Will

It's not often that you have three relatives in hospital at the same time. It's even less often that they all want to end their lives while they still have their dignity. That's the situation a friend of mine is in right now.

What is worse, is that they are all a tremendous burden on their children, who are pensioners themselves, and trying to enjoy the autumn years of their lives. Instead, they are being torn apart from the inside, and it's absolutely heart-breaking beyond words. If these relations make it out of hospital, they will be kicked out the homes they live in, as they need constant supervision. The children have no choice but to condemn them to a government run home.

Personally, if I ever get to a stage where I'm unable to look after myself, or my mind starts to seriously slip, I'd rather be dead too. Why isn't it every human beings right to die with dignity?

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Sweetpea

I have believed in Euthanasia a long time. This became particularly true when I watched the father of my child, grow weaker and more incapacitated every day with Motor Neurone Disease. You would be prosecuted if you kept an animal in that condition.

Bruv

I too have personal experience of both parents departing this world before their final demise, which in both cases was a relief.
My mother for several years had said light heartedly, and that is how we all took it, that she wished she could just "Go"
When asked why,she told everyone, that she had had her life and was just tired or fed up.She stopped her weekly Darts outing and couldn't be bothered to play along with Countdown anymore. During the last days, when we visited her in hospital, she wasn't really there, that was when the grieving started. Visits became a trial, unsure who we would see there, the women we knew, or the frail empty body that she had become.

My view of euthanasia altered during that time, Im sure if my mother could have taken her destiny into her own hands she would have done so.
And by doing so spared herself and her loved ones the continued agony.

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poppy

well I just hope I am fortunate enough to be able to end it all myself before I get too bad to manage it.
We have no family so whichever one of us goes first will leave the other to their own devices. I would not hesitate to assist in a loved ones exit, if the situation became hopeless, and they really desired release.
I am knocking on a bit now and have done pretty much all I wanted to do in life, so if I got locked up for a few years it wouldn't really matter.
I would hate to be a burden, or be dependent on anyone.
I think it about time the law was changed look at the people who have had to travel abroad to die with dignity because doing so her is denied them.
Ramble over I hope at least some of it made sense.

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Sweetpea

I would certainly have done something to help Eric, and indeed he hinted, but I had our 11 year old daughter to think of. He could not do it himself however, as by the time of his death he could move nothing but his head.

Most MND patients die from 'drowning'. They lose their cough reflex and their lungs just fill with fluid. This is exactly how Eric departed. And what a huge relief that was, for him, not me. I was floating on air, I had done my grieving during his two years illness. His release filled me with joy.

skinny

I think i agree with euthanasia, it's not an easy one as people differ and when the laws are layed down they are open to manipulation.