My gran died a couple of years ago. For the past year of the life was in a bed with dementia, barely able to recognise anyone who came to visit her, her eyesight failing, her hearing going. She couldn’t watch tv, she couldn’t read. She forgot who people were. She lay there muttering “I want to die, I want to die” over and over.
It was fucking awful. And it was actually a relief when she died. It would be more humane to give her an injection and put her out of her misery. It made me realise that if I find myself going that way–I am going to off myself before I get to that state.
I disagree as I think it will inevitably get abused.
Life is precious and shouldn’t be ended prematurely without a very good reason.
And if we need to have it, let it be a very high hurdle, including the absolute necessity of the person’s consent.
EDIT: Yes, that’s my view. Downvoting isn’t going to change it.
Yes we are more humane to pets than we are to ourselves it doesn’t make sense when you think about it.
We should be able to euthanise if the person is terminally I’ll and has no quality of life, it’s not nice to suffer in agony and if you are going to die anyway your better off out of it !
I think there should be the option for assisted dying/euthanasia in this country. It’s inhumane to force someone to suffer against their will. I don’t necessarily think doctors should be the ones to do it however, they swore an oath and I think the majority may see this as a violation of that oath.
I don’t think we can reliably predict how we’ll react to the situation but as it stands if/when I have some degenerative disease that’s going to leave me trapped in a useless body, languishing in abject agony, or unable to even recognise loved ones, I hope I have the option to avoid that final suffering.
Signed.
In 2022 I was diagnosed with Cancer. I had seemingly beaten it. But this has left me weak and reliant on others.
Last week I had a phonecall that suggests the cancer might have returned. I am awaiting tests to find out.
If it has the operation that “might” cure it will leave me an invalid for the rest of my days, 20 or 30 years, maybe more. This does not sit well with me, I just don’t want to live like that. Also, it might not cure it and I will die in agony.
Or I can elect to let nature take it’s course, which again will be dying in agony.
If I had my choice I would let nature take it’s course, live the best life I could until it gets too much and then have a dignified death.
Not sure it is a great business model for the Express to suggest culling old people.
I also wish to assist in the death of the Daily Express.
It’s absolutely crazy you’re not allowed to kill yourself already, we all agree it’s not nice to allow pets to keep living when there very ill, but humans it’s different somehow
2 months after my grandmother finally passed after suffering for 2 years due to several strokes. She was a total vegetable having to be carted for 24/7. It was no way to live it the last few years of her life.
It’s a travesty how, in the 21st century, people still don’t have legal ownership over their own lives and bodies.
Suicide should be a fundamental human right, that the state should have very limited power to interfere with. If this had been the case, then we wouldn’t need to be carving out “assisted” dying legislation for marginal edge-cases; because with the technology and medicine that is now available, people would have already been able to gain access to what they needed, without having to go through the NHS.
If the government can compel us to continue living (and this includes blocking access to the most highly effective and humane suicide methods to ensure that anyone seeking suicide has to do so covertly and using messy methods likely to fail), then we are all born as the indentured servants of society. Given that none of us gave our consent to be born, life is filled with hazards and inconveniences, and as far as I can ascertain, life was not bestowed to us as karmic retribution for misdeeds committed in past lives; we should all have the legal right to opt out of continuing to live for whatever reason we see fit. The right to die shouldn’t be a privilege for the terminally ill; it should be as fundamental a human right as the right to life (and in fact, if one can be compelled to live by government decree, then one has an obligation to live, rather than a right to do so).
How do we assist in the death of the Daily Express? That’s one petition I would sign
With average life expectancy being higher today than it’s ever been I’m not surprised there’s support among the Express’ readership, which I assume is boomers and older. A long life often comes with incurable diseases, and many older people have surely seen their parents suffer in their final years with dementia or cancer and are now facing the exact same fate. I wonder if people in opposition to assisted dying have ever considered what kind of life someone with dementia, or in a permanent vegetative state has.
As a Christian it is not for me, it just makes me personally uncomfortable, where is the line, at what point do we say it is okay to euthanise someone. Its not just a tick in a box exercise there are multiple different ethical and moral questions. Saying that though I vehemently stand for for allowing others to have their opinion and the whole render unto ceaser what belongs to caser thing and if this is what people want the church shouldn’t stand in the way, I am just saying we need to be careful becuse frankly there was a point in mu life where if someone offered me a way to end it all there is a hight chance I would have taken it.
Brother-in-laws mum is in a home now, doesn’t know what day it is or recognise people, her husband went the same way. My sister said she couldn’t put her children through seeing her like that and would happily go when ready. I agree, when you’re ready to say goodbye, do it on your own terms.
I’m backing any form of assisted dying for the Daily Express.
I think reading the Daily Express should be treated as a confounding factor here
I fully support the assisted euthanasia of the Daily Express.
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In all seriousness though, this is something that this country does need to look into, we do it for animals after all.
