Assisted Suicide..

Assisted Suicide..

Theres uproar that tonight there will be footage of an assisted suicide on the tv and they're debating on the news about the law in regards to assisted suicides.

Personally I reckon that, if someone is in shit state, has no quality of life and is just gonna live a life of depression for however long, who is anybody else to say that they cannot end their own life or others can not help them by taking them to companies and organisations who deal with it?

Its fuckin hilarious that attempted suicide is illegal, so what they're saying is "If you are depressed and try to end your life...and fail, we'll prosecute you and put you in jail".......:think: ????????????

Thats just what a depressed person needs you fuckin idiots

Re: Assisted Suicide..

if you're depressed though there's a high likelihood that you'll try and kill yourself. depression can be cured. Would be pretty shit if you'd killed yourself when you might have felt better after a few months or something. Think that's why they need pretty stringent laws on this kind of thing.

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Definitely. If you look at the cases tho where someone has a terminal illness with no cure and is goin to spend the rest of their short life in agonising pain and suffering, why should their family be prosecuted for assisting them. Thats what i'm tryin to get at. Someone who just isnt happy with whats happenign in their life at that time wouldnt really qualify lol.

what channel this on and what time

I think it's completely fine. One person wouldn't dare take responsibility for being the one who tells someone in terrible pain, with no quality of life and no future that they have to endure it until nature takes its cause. However, if it's just 'the law' then you get people sitting being a blanket trying to justify it as if some higher force says that assisted suicide in these conditions is wrong.

Its on Sky Real Lives but not sure what time.

As long as the person who eventually dies is fully aware of what's going on and has this certified by a doctor they should be able to choose what the hell they want doing to their own body.

If they're in the right frame of mind and wish to end it, they should be allowed to end it.

Keep it the way it is, ILLEGAL IN MY COUNTRY but if the freak want to go somewhere else to end their miserable lifes fuck em, let em do it

i don't see why there should b an issue...if someone is able to say they want to end their life & chose to go somewhere to do it thne good on them being brave enough to do so. must b hard to know you're going to die...

think it's shite that people are being threatened with charges for helping them get to the where they chose to die...

would you be charged if you were on holiday with someone & they were killed by a speeding car...nope but you helped them get there didn't you??!!!!

they're not even charging half the fuckers who kill in this country let alone someone who is helping someone end their life in a dignified way instead of suffering til the end...

rant over for now

Why?

Not like you to sit on the fence...

I seen the last half hour of this, and I personally agree with what he done

If ever I was in a similar state, then I would want to be gone. Couldnt bare to have someone having to look after me completely. I would wish my friends and family to remember me happy and who I am now, not platonic and dependant.

What fucks me off is, a Dr can declare a DNR (do not resuscitate), yet an individual can not decide if they want to live or do (providing they are of solid state of mind to do so).

there are some pretty fucking basic views on here. sometimes it's like reading the sun, but written by toddlers.

the reason this is a contentious point is that "quality of life" is such a relative term, that is to say that one mans misery is anothers happiness.

i have personal experience in some of the issues here, my brother was injured in a car crash when he was 15, he was paralysed from the waist down. for years he was so depressed he would, if he had been given the choice, ended his life.

21 years later he remains paralysed, and is a fit, healthy father of 3.

you can't just make a law that says "if you are a bit down then yeah you can off yourself" because every single case is different. who is going to have the final say on who can top themselves? a judge? a jury? the individual? thier family?

the individual

I had a great aunt that had motorneuron disease, its a rare condition that effects your nervous system.

you lose functions of movement & eventually become quadrapledic

you do eventually die a painful & miserable death!

she didn't have assisted suiside although i wish someone could have helped her into the after life that bit quicker considering what she went through.

so for some f**ken t**t to say if you fail to die when going against government policy on assisted suicide or suicide as a whole, we'll throw you in prison or the person who assisted you! :spangled:


who the f**k is the government to tell is what we can and can't do with our own lives, if you ask me its sad and pathetic, the world we live in is just an open prison dictated by the government in which we are the modern day slaves with very little rights on our own lives.

lets have a civil war!! :evil:

in the eyes of the law, you are not a person but a statistic thats why nothing ever gets done unless its already happened!

At the end of the day if that is ones choice, nobody should go agaisnt there free will, you have no regrets when you're dead.

i was more getting to the point of when people are disabled but through there condition, its an endless life of pain until death! and they know they only got a coupple of years to live when they already know that there death is inevitable!

i understand your point, but what about dianne pritty?

but like i say again, if a person wants to die let them, you don't have to assist them if you don't want to but am sure somebody else will.

Freedom what freedom!

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And to your first comment, i think you are calling the kettle black there mate!

you obviously just thought about this very single mindedly, although i do get your point, but thats the thing, you have to get everyones point not just your own!

And about making a law! your are right, they shouldn't even have one LOL if someone wants to do it, AGAIN for fuck sake let them do it!

i'm suprised they don't still arrest people for hanging out there washing on a sunday!

your a bit of an idiot arent you.

how can the police do anything unless its happened? are they suposed to be psychic? if the police started pre-empting what people were doing youd say it was and infringement of your rights, and as such be totally contradicting yourself.

to commit, or attempt suicide regardless of your medical state is a crime, and you can go to jail, although more often than not its a psychiatric hospital you end up in.

I agree that people should be given a choice to die if they want to, but their decision should be made when their mind is in a fit state, i.e. when they are fit and well, as it has been mentioned before, the depression of becoming paralysed, or having a terminal illness can cloud the judgement of any sane person, and lets face it, no matter how it happens we all die of the same thing, lack of oxygen to the brain usually down to the fact that the heart has stopped.

it shouldn't be a crime though. If you are so desperate that you want to kill yourself then making it a crime is senseless

and if you are fit and well then you don't need assisted suicide so that's a catch 22