What nonsense. Live a long and miserable life of suffering if you wish, but stop imposing your authoritarian tendencies on others.

one can say just as well: 'slavery is no concern of mine, if you don't like slavery, don't buy a slave' without coming to the realisation that slavery, though legal, is intrinsically, inherently, always and everywhere, like torture, evil and wrong with no mitigating circumstances whatsoever. The same can be said for prostitution, abortion, parricide in self-defence and other so-called victimless crimes.

So poor Mr Nicklinson has the choice of starving to death, the same
choice that they gave Mr Rossiter of Perth.

Sheesh, we would not want compassion to get in the way of religious
dogma, let them suffer. What twisted minds some people have.

Murder is wrong: I think everyone agrees with Paul on that score. Where we differ is that we also think torture is wrong while Paul seems to have no objections to it. Sicko.

Cheers,

Tony

Stephen Hawking on euthanasia:

"The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope."

My wife died of terminal pancreatic cancer with liver secondaries and was sent home from a hospital about 14 days before her death with a bottle of morphine sufficient probably to kill a team of horses.

My wife had a terrible night and went back to hospital next day due to rising temperature. After that she only recovered consciousness once and was allowed to die of dehydration, starvation and rising infection. Just before transporting her back to the hospital she said, "Jo...., this is no good".

In hindsight, I wish I had offered to help her take the bottle of morphine.

If a victim of serious ill health clearly has had enough, what about some pity!!