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Point 2 ....my wife's mother passed away in a care home after deteriorating from a brain tumour operation . Left to pass away peacefully or to put it another way left to die in a room ......blindess & a coma was the other alternative ending .....
Cruel is not the word. |
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It's a landslide vote.
That doesn't necessarily mean it's right... |
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Yes, without a shadow of doubt.
As someone posted earlier, 'the doctor came and he/she passed away 10 minutes later' It's well known that medics can make a patient 'more comfortable' if they can. I hope they would do the same for me. |
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YES
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What is noticeable from this "landslide vote" is that almost everybody's opinion is coloured by personal experience. I myself held my own father's hand as he left us having suffered indescribably with bowel cancer. I would have been willing to go to jail for assisting his departure, so please don't assume I have no axe to grind here. However, my objection any such legislation is that it would (in my view) be impossible to practicaby protect the vulnerable from others "deciding" on their behalf what would be best.
As Steamship said above: "Just as I have agreed to have my organs removed when I'm gone and given to others if needed, then I should be able to decide if and when I die." The problems arise when other people are allowed to decide on your behalf. Like the issue of abortion, it is impossible to generalise, which is why I stand by my "no" vote with reservations. To be honest, the original question is inadequate to gauge the true response. |
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My mother died in June in a care home.It was pitiful and was the one thing I promised would never happen - letting her go into a home. But apart from the alleviation of suffering I think the establishment has got a fcking nerve telling me I cant opt out if I want to.That I would have to starve myself or get someone to collaborate with me. This is a single sided argument.Those against choose your natural death but I should have the equal right to choose a chemical death if its what I want.Its got nothing to do with anyone but me and the prescribing doctor.
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