Where does Awimb stand on assisted dying?

[Monty91]

Asking for a friend

[Snin]

[Berni]

The right to cease to exist at a moment and in a manner of our own choosing is surely the most fundamental of human rights (if you believe in that sort of nonsense, of course)?

[Classic Jorge]

I'm all for it, the situation at the moment is a mess though, it's almost as if people don't have a right to end their own life.

[Monty91]

He also appeared to slightly inadvertently admit to having helped kill patients in the past by excessively upping their medicine doses.

The host seemed so shocked she barely knew what to do.

[Trixie Popsicle]

I would never put a person in a position where they had to help me kill myself. That's an absolutely selfish act, which they have to live with, when you're gone.

[Monty91]

yourself.

[Pokster]

[Classic Jorge]

And what if you couldn't actually, physically do it yourself?

Would you still not put someone in that position?

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Berni]

They hate it when patients dare to express an opinion.

[PSRB]

I believe it's called murder otherwise

[Monty91]

and often get things entirely wrong.

So the two doctors required to sign off on someone's death may well not be making the right decision.

[Luis Anaconda]

Otherwise why we she work for London Underground




:hide: I feel I may be assisted dying when she reads this

[Mo Britain less Europe]

medicine can't do anything for the person. And with a cooling off period to ensure no spur of the moment stuff.

Doctors already help patients to die, as does the state, by not providing resources needed to keep people alive.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

& chuck them in the canal. ******* things :furious:

[Classic Jorge]

[Trixie Popsicle]

I'll die when I'm meant to die, and if that includes a bit/lot of suffering so be it.

[Classic Jorge]

[Trixie Popsicle]

[Classic Jorge]

"heeeeeeeeey, how come nobody's mentioned me yet?!"

http://www.carpenoctem.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/shipman.jpg

[Monty91]

[Trixie Popsicle]

[Berni]

those sort of decisions, though, does it? The fact that they may sometimes get it wrong isn't a valid reason not to do it at all.

[Classic Jorge]

So presumably you'd let yourself go to the bitter end even when given a morphine button to do yourself in with.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Pokster]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

discussion between patient and a person of impeccable credentials with doctors in assistance?

[Trixie Popsicle]

However, I may change my mind if they substituted the morphine for a vat of vodka. Throw me in it, add some slices of lemon and I'd be good to go.

[Monty91]

to the idea in principle.

I think people are concerned about the potential for exploitation, for example from family members for whom an ill relative may be a financial burden and may be susceptible to being pushed into taking one for the team.

[Trixie Popsicle]

[Monty91]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

will make the right decision.

The possibility of abuse does not invalidate the idea.

[Trixie Popsicle]

:hehe:

[Luis Anaconda]

[Mc Gooner]