Posted on 04/17/2025 5:15:55 AM PDT by RandFan
A wife under police investigation after assisting the suicide of her husband at Dignitas in Switzerland said she has “no regrets” as he had a “beautiful death”.
Louise Shackleton, whose husband Anthony was suffering from Motor Neurone Disease said: “It took four people to get him on the plane and he turned and looked at me and said ‘they can’t stop us now can they love?"
Louise, from North Yorkshire, has spoken publicly for the first time since her husband's death in December, as parliament prepares to vote again on legislation to introduce assisted dying in England and Wales.
“We talked at length over two years about this and what he said to me on many occasions is ‘look at my options’,’ she said. ‘’Look at what my options are. I can either go there and I can die peacefully, with grace, without pain, without suffering or I could be laid in a bed not being able to move, not even being able to look at something unless you move my head. What he wanted, nothing more but a good death...
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
White Genocide continues on schedule
Did America (and the west) think that rejecting God, would be painless ??
Just look to ancient Israel...
We talked at length over two years
It’s a no call deal
Scary, isn’t it!!
"I think that sometimes we need to suffer other people's choices, and when I mean suffer I mean we have to acknowledge that whilst we're not comfortable with those, that we need to respect other people, other people's wishes."
"This is about a dying person's choice to either follow their journey through with disease or to die peacefully when they want to, on their terms, and have a good death. It's that simple."
From the article: " 'I have committed a crime, which I have admitted to, of assisting him by simply pushing him onto a plane and being with him, which I don't regret for one moment. He was my husband and I loved him,' she said."1) Contract and local jurisdiction laws apply, from a purely legal perspective, for "charging" in a court of law, after an investigation. Her assertion ( or, call it an admission ) does not make it a criminal offense until the "law" of the UK is applied.
"Pushing him onto a plane" seems legally a stretch, and it is likely such will by the UK decision. We've had many such instances of gray area "events" as with Schiavo and more. And of course 1.04 million abortions this last year were "legal" in these United States.
And 2) that Higher Authority will sort it out.
In the interim, somehow "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" lingers.
The danger of the slippery slope such as we have seen with euthanasia in Holland, argues against legalizing this, but in the case at hand it is hard not to feel compassion. Christian theology avers that your life belongs to God, not you, so there is that to consider as well..
His death was peaceful, unlike the passengers in his car
As a legal technicality, since it happened in another country, I would say no. But morally, yes.
I think it depends on the illness and maybe hardship to family
It’s not a one size fits all issue
One thing for sure though don’t leave a mess for loved ones to discover and clean up ala Hunter S Thompson
“Should she be charged, Freepers ? 🤔”
The first thing in most Freepers minds is how they can punish someone. They love it.
The US will be offering this service at senior centers. Don’t doubt me.
Yep, right from the script of Soylent Green.
Another perspective.
In an attempt to diffuse the sin of the act, he involved his wife, anyone that knowingly assisted his movement to the site, and gave monetary, political and moral support to a corruptive organization attempting to portray a terrible sin as normative.
Instead of diffusion, it was expanded and the effect of that sin continues on as encouragement for others to destroy themselves.
The “only person who’s perspective matters” is dead. Those that assisted his death must carry it and deal with it - the sin is not altered, the guilt will remain upon them.
The discussion is not of this one man’s condition, but of the results of his action - focus on ‘his perspective’ only clouds the issue (as most appeals to empathy, ‘feelings’, do).
Is this unforgiveable? No. Is this the good thing it’s portrayed to be? Certainly not.
I’m not so sure
Maybe in Massachusetts
Honestly if you make that decision you don’t need the state
I think most folks oppose euthanasia
After that it gets more convoluted
I’ve seen some hard deaths which made me ambivalent
You are pushing your religion onto others in an act of moral superiority.
I have already decided I am going to do this if certain situations present itself. I have no intention of sitting in a wheelchair slumped over for years in a nursing home with no quality of life .
I believe people should be given options. We do it for dogs. I am in that position now with my dog . At what point should I put her down? I should have already done it but you might pontificate it’s not God’s will because he hasn’t struck her down yet .
I think, what is the most impossible thing to believe could happen and know that this the left’s target.
They put us in camps if they could
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