Posted on 08/03/2015 2:39:06 PM PDT by PROCON
A healthy retired British nurse who had worked with the elderly has ended her life in a Swiss clinic because she was afraid of getting old and being unable to to kill herself, a British newspaper reported Monday.
Gill Pharoah, 75, who suffered no serious debilitating illness and was still active, was given a lethal injection and was in good enough spirits to joke with a doctor before she died, the London Times newspaper reported.
Pharoah was afraid of suffering a stroke as happened to one of her friends, who then lived on for many years with a poor quality of life, the paper reported.
Pharoah was accompanied to the Swiss clinic in Basel by her long-time partner, John Southall, 70, who told the paper his partner would still be alive if Britain allowed people to make living wills asking that they should be helped to die if they lost the ability to kill themselves.
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Good riddance, moron.
After working in a hospice, I don’t fear death but I fear being so sick that I can’t pull the trigger.
Many people on the floor wanted to die but couldn’t do anything about it. Even if you could hear them try to say “let me die” repeatedly while being tube fed, you couldn’t not feed them. IMO, it’s torture at that point and current laws are inadequate for such a situation.
So I can sympathise with what this lady saw.
Does she have kin folks where are her brothers or sisters or maybe cousin
This remind me of that Star Trek TNG episode where alien dude after age of 60 need kill himself then he fall in love with Deanna Troi mama
I expect a new organization to pop up, called, Planned Retirement.
The poor, deluded woman. It’s just sad.
What a great idea! Environmentalists can reduce their carbon emissions the same way!
I’m with you. I don’t want a hideous, lingering end, and if I have to do something drastic in my old age, I will. Let the religious fanatics make what they will of it.
That right? And you know this how?
Oh don’t worry about US.
It’s God who will let you book your own handbasket.
“In an interview before her death, she complained that her life was in decline as she was no longer enthusiastic about gardening, did not enjoy late dinner parties, and she had issues with tinnitus.”
Who among us hasn’t had similar thoughts when confronted with yet another dinner party?
She's the liberal of the future. When the metrosexual transgender transvestite tree hugging liberals get older, here in America, they'll be offing themselves in order to save the planet, be hip, whatever.
There will be resorts where libs go in groups to die. They'll have a party, get stoned, then with the government's approval, commit group suicide.
Oh man, I hope I'm still alive to read about it and celebrate it.
It’s all in your head.
“The poor, deluded woman. It’s just sad.”
People are getting more, and more, desensitized about human life, including their own.
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