It is strange how everyone assumes that doctors and nurses will be involved in assisting the suicide of people who are legally sane and in their right minds. Logically, their nearest and dearest will be the ones to assist them - if they need it, but most don't, as Yabby rightly points out. It is most unfair to expect medical practitioners to become 'executioners'. I certainly would not expect a doctor to do it for me; my best friend has already offered - but I wonder if he was a little too keen.

It never ceases to amaze me how we cannot allow a person suffering extreme pain and loss of dignity to request Voluntary Euthanasia. When I was eightenn years young and conscripted to National Service I was taught how to kill people with a bayonet, it would have been excrusiating pain to have a bayonet thrust into your stomach or elsewhere, with me yelling at the top of my voice how successful I had been in this act done, thank goodness it never happened, but this is only part of what we were taught, kill, kill and kill. Perhaps I get it wrong somewhere, that war games are OK, kill for all your worth, but to request VE is a complete and utter no no, when someone somewhere is wanting just that ending, how hypocritical we have become.