Posted on 12/19/2009 10:59:35 AM PST by wagglebee
In a submission to a consultation on relaxing the rules on assisted suicide - which ends today - a coaliton of five disabled groups, said that “to see suicide as the right solution is to abandon hope. Severely ill and terminally ill people do no deserve society to give up on them.”
The group, which is lead by Baroness Campbell, accused others who were pushing for the change as “seeking to change the law by the back door by creating the impression that those who assist in a suicide will be immune from prosecution”.
Over the past 10 years 100 Britons have travelled to the Dignitas clinic in Switerland to commit suicide. Eight of them were referred for consideration for a prosecution by the DPP.
In one of the cases, Daniel James, who killed himself after becoming paralysed after a rugby accident, Mr Starmer decided that it would be wrong to prosecute his mother who had been punished enough by the experience.
The group, which include the Royal Association for Disabled People, the UK Disabled People’s Council and the National Centre for Disabled Living, said it was clear that she had done “everything in her power to stop him seeking assisted suicide."
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This isn’t about a person taking their own life; it’s about those who assist a person in doing so. Therein comes the moral prohibition.
Yes, provided it doesn’t put anyone else’s life in danger.
At first she said that God gave her trials to suffer through. In the end she could no longer bear the pain.
Neither I nor my cousins have any interest in calling the police about this. I will not judge either of them because I know my aunt's heart and I believe that God is merciful. Let God judge her for her life and death and let no one judge her for her death.
I responded to the comments not the threads specific subject. See my comment about my aunt and tell me the doctor should go to prison.
and even if you fail no one is going to prosecute you.
Pain is awful. I had a time in my life where there was literally nothing else in the world except pain. I couldn't carry a conversation, talk or even think about anything except the pain. Refocus technniques had little effect. Pain was all that existed. I can understand completely wanting to end pain. That said, it's not my place to judge your aunt.
My mother-in-law was in a hospice for months, knowing that any moment might be her last. She was in intense pain. She couldn't keep food or water down. She was surrounded by dying and mourning people. She was 1000+ miles from all her family except her 75 year-old diabetic husband who was barely able to live by himself. When she somewhat stabilized, she was moved closer to her family and another doctor determined that the diagnosis that put her in hospice was completely inaccurate. After appropriate medical care, she lived another 17 years.
I used to believe that assisted suicide was a reasonable option. I no longer do.
I'm sorry now for coming to the thread. I can't talk about this any more for now. I don't know why people have to judge others when God will do it at the end.
What should the sentence be for violating this law?
What you describe is generally the way things work out. If there is hope for your recovery, they are careful not to overmedicate you or get you hooked. Once they’ve decided you probably aren’t coming back, they generally let you have all the pain meds you want.
There is nothing explicit though. These things are worked out between patient and doctor and family according to their consciences and their understanding of what is possible and what is not, when it is time to fight and when it is time to let nature take its course.
You don’t want the law to intrude in this area, not even to make it explicitly legal. The end of life is something we will all face, and knowing when and how to fight and when and how to let go is something we’ll all have to work out when the time comes.
You don’t want explicit law involved. You’ll wind up with a soylent green horrorshow such as in Holland, where the doctors off you without asking. I know there is supposed to be an “ethical” procedure, but the reality is that the doctor makes the decision and slips you the cocktail without asking you or your family. I’m already seeing vestiges of the vaunted “death panel” in the way things happen even here in the US. They are looking for legal cover especially as the cost-benefit analysis becomes more explicit.
I don’t want to give anyone legal cover, because the consequences are frightening. People have managed to die for thousands of years without suicide legislation. I’ve watched a number of relatives die lately, and I’ve noticed how the dance works itself out. Keep the law out of it except as needed to defend life. Death takes care of itself.
I am an Iraqi vet. 100% disabled from combat and recently received obamas death panal instructions from the VA. How absolutely disgusting. God Help our Republic!!
God Bless you and thank you for your service and sacrifice.
I am all for full prosecution of anyone committing suicide.
Your solution in preventing suicide by making a law punishing the person with death has got to be either tongue in cheek or idiotic. By punishing the person with death, u r granting the very wish of the suicidal person. This so-called solution is laughable indeed.
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