If she really wanted to off herself, she could.
No reason to write a law.
Agreed, there are a lot of ways to kill one self. I am sorry she was ill and in a lot of pain. However legalizing suicide is not the way to ease the pain of sick people.
“She could just move to the Netherlands.”
Yep, nothing to it for the terminally ill.
I had a colleague ask me if I would have it (euthanasia) performed on myself. I answered thusly: "I took an Oath, and so did you, to first do no harm and then to practice my art and science for the betterment of mankind. I take that oath seriously, as should you. I am, as you know, a religious man. When God takes me He knows that I can no longer help my patients, or He needs me in Heaven. Until that time I will practice medicine because God brought me to this profession in the first place". My esteemed colleague made no remarks. Some people don't like to be remained of their solemn oath. I take it seriously, and I have for some 30 years.
There is no pain more intense than losing a patient. If any doctor tells you different they are either lying or they have no fricking clue and they are in medicine for all the wrong reasons. I've seen these idiots and I wouldn't let them work on my dog.
Be careful now days, there is not much out there in what used to be medicine, but there is better medicine, if we let it work. Purging done!
Why stop with the terminally ill? I mean, we’re all terminal anyway, aren’t we? If the woman suffered, really suffered so much with Chron’s Disease for 16 yrs., wouldn’t it have been more compasionate to euthanise her after no more than 10 yrs of suffering? Why not 5 yrs? So why is the terminality of disease the criterion here? If they’re going die soon anyway, wouldn’t it be more compasionate to focus on those suffering with a long-term incurable illness? Why let it go until she came down with colon cancer? Think of the money they could have saved on her care.
“A psychogeriatric consultant, she sees elderly patients who are not getting sufficient pain medication and dying patients who choose to starve as the only way to end their suffering.”
This is the essence of the problem. The restrictive drug laws in America scare the heck out of doctors who want to provide for their pain patients.
I’ve seen doctors in hospitals refuse to give enough pain med to dying folks “because they might die”, and we all know what happens to doctors that provide “too much” narcotics.
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No reason even to do all that...I don’t know about Australia but I’d like to believe they have hospice.