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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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 Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: Brits have to travel abroad to die. |
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This really pisses me off. It's bad enough that you're in so much pain you want to end your life, but to have to do it far away from your home and your loved ones is really terrible. I wish they'd sort this problem out.
Dying for something better
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There is now a desperate need for a change in UK law to allow terminally ill people to choose a medically assisted death
Last week, it was reported that two German men had been helped to die in car parks in Switzerland by newly mobile Swiss assisted suicide clinic, Dignitas. The men, one aged 50 and one aged 65, died within a month of each other after Dignitas was evicted from the flat from which it used to operate. The fact that the clinic has now set up a "mobile suicide service" makes it even more accessible to non-Swiss nationals. The appalling situation of these men seeing no alternatives other than to end their lives in foreign car parks is further evidence that there is now a desperate need for a change in the law in the UK to allow medically assisted dying.
Since Dignitas was set up, more than 70 terminally ill Britons have already been forced to abandon their homes, friends and family to die in a strange country. This incredibly traumatic journey shows that patient choice in the UK has a very long way to go.
The current law in the UK fails the terminally ill, and claims from anti-choice campaigners that good quality palliative care should be enough to allow a patient comfort and dignity at the end of their lives are not based on fact. When patients reach the final stages of a terminal illness, palliative care is sometimes not enough to alleviate their extreme constant suffering and, for some, the option of a medically assisted death is the only way they can die with dignity. As a result of being denied this basic right, people resort to traveling to Dignitas or, worse, attempting unregulated assisted dying with loved ones at home, which is highly dangerous, deeply traumatic and carries a risk of up to 14 years in jail for relatives who may be present. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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Why did they ever invent doors? I don't like doors.
Someone wasn't concerned with my feelings when they created doors.
Why does society force doors on us? |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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| The Cult of Death is upon us. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| CBC, what are your opinions on the war in Iraq, Afghanistan and capital punishment? Are you opposed to all three and embracing a culture of life? |
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nicholas_chiasson
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Location: Samcheok
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| Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| thepeel wrote: |
| CBC, what are your opinions on the war in Iraq, Afghanistan and capital punishment? Are you opposed to all three and embracing a culture of life? |
1)He probably is. |
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