Suicide as a cure for age depression? Hmm. Why not?

let all those in favour be able to just trot down to the local Supermarket and buy a pill? Now today! Always providing they visibly consume it before driving themselves to the nearest mortuary? Now that would save time and money particularly if they had a prearranged paid funeral?

Other than that the state could provide large pits where bodies could be piled up covered in quicklime and go on to serve as very low cost fertiliser, always providing anything of enduring value (gold teeth, hair etc) was recovered first to offset the cost to the community of this form of rubbish removal?

And with that accomplished all those wanting to top themselves would have removed themselves and their worthless self centred selfish wish list from the debate and without concern for those left behind?

Nothing worth grieving for in folk who have become so introverted and focused exclusively their miniscule problems that they want to stop the world and get off?

I say these folk are as worthless as their ultimate goal and should be allowed to just get on with it.
Alan B.

"That there will most likely always be people who are excluded makes an ass out of any law that supposes itself to be based on compassion for people who are suffering."

A law that gives even one person the right to do what they want when they want to do it is better than no law at all. And given the way that legislation usually operates, one moderately good law is often the stepping stone to better, more comprehensive ones.

But if the best argument the anti-euthanasia movement has left is "We can't pass a law allowing it because some people might be left out," then I don't anticipate they're going to give us trouble for very much longer.

Prohibition has never ever worked, be it booze or abortion.

Naturally most blokes will be excluded from abortion clinics on the grounds that the selective service doesn't apply to them any more than automated tampon removal in a public toilet setting would?

Although the latter lavatory embellishment might assist an average tenor finally reach high C!? And perhaps added to the final bars of, fly me to the moon, jupiter or mars!

How would one describe that? Entertainment has reached a new high? Oh the pain the pain?

There are folks who have absolutely no respect for the sanctity of life and want to impose, as universally applicable, an absolutely foreign and morally abhorrent view on those who can never ever share it!

Then there are those who bang away on population control, or want an automatic termination to apply once your private health fund drops you off their client list given you've traversed the 75 year age barrier that is so decimating on the profit curve or margins?

Those who think that way should simply be given a pill and asked to swallow their own medicine and in so doing led the way by example?

But be careful what you wish for, given you just might get it? Moreover, the road to hell is paved with good intentions!

Don't believe in hell? Well, there was a time when conventional wisdom made the world as flat as a pancake and in the absolute centre of the universe! Belief changed none of the actual facts!

Believing is nothing, knowing is everything! Signed by one who knows! Been there seen that!
Alan B.