tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post6984516579358042201..comments2024-03-28T10:25:42.597+00:00Comments on TPQ: Humane Assisted Dying, Not WaterboardingAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-86532634996803336582020-04-17T19:07:39.647+01:002020-04-17T19:07:39.647+01:00Having witnessed a relative descend into incurable...Having witnessed a relative descend into incurable illness, I would be very much in favour of such a law that would allow people to die with dignity. There is nothing more sobering than witnessing someone being unable to hold a pen or cup. Christopher Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05236891604706531905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-49264600784878185022020-04-15T11:22:52.661+01:002020-04-15T11:22:52.661+01:00Henry Joy - there are more people who think they h...Henry Joy - there are more people who think they have easy answers than there are easy answers. I think it should be treated like a plane - let it fly but make sure every precaution is in place before it leaves the runway. I had read the Goodall experience while writing the piece and have not come to a settled view yet on his approach. <br />My own position is pretty straightforward - where the AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-86979784257489290062020-04-15T10:22:32.846+01:002020-04-15T10:22:32.846+01:00Well consider piece AM.
I tend to agree with Dr D...Well consider piece AM. <br />I tend to agree with Dr David Goodall, the 104 year old scientist who travelled from Australia to Switzerland in 2018 to end his own life;<br /><br /><i>“Everyone over middle age should have the right unquestioned to end their lives as and when they choose.”</i><br /><br />Having worked in a voluntary capacity with young people at risk I would though have to see Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-57811829240902406812020-04-14T14:57:26.882+01:002020-04-14T14:57:26.882+01:00So a teenage girl can kill herself due to PTSD etc...So a teenage girl can kill herself due to PTSD etc caused by abuse but we can't kill the rapist? Ok so no more tears for suicide victims then? Says a lot about us.MickOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06278524870773217698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-25924595925908460492020-04-14T12:33:36.690+01:002020-04-14T12:33:36.690+01:00an absurdity Peteran absurdity PeterAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-78930760158945261962020-04-14T12:33:02.898+01:002020-04-14T12:33:02.898+01:00Kevin - a wholly gratuitous circumstance. Death by...Kevin - a wholly gratuitous circumstance. Death by slow strangulation sounds like the type of death penalty administered by Franco: garrotting.AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-66579136948668833252020-04-14T12:30:20.083+01:002020-04-14T12:30:20.083+01:00I would subscribe to that view - it should be a hu...I would subscribe to that view - it should be a human right. If the pope chooeses to die in agony, his choice. But spare me a similar fate. I don't need to agonise because of his religious opinion. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-73311057215607632842020-04-14T11:58:07.434+01:002020-04-14T11:58:07.434+01:00We don't let dogs suffer but we do let humans ...We don't let dogs suffer but we do let humans suffer. Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027470398152153427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-59775615289380262162020-04-14T09:05:37.378+01:002020-04-14T09:05:37.378+01:00Kevin Hester says
Tony I suggest you interview P...<b> Kevin Hester says </b><br /><br />Tony I suggest you interview Philip Nitschke from Exit International on this subject.<br /><br />My family lost a sister/mother/wife to motor neurone disease. Her final moments were a slow strangulation.<br /><br />Our problem in Ireland is the patriarchal catholic church. They are torturing victims and their families imho.AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-47487561837540226292020-04-13T19:37:12.283+01:002020-04-13T19:37:12.283+01:00The bottom line for me in this debate is that ever...The bottom line for me in this debate is that every human being with the agency and autonomy to decide has the right based on property in one's person (from which the right to bodily integrity to determine the ending of their life if their pain is so much for them that life has ceased to have any meaning for them. Likewise, based on these human rights principles everyone has the right to Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.com