It would provide murderers with a cast iron defence. Force feed them a cyanide pill and you're a free man.
The risk of abuse of the system is too high.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 1,501
Quote: Jennie @ 6th April 2014, 11:53 PM BSTThe one thing pro-euthanasia legislation will definitely cause is death..
Not necessaryily dear old Terry Pratchett has set things up so he can go when his Alzheimer's is to bad. In the mean time he decided to make the best of his life and has written another half dozen books at a faster rate thanks to dictation software. But he's rich enough I guess to take a Leer jet to Dignitas.
Other's choose to die much earlier than they would like, for fear of not being able to make the journey.
And that's not even getting onto quality of life.
Quote: Jennie @ 6th April 2014, 11:56 PM BSTIt would provide murderers with a cast iron defence. Force feed them a cyanide pill and you're a free man.
The risk of abuse of the system is too high.
Ok that was flippant there would always be the issue of living wills etc.
I think we're wedded to a dated, bronze age idea that life is a gift from God, the great spirit whatever and only they can take it back.
I've seen so many miserable, joyless and expensive lives for nothing.
Quote: sootyj @ 6th April 2014, 11:59 PM BSTI think we're wedded to a dated, bronze age idea that life is a gift from God, the great spirit whatever and only they can take it back.
I've seen so many miserable, joyless and expensive lives for nothing.
Thanks to healthy living and ever increasing longevity, you get to be a 68 year old man working a 40 hour week collecting shopping trolleys in Tesco's car park thinking about your dead wife all day.
Yesterday I saw an elderly couple shuffling down the street holding hands. The each had a walking stick in their other hand that they were moving in tandem. From the waist down it looked like a giant six legged alien creature.
It was lovely.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 6th April 2014, 11:46 PM BST'The pensioner said she had suffered from ill-health in recent years and was worried that a further deterioration might result in her going into a nursing home.'
She also said that she never owned a telly, so obviously a nutter.
It's maybe a bit cruel to call her a nutter but there's a grain of truth there. I'm in my 60's and get a bit horrified by contemporaries who regard computers as the work of the devil, but they just shrug their shoulders and get on with living life without Facebook etc. That's the healthy way. If it drives you to suicide, I reckon you have other problems.
Quote: Jennie @ 7th April 2014, 12:12 AM BSTYesterday I saw an elderly couple shuffling down the street holding hands. The each had a walking stick in their other hand that they were moving in tandem. From the waist down it looked like a giant six legged alien creature.
It was lovely.
Christ! Is that where I'm heading?
Quote: sootyj @ 5th April 2014, 2:16 PM BSTHolland?
I did start the original obsessive and pathetic rant by naming Dominic Holland. Whom I should be able to avoid for some considerable time now.
Rob Brydon in the Indie on saying people aren't funny. 'He chuckles at himself and his success, but also gets properly upset at people who declare certain comedians are categorically "not funny". ("A ludicrous statement! There's no logic, no sense to it. Just say: 'It's not to my taste.'")'
Red face.
How depressing
I think it sounds hilarious.
Just picture the middle aged truffle shuffle
Can't wait to see it!
Quote: zooo @ 7th April 2014, 11:43 AM BSThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/07/goonies-sequel-richard-donner-feldman-brolin-astin-cohen?CMP=twt_gu
Goonies sequel.
Peaches Geldof has just been reported dead by the BBC.
That is tragic.
Depressing.