[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Davies publishing a book, Choice in Dying, in 1997 and spent much of her life campaigning for a change in the law to let doctors administer lethal medication to patients who wanted to die. She explained that she did not have a terminal illness but suffered from a range of medical conditions including chronic back pain and had suffered increasingly frequent fainting episodes.'

'Davies died on 1 October, five weeks after she stopped eating and a fortnight after she decided to stop drinking water.'

This lady had effectively decided in 1997 that if she was going to end her life on her terms, as she didn't die before her 86th year she then took it upon herself to end her own life in a very distressing way for her and her family, I cannot see any positives in this whatsoever.

Had the vote had a different outcome this lady wouldn't have been eligible in any case her symptoms are all simply age related degeneration, have we to 'bump off' all our old dears?

No she wouldn't have been eligible and it's such a tough area to discuss, it's such an emotive subject with most people I have spoken to bring either staunchly for or against.

In answer to your last sentence though, no we wouldn't have to bump off all our old dears but this lady came to her own conclusion and decided that was how she saw her fate. As I said in my earlier post, and indeed at dignitaries, the person is evaluated to ensure they are of sound mind and it is THEIR decision and theirs alone. They insist on people taking their own medication to end their own life and tape it for legal proof. It can be no one else's decision, only the patients.