[Angus]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I think many people on here will have experiences similar to Angus58s.

It is soul destroying for the person very ill and also those who are their loved ones to see and know what is happening.
To watch someone in excruciating pain is one of the most horrible things anyone will have to do, you can do nothing to ease the pain, you cannot distract them from the pain, you are in totality powerless.Much is made of being an orgam donor these days and soon it may be likely that to not be an organ donor you may need to opt out.
It is time that the rights of the person who is going to die from their illness are taken into full account.

There are two arguments, 1) the person could say they wish if ever they were terminally ill to be allowed euthanasia, having that noted either before they were ill or after diagnosis,especially while in sound mind at the time.
2) the dangers are stated as what if the person changed their mind but no one knew about that.

A lot of precautions and rules would have to be followed but I would say in my opinion the time has come for people to be able to say please in those circumstances, I do not want to go on like this.
The law needs to be changed and also the oath that Doctors take,I believe that can be easily done,clearly it would have to be registered with offialdom that the person wishes to be relieved of their pain and torment and massilve lost of dignity and modesty often too.

It is though time to let people decide,once they know they have an incurable illness and will die to say thank you but no more,please let me go with
dignity.
Equally so for people to register the request that should they ever be dying of an incurable illness or serious injury that they are allowed to die. Just as you can insist on not being resuscitated should you die in hospital.

When its a loved one,the natural longing is to hold on to them for as long as possible,but watching people in pain,especially cancer pain as Angus58 described is not only torturous for the person but those watching too.

It would need a lot of regulation and cast iron checks and registering but in this day and age we all should if we wnat to, be able to say in those circumstances, enough is enough,let me go,please.

I have already registered an opt out if I suffer some catastrophic accident, stroke or other terminal illness, and that is that I do not want to be resuscitated or have any aggressive interventions. Effectively the doctors would be practising passive euthanasia.