'Does anyone else have a problem with this scenario? '

Lexi

I personally don't have an issue with that scenario. You can't stop someone taking their own life if they are determined enough. You can stop the Government from opening the floodgates for euthenasia. Those who favour it usually use the same dishonest tactics that abortionist used when saying that it was about the poor young girl who had been raped and was being forced to carry an unwanted child. The feminist at the time knew this was a lie and wanted to be able to dispose of unwanted babies at any time as seen now every day.

Dear Pericles,

I'm not questioning her right to die.
I'm questioning the timing. Unlike my
mother-in-law - this lady still had a
lot of living to do. And her choice to
take her own life while she wasn't in any
pain, she wasn't ill, to me does not make
sense. It seems that she took this drastic
step simply to avoid what the future may have held -
old age.

I wouldn't have questioned her decision a few
years ago. But having experienced someone
dying - changed my outlook a great deal.

Today is a sad day Lexi, a friends mate is buried today, the second suicide death close to me in recent times.
I understand it is different than what you talk about.
While seeing the waste in my tale I agree with your subject, we should have the right to die.
Let there be no mistake, I speak of the truely ill or great suffering nothing else.

Dear runner,

Thanks for that.

Modern technology is problematic because it has become
such an important factor in social change.

For example, the birth-control bill was introduced as
a convenient technology for family planning. It soon had
the effect, however, of stimulating a "sexual revolution,"
in which permissiveness became more socially acceptable
than before. Many single women became sexually active
without using the pill, with the result that greater numbers
of unwanted children were conceived than before. One
result of this trend was a sharp increase in the numbers
of abortions and the number of single mothers.

Then a new technological fix was in the offing: a
pill that would induce an early miscarriage - and which would
be as easy to take after conception as the birth-control
pill was before the act. Therefore an old problem lead
to new technology, which in turn lead to a new problem,
which in turn has generated a new technological fix, which
still leaves other complications unaddressed.

Dear Belly,

My heart goes out to you dear friend.

We also attended a family friend's funeral today.
She died of cancer and had spent the last
days in a hospice close to the city. She
was in her early 70s and unrecognisable -
from the cancer. Yet she would have given anything
to live. It was not her choice to make.

The right to die needs qualifying. We all get to die so it’s about timing, dignity, choice and peace.

The medieval religious doctrines encourage us to suffer with good cheer in order to reach heaven, rather than going into purgatory until our relatives can afford enough indulgences to get us transferred.

I wish for choice in the event I face a lingering and painful death. Not just because I personally don’t wish to go that way, but because I love my family and I see no good reason to leave them, particularly my kids and grandkids, with a an enduring vision of me that is so different to the real me they knew.

I don’t think it is at all selfish to remove such trauma from the ones we love. I hope I’m able to plan my exit when the time comes.

Woops! There goes that big Mac Truck.