Assisted suicide for terminally ill document

BBC NEWS | UK | England | North Yorkshire | Wife defends suicide documentary

I guess there´s been alot of talk in the UK about this?!

 

Better to go away of one's own free will than be forced to stay alive connected to a machine suffering hell on earth not to mention what happens to relatives. Better to switch off the machine when the patient is asleep or inconscious. Ethics is not prolonging suffering with no hope of improvement. Not to mention the catastrophic expense.

I know this at first hand on two instances.

 

indeed,a young paralized lad near my old home town of chippenham,refused any treatment for his diabeties.he died in 1997 aged approx 18.cheers.

 

It so irritates me of the fuss made in England about this programme. I watched it some time ago and must say it is an excellent coverage.

Why do the British react so hysterically to these sort of things? Is it their ghastly newspapers perhaps? Or their long streak of Puritanism?

 

Here in Montana, the same issue is making the news. We would be the third state in the Union to allow physician assisted suicide if the ruling by a district judge survives appeals.

See:

Judge rules Montana residents have right to assisted suicide; state says appeal likely -- Newsday.com

and:

Montana judge rules in favor of assisted suicide | greatfallstribune.com | Great Falls Tribune

and:

Montana has right to die for terminally ill | Spero News

Sadly for Robert Baxter; "The man at the heart of a legal battle in Montana to make it the third state to allow assisted suicide has passed away. Robert Baxter, a Billings resident, filed a lawsuit with the help of a prominent euthanasia group arguing that the state's privacy clause in its constitution allows him a right to assisted suicide."

He went to sleep the night before the ruling, and never awoke. I personally feel that situations which come into this are both "touchy", and sometimes hard to define if a person doesn't do so while still legally "competent" to make those types of decisions.

If that requirement is met, I myself see no reason the person cannot make his/her decision and have it honored.

 

The documentary did make reference to other places that support euthanasia. It was legal in Australia for a brief time until the Roman Catholics in the Cabinet stepped in. They were led by an odious little man name of Andrews.

People here need to know that one just doesn't turn up at the Swiss clinic and say you've decided to die. The Swiss have a long and impressive set of rules that must be met.

For instance the man's wife expressed the wish to die with him as she couldn't imagine life without him. She was turned down.