcha was 'ablednes'! Is that you IDS?coldernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-3907323286660259252011-01-26T20:27:52.899+00:002011-01-26T20:27:52.899+00:00I don't want to die :-( I dont want them to de...I don't want to die :-( I dont want them to deem me unimportant just because I am disabled - I mean - Look at Stephen Hawking - He is amazing and yet he is very disabled! Will they euthanise him also?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com