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Originally posted by Angiebabe
I just read the link Sticks, very interesting reading in paticular the statistics from Australia and the conclusions brought about from the report itself.
It does confirm my own and the majority of people I've spoken with concerns over assisted suicide.
Although I don't like the idea of making assisted suicide legal, that DOES NOT mean I automatically must wish pain and suffering to people with terminal illnesss. Like wise I DO NOT take the view that ALL THOSE who disagree are wanton killers with alterior motives.
I've met and spoken to people who would wish to be assisted and relatives who would assist a person in taking there own life.
For them it is the right and proper thing to do, and who am I or anyone else to judge or punish them as "murderers"
However the right thing to do for them is still along way short of making this a concrete LAW for everyone else.
What we have in the UK now is a fine balance enough (IMO), where as I'm sure assisted suicide does and will happen and continue, all without the need to involve police investigations or charges being brought forward.
In other words I'd rather have this issue decided by the morals of individuals directly involved rather than a state run law judged by people who will never really know what the facts may or may not have been.
Neither is perfect, trusting peoples morals is no gurantee things will be right, neither (IMO) is any proposed regulated formula I've yet seen.
I've said many times I've wished I was dead, and really meant it on occasions, in reality though I've NEVER actually wished I was dead, or I would be.
That's why in my situation I'd like the legal stance left unchanged, I feel that benefits far more people than it hurts.
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Does it benefit the people who have to die alone in a foreign country without their loved ones around? Does it benefit the loved ones who cant be with them when they die? If your saying that you agree with people doing it for their own personal reasons, and if we all agree that as a society then why not make it legal so people dont have to die alone...
Also the statistics in that article just add to conjecture they dont appear to be meaningful on their own. I would like to see more comparative studies.