Scotland To Endorse Assisted Dying

[Thorpist]

On 28/03/2024 at 23:30, echo beach said:

Enjoy it while you can. Life’s precious.

There is the problem when you get to a stage where you cannot enjoy life and there is no prospect of one getting to stage where life can be enjoyed the person should be able to make their own descion

[echo beach]

4 minutes ago, Thorpist said:

There is the problem when you get to a stage where you cannot enjoy life and there is no prospect of one getting to stage where life can be enjoyed the person should be able to make their own descion

And many people do everyday by committing suicide. I feel extremely sorry for individuals who feel that’s the only way out.

 

echo.

[peak4]

An article I came across a couple od weeks ago makes for fairly powerful reading; 

 

‘We need to talk about choice’: woman who ended life at Dignitas urges change to UK law   The Guardian

On the eve of her death in Switzerland Paola Marra told the Guardian about her journey and her wish that she could have died at home

[Anna B]

3 hours ago, Thorpist said:

There is the problem when you get to a stage where you cannot enjoy life and there is no prospect of one getting to stage where life can be enjoyed the person should be able to make their own descion

If you are not in pain and being well looked after by kind people there's no doubt you can live out your days in contented peace and quiet, enjoying the small pleasures of life quite happily. 

 

All the pressure is on the people doing the looking after, and such care is very expensive to the point where it will eat up every last penny you've got.

It's not always possible to be looked after at home by relatives because of severe needs, and because they will have to sacrifice years of their life and probably their jobs, and end up in penury themselves as a result.

 

People are quite capable of living into their 100's and beyond these days. Is it selfish to want to stay alive in those circumstances? or selfish expecting relatives to sacrifice young lives for old? Is it wrong of them to feel resentful of the elderly in those circumstances? Should love always be the deciding factor? Or should there be a 'cut off' point, beyond which hanging onto life is selfish and untenable? I honestly don't know, but I do know elderly people who definitely 'don't want to be a burden' even with the most loving of children..  and because they love their children literally more than life itself...

 

I think their should be legal options. I've always thought my cut off point would be 85 beyond which it's all downhill and bad news anyway so time to call it quits regardless of health, (but as I get older I admit I'm thinking of pushing it up to 90 🤒...

But then there's the sanctity of life argument... Like I said, I really don't know, so I'm really interested in what other people think. 

[echo beach]

At my age Anna I’d push it up to 125. That would do nicely, thank you.😃

 

echo.