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Should the law make it easier for us to help the terminally ill die?

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  • #102
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Jakkass wrote: »
    Leaving aside the fact that you are assuming sources for now. What journal was that published in so I can look it up for myself and read it?

    Google, baby, Google. You'll only find extracts however.


  • #103
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Nodin wrote: »
    Google, baby, Google. You'll only find extracts however.

    I think I can log in and get the full thing with my university account. Worth a try anyway :)


  • #104
    Holopimp
    Registered Users Posts: 226 ✭✭Holopimp


    I agree that the terminally ill should legally be helped to take their lives if they so wish. However, I think there should be a strict process that should be followed. For example, they should sign documents stating they wish to be helped to die when they are suffering, and this should be done in the early stages of illness, when they are of sound mind. Otherwise people might end up having their senile grannies bumped off at a whim!

    I do feel that people have a right to choice. I have 4 family members with the Huntington's Disease gene, which is a wasting disease similar to Parkinsons. Two of them are currently suffering from the disease, for which there is no cure. The other two are still young and the disease won't kick in until they reach middle age. We believe one of my relatives with the disease even tried to commit suicide a while back, either that or he muddled his meds up. His symptoms have worsened of late, so it pains the family to see him like this. I think if he was given the legal right to choose to die when he is suffering too much, he would have chosen it. But instead we just have to watch him waste away before our eyes.


  • #105
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,464 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    Agreed with what the previous poster said about signing up before you're ever diagnosed.
    Myself I'd sign up asap. There's no way on hell I'd want to be lying comatose/brain dead and causing unimaginable suffering to my family if they had to look after me.
    Same for cancer or some other terrible disease.
    If I had to go then I want it on my terms.


  • #106
    peanut66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭peanut66


    irish_bob wrote: »
    no , people should only die when thier finished having all the sufferng god intended for them :D


    What a complete idiot!!!


  • #107
    Holopimp
    Registered Users Posts: 226 ✭✭Holopimp


    peanut66 wrote: »
    What a complete idiot!!!

    I agree. And I like how the person uses a big passive aggressive smiley at the end. As if smiling at the end of such a comment makes it better! :D:D:D:D


  • #108
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    He was being ironic lads.....


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