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Fully agree with it.
My gran died a couple of years ago. For the past year of the life was in a bed with dementia, barely able to recognise anyone who came to visit her, her eyesight failing, her hearing going. She couldn’t watch tv, she couldn’t read. She forgot who people were. She lay there muttering “I want to die, I want to die” over and over.
It was fucking awful. And it was actually a relief when she died. It would be more humane to give her an injection and put her out of her misery. It made me realise that if I find myself going that way–I am going to off myself before I get to that state.
I disagree as I think it will inevitably get abused.
Life is precious and shouldn’t be ended prematurely without a very good reason.
And if we need to have it, let it be a very high hurdle, including the absolute necessity of the person’s consent.
EDIT: Yes, that’s my view. Downvoting isn’t going to change it.
Yes we are more humane to pets than we are to ourselves it doesn’t make sense when you think about it.
We should be able to euthanise if the person is terminally I’ll and has no quality of life, it’s not nice to suffer in agony and if you are going to die anyway your better off out of it !
I think there should be the option for assisted dying/euthanasia in this country. It’s inhumane to force someone to suffer against their will. I don’t necessarily think doctors should be the ones to do it however, they swore an oath and I think the majority may see this as a violation of that oath.
I don’t think we can reliably predict how we’ll react to the situation but as it stands if/when I have some degenerative disease that’s going to leave me trapped in a useless body, languishing in abject agony, or unable to even recognise loved ones, I hope I have the option to avoid that final suffering.
Signed.
In 2022 I was diagnosed with Cancer. I had seemingly beaten it. But this has left me weak and reliant on others.
Last week I had a phonecall that suggests the cancer might have returned. I am awaiting tests to find out.
If it has the operation that “might” cure it will leave me an invalid for the rest of my days, 20 or 30 years, maybe more. This does not sit well with me, I just don’t want to live like that. Also, it might not cure it and I will die in agony.
Or I can elect to let nature take it’s course, which again will be dying in agony.
If I had my choice I would let nature take it’s course, live the best life I could until it gets too much and then have a dignified death.
Not sure it is a great business model for the Express to suggest culling old people.
I also wish to assist in the death of the Daily Express.
It’s absolutely crazy you’re not allowed to kill yourself already, we all agree it’s not nice to allow pets to keep living when there very ill, but humans it’s different somehow
2 months after my grandmother finally passed after suffering for 2 years due to several strokes. She was a total vegetable having to be carted for 24/7. It was no way to live it the last few years of her life.
It’s a travesty how, in the 21st century, people still don’t have legal ownership over their own lives and bodies.
Suicide should be a fundamental human right, that the state should have very limited power to interfere with. If this had been the case, then we wouldn’t need to be carving out “assisted” dying legislation for marginal edge-cases; because with the technology and medicine that is now available, people would have already been able to gain access to what they needed, without having to go through the NHS.
If the government can compel us to continue living (and this includes blocking access to the most highly effective and humane suicide methods to ensure that anyone seeking suicide has to do so covertly and using messy methods likely to fail), then we are all born as the indentured servants of society. Given that none of us gave our consent to be born, life is filled with hazards and inconveniences, and as far as I can ascertain, life was not bestowed to us as karmic retribution for misdeeds committed in past lives; we should all have the legal right to opt out of continuing to live for whatever reason we see fit. The right to die shouldn’t be a privilege for the terminally ill; it should be as fundamental a human right as the right to life (and in fact, if one can be compelled to live by government decree, then one has an obligation to live, rather than a right to do so).
How do we assist in the death of the Daily Express? That’s one petition I would sign
With average life expectancy being higher today than it’s ever been I’m not surprised there’s support among the Express’ readership, which I assume is boomers and older. A long life often comes with incurable diseases, and many older people have surely seen their parents suffer in their final years with dementia or cancer and are now facing the exact same fate. I wonder if people in opposition to assisted dying have ever considered what kind of life someone with dementia, or in a permanent vegetative state has.
As a Christian it is not for me, it just makes me personally uncomfortable, where is the line, at what point do we say it is okay to euthanise someone. Its not just a tick in a box exercise there are multiple different ethical and moral questions. Saying that though I vehemently stand for for allowing others to have their opinion and the whole render unto ceaser what belongs to caser thing and if this is what people want the church shouldn’t stand in the way, I am just saying we need to be careful becuse frankly there was a point in mu life where if someone offered me a way to end it all there is a hight chance I would have taken it.
Brother-in-laws mum is in a home now, doesn’t know what day it is or recognise people, her husband went the same way. My sister said she couldn’t put her children through seeing her like that and would happily go when ready. I agree, when you’re ready to say goodbye, do it on your own terms.
I’m backing any form of assisted dying for the Daily Express.
I think reading the Daily Express should be treated as a confounding factor here
I fully support the assisted euthanasia of the Daily Express.
​
In all seriousness though, this is something that this country does need to look into, we do it for animals after all.