Former F1 boss Max Mosley shot himself after terminal cancer diagnosis

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  1. Former F1 boss and nazi fetishist, Max Mosley…

    -ftfy

    edit: to all the people downvoting, some of us are old enough to remember the headlines and pictures.

  2. Is nobody going to question why/how Max Mosley had a gun and ammunition?

    Edit: Fair enough, legally owned Shotgun. For some reason I had in my mind it was a handgun.

  3. It’s interesting that a lot of us have this intuitive notion that, if it’s a cat or a dog, then it’s the kindest thing to do. But if its a human? We just refuse to allow them to do anything other than persist in agony.

  4. Honestly, I have said for my whole life given a situation like this I am going out on some heroin.

    I will die on my own terms, now something like Dementia might take that from me but I would sooner die on a 1 month heroin binge than of cancer slowly in bed.

  5. Dying from terminal cancer is a very grim way to go, there is absolutely no dignity in it. Once you get that diagnosis there is no going back. The pain will get worse and worse until your mind goes, and then you’ve got about a week of being in a vegetable state before your body finally gives out.

    I don’t blame Max at all. Whilst I’m not sure I’d shoot my self in his situation, I’d definitely look for a quick way out whilst I still could.

  6. I’ll be the first to say I wasn’t a massive fan of Max Mosley, but that’s still sad as hell. I agree that there should be an option to allow someone to end their life with dignity. It’s something I’ve considered for my future given my condition, not sure I want to live in pain for another 40+ years.

  7. Top bloke.

    Had my reservations about the “Nazi” element of his sex stuff, but became very clear that wasn’t the case and he was just a randy bugger doing fun shit in his older years with fully consenting adults, and even his wife wasn’t that arsed.

    Led a hell of a life, did enormous good for both my sport of choice _and_ anyone who ever gets into a road car, then ended on his own terms when he knew enough was enough.

    Can’t have been pleasant for those who found him, but that’s just a sign we need to really really rethink our euthanasia laws. Hopefully this drives that to happen.

  8. I mean fair fucks. Can’t blame the guy when the options legally in this country amount to wait to die a long slow and painful death.
    Slug to the skull sounds a much better solution to me personally.

    We really need to get a government that is going to let go of the taboo about ending your life on your own terms in your own country. Fuck sake we give dogs more dignity than humans when they are suffering.

  9. How was dignitas or one of those other variants not considered a better option for someone so rich?

  10. I don’t blame him. When my mum was dying of lung cancer, it was horrifying to watch her waste away and cry out in pain all the time, even with a strong Oxycodone prescription. I’d have liked her to have the option to end it on her own terms.

    It’s awful that there are no legal mechanisms to let people who are suffering with no prospect of recovery choose their own ending.

  11. In an ideal world euthanasia would be available to anyone at any time not just the terminal and most sick but at an absolute bare minimum to be a civilised society we need to offer safe and controlled ways for those trapped to suffer to be able to end their torture.

    We cannot continue to let people suffer days, weeks, months, years with awful conditions and torturous situations. We can have checks to catch coercion but we have to make it available in a safe environment to stop loved ones being forced to do it in painful ways.

  12. Fair play old chap. Sad there wasn’t a more peaceful way to go under your own agency. As others have said, we are long overdue a reform in end of life care pathways.

  13. Euthanasia needs to be legalised but strictly regulated to ensure its 100% the person’s uninfluenced wish

    I’ve seen a lot of people die through work, most of them had dementia but some had terminal cancer. Both are awful ways to go in their own way and if it was me I would like access to a painless death at a time of my choosing with my family around me

    It’s not dignified at all being denied that option

  14. In theory I would like the choice to end my own life under kinder circumstances like in Switzerland however I have put pets down at the end of their life and I struggled with that and couldn’t imagine being in the same position with a human even if it was their choice.

  15. I’m surprised he didn’t sign up for clinical trials for B-Cell Lymphoma which has quite a few promising therapies for it..

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