[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

My mum once said to me that if she was ever that ill that she would never recover to help her end it. Thankfully when she did get very poorly, she didn't ask.

In some ways we were quite lucky (!?) with my mum. She was diagnosed with cancer and died within 4 weeks and I can say with some certainty that after her dianosis she was never in pain but she was very quickly not my mum either. Sitting by her bed at home firstly and then in a hospice was the darkest days of my life. She was asleep (unconscious?) most of the time. Her last day was awful with the gasping for breath but the hospice staff were amazing but I would have loved her not to have lost last days of suffering but to be honest, I don't think once she was diagnosed that they would have let her make the decision of assisted suicide as the cancer was in her brain so would have been deemed not mentally competent.

I am still in agreement though but with stringent rulings to prevent any exploitation or coercion