Would you volunteer to be euthanased?
Watch this postIf you were old and sick and pretty much brassed off with life, and if you were offered 'a way out' i.e, a shot in the arm, or a whiff of cyanide gas, and then peace, perfect peace. Would you go for it?
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1) If I was in pain with no relief in sight and suffering from something incurable.
2) I'd hate to put my family through the pain and anguish of watching my slowly deteriorate.
I think it is still available on Amazon . Edward G Robinson and Charlton Heston are the Stars
and it's a futuristic World which I am sure will be the norm sometime in the future.
Did anyone see the T.V. programme where the Man could only communicate by way of a stick in his mouth to communicate on his laptop and wanted to be put out of his misery. Next morning it was reported that he had died , no comment from the Family and my guess was he had been given an injection by a Doctor .
Incidentally, the deficit for the NHS is horrendous and rising , I'm sure that at some stage Euthanasia will be practised in Britain .
We don't prolong animal's suffering so why should humans suffer?
It seems some in authority feel they have the need to play God and keep us alive whatever our personal feelings which is not humane.
Re your statement about not needing the financial capacity to refuse treatment, as I understand it after a conversation with my GP, unless you have made a Living Will the medical professionals will always treat any medical conditions they deem necessary so you are effectively 'up a creek without a paddle' if you don't have the means to pay solicitors fees?
I think this is all irrelevant anyway, as look at poor Tony Nicklinson who was 'locked in' for years and suffered dreadfully despite his and his family's fight for the right to legally end his life.
It just feels to me that we have little control over this very important matter in our lives. Very sad.
I think it would also be difficult for the person who was charged with performing euthanasia, if you have spent your life saving life, it is difficult to deliberately end it even if you believe you would be ending suffering. Who decides what quality of life means to an individual and what are acceptable circumstances for performing euthanasia?
I think the problem with Tony Nicklinson was the courts were involved and that always causes problems. There have been a very small number of people with 'locked in' syndrome who have miraculously recovered consciousness and I think that is what frightens people in making a decision but these cases are rare.
May be I have been lucky, I have only worked in hospitals and my experience has been that when a doctor feels there is no benefit to treatment and the patient does not have the capacity to make a decision, the medical staff have always discussed it with the next of kin so a decision for no active treatment can be taken. We were allowed to let my mother die with dignity, no doctor tried to prevent the inevitable and for that we were grateful as she was in so much pain.
I do feel for your dilemma.
I would say that rule is quite cheapskate because there are many uses for one's body if it is intact.
Thinking about it Alan247 my husband has started serving me Cheerios for breakfast, do you think that may be significant?