Posted on 01/18/2009 9:16:06 AM PST by wagglebee
Sophie Pandit breaks into a smile as she recalls a nervous meeting with Julie Walters last summer. The actress plays Sophie’s mother in a new film and they met after Sophie was invited on set during rehearsals. ‘Don’t worry, I won’t do your mum with a Brummie accent,’ Julie had said mischievously, by way of an ice-breaker.
Sophie knew her mother would have approved. Throughout her life, Anne Turner was known for unleashing her wicked sense of humour to diffuse tension in difficult situations. This never stopped, even in the hours before her death.
Last summer, Sophie, 44, herself an actress, her brother Edward, 42, and sister Jessica, 40, were approached by the BBC, who wanted to make a film about their mother’s extraordinary final years of life.
Three years ago next Saturday, Anne Turner, a 66-year-old retired doctor from Bath, made the journey to the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Zurich to take her own life after being diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy – a rare, incurable degenerative condition similar to Parkinson’s that gradually destroys nerve cells in the parts of the brain controlling eye movements, breathing and muscle co-ordination, eventually leading to paralysis, making the sufferer totally reliant on others.
‘This was a future Mum refused to accept and on the day she was diagnosed, she told me of her intention to commit suicide,’ says Sophie.
‘We were horrified and deeply upset but as a doctor, Mum was under no illusions about the outcome of her illness. She was a fiercely independent woman and she could not face losing that independence or being physically reliant on others.’
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Lady, you have this completely backwards.
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Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Soylent Green, here we come.
Yes, the dying process can be ugly. This solution, however, is repugnant to the enth degree. I love how these people whitewash Nazi philosophies. They even have the gall to use Auschwitz as the example.
Please. This was an individual’s choice, not the state’s. I’d make the same decision.
Without government brainwashing, I think she’d have made a different choice. In the past, a few people committed suicide under these circumstances, but not with the support of friends, family and country.
“she was haunted by that image of Mum retching on the barbituates and had nightmares about it.”
Yeah, that was such a better way for your mom to go. No wonder you are having nightmares, girl!
Thank You! Those who haven’t seen what this disease is have no clue about what they would do.
The right to life is God-given and therefore UNALIENABLE.
The word unalienable has its roots in European property law, and it means that not only can’t something be rightfully taken from you, you have no right to give it away. It belongs to the Sovereign, you see.
At least that is what Americans believe to be part of the basis of our liberty.
Americans who haven’t utterly abandoned the basis for our free republic, anyhow.
The death cult continues. Play a parlor game, try to find ways that the Oboamtons and the american Demorcats differ from the Nazis!!
Health nuts, check,,
Adoration art,,,check,
Anti-smoking,,check
Vegetarians,,,check
Eugenics and euthenasia,,check,,
Criminalizing opponents,,,check
Gun control,,,check,,
Pagan retro-religion,,,check,,
Jew-haters,,,check,,,
Indoctrination of children, complete with songs,,check
inform on neighbors ,,, check,,
Shout down speakers just like brownshirts,,,check,,
form alliances with other dictatorships,,,check,,
adore and demand “sacrifice”,,,,
Hate christianity,,, check,,,
Socialism as the ideal,,,check,,
willing to destroy books and newspapers they do not agree with,, check,,
about all i can find is that so far the democrats don’t fly FW-190s and Bf-109s,,,
Creepy, no?
REad on Progressive Supranuclear Palsy,,it was a better way to go, the thirty seconds of retching.
This woman was grown, her decision was hers and not mine or yours. She will face whatever she has to face after death. She was not coerced.
Everyone in the UK is mentally ill.
Death is so like final? No one has to preach to me about
horrors of disease.Suicide is a coward’s way out. Life is once and no matter what happens
there can be joy among suffering.
Those of us who have a faith in God believe life is a gift.
Were not mere vegetables or animals.
The culture of death ALWAYS seems to believe that they are the ONLY ones who have ever had to watch a loved one suffer a painful death, this is patently FALSE.
My question is, why does everyone still stay so tuned in when they know they're being programmed?
Only if the individual believes that they are God.
I’d make the same decision.
That is very sad.
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