Extremely cogent and well argued, with fact!

The newest pain remediation, as I understand it, comes from the marine environment and is said to be a thousand times more efficacious than morphine.

The only real drawback is that it is incredibly addictive! However, hardly a problem for the terminally ill!

The the fact essential hydration can be given via the bowel and or the bloodstream; just underlines all the usual, it's taking too dam long arguments!

As someone who survived multiple P.E's, I do understand and from a personal perspective, what bearing unbearable pain feels like!


And lying in hospital after the second round of major spinal surgery; I was routinely kept awake by old dears with much less wrong with them?

Except in their minds where it was blown out of all proportion, and the over worked nurses being run off their feet and treated as these folks personal servants, knew it!

The Canadian and Belgium examples show that this really is a slippy slope and tantamount to state sanctioned murder!

If we need to do anything; it is to remove any ambiguity from the law, where in dealing with unimaginable pain, it may be possible to unavoidably depress the vital life signs enough to prematurely hasten the end for the terminally ill?

People who feel strongly about their rights, should create a living will to ensure they end their days as they would personally prefer; which seems to be all euthanasia advocates are asking for!?
Rhrosty.

“We simply cannot get around the fact that euthanasia laws would violate a prime mandate of a just and fair society to protect all its citizens equally”. This is a quote from the article. But our present laws on euthanasia are exactly what does violate the mandate of a just and fair society to protect all its citizens equally. The state currently is dictating to every citizen how they are permitted to leave this life, when they themselves have decided that the time has come and they want to leave.

The state has no right to do this and in fact does not register “suicide” as a crime at all and presumably already agrees that each of us has the right to choose. Why then do they make a quick and painless exit so difficult and make it at least a minor offence to obtain the wherewithal.

Could it be that our politicians find it too difficult to create the requisite legal framework to prevent individuals hastening the process with their nearest and dearest especially if there is money involved. We should all contact our local member and ensure that a law along the lines of those operating in numerous other countries is enacted as swiftly as possible.

Euthanasia should be illegal, because it's illegal.

Riiight …

"putting the needs of others on a par with their own..."

Doesn't that mean letting them die if they want to?

Rhosty & DickyBird - You create an argument for a person to take his/her own life, but not for others to be complicit in that. It is the latter that is of greatest concern. No one likes to see people experiencing pain, but compassion is not sufficient motive to get involved in the deliberate taking of human life. The adverse effects of a law allowing that to happen are too serious: the Netherlands and Belgium are perfect example of the allowance. I stand on the idea that there is no dignity in taking one's own life, and even less in asking others to do so, and plan to live by that as long as I live