They Shoot Horses, don't they?

[Odds]

A cross-party group of MPs who are practising medics and former NHS staff have written to MPs urging them to back the assisted dying bill, after the health secretary expressed doubt that the health service was fit to enact such a big change. @ the Guardian


Not sure i could pull the plug on a loved one if that terrible decision ever had to be made - could you?

 

[Andy165]

I could pull the plug on myself if life became too unbearable due to an uncurable disease or condition which left me in constant pain and slowly deteriorating with no way forward.

 

[blup]

There will have to be a new section in tne lasting power of attorney forms confirming that you are not a murderous pyscopath or after a relatives money. No need for new laws , people can go to switzerland.

 

[Murdochcat]

The misses and i are on the same page as each other. The ability for the individual to decide on this odd long overdue in law.

 

[Odds]

There will have to be a new section in tne lasting power of attorney forms confirming that you are not a murderous pyscopath or after a relatives money. No need for new laws , people can go to switzerland.

Could everyone afford to do that?
It's an expensive business.

 

[blup]

Could everyone afford to do that?
It's an expensive business.

There are alternatives, it is inconceivable that the cps would prosecute in genuine cases. The debate has become skewed towards the inconvenience of having to travel to Switzerland rather than the principle of whether it is right to bring into to English law.

 

[Odds]

Maybe a clinic can be modelled on Dignitas in the UK, with a stringent selection process to determine each case. I don't imagine everybody will take the option to end life while any hope remains, so it comes down to a clearly terminal diagnosis where pain is a mitigating factor in deciding the merits of an individual petition.
The spectre of Harold Shipman still haunts this issue, and folk will be rightly a-feared of doctors having too much life-and-death power. I think they already do. Mistakes are made with frightening frequency in hospitals on a daily basis.