A Stay Of Execution For Grannies.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/assisted-dying-in-doubt-as-rollout-could-be-delayed-until-at-least-2029-13335894

...put the extermination booths on hold for now.

[davebro3]

It'll come too late for me. Expect to die in agony!

[douglas9401]

You can smell another batch of fudge cooking away nicely.

[davebro3]

Other countries have legalised assisted dying - why is it here we (they) have to make such a convoluted song and dance about everthing only to end up satisfying no one.

[ToraToraTora]

09:12 ....because of where it innevitably leads. Fortunately we have examples of at least one country too naive to realise that up front:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ben-woodfinden-assisted-suicide-is-spiralling-out-of-control-in-canada

 

[douglas9401]

Or the numbers looking for the option have been vastly underestimated, of course that would be unlikely given the history of politics and the movers and shakers therein.

[Old_Geezer]

Where it inevitably leads is to prevention of end of life suffering.

[naomi24]

//because of where it innevitably leads. //

 

Where you think it leads is not inevitable.   You've cited Canada before.  We wouldn't allow animals to suffer what human beings are forced to suffer.

[bhg481]

Well I brought my child up properly and I have no fear of her having me put down so that she can have my money.

[Rosetta]

You have been lucky bhg, I've relatives who would sell ganny for sixpence if they thought they could get away with. Vultures circleing the coffin 

[Rosetta]

* I've seen relatives who would sell granny *

[jackthehat]

We need to ensure robust procedures are in place to prevent 'granny-cide'.

I think it is a fundamental right for people to be able to choose the time and manner of their death if they have been diagnosed with a terminal condition.

[Ellipsis]

Granny could always disinherit the vultures to stop temptation coming their way ... 

[DDIL]

Wouldn't sell my granny but I'd give away my MIL!

[barry1010]

I don't want anyone to volunteer for assisted suicide because they feel they are a burden to loved ones or the state. 

[bhg481]

I would volunteer for assisted dying if I thought I was causing my daughter to completely mess up her life to look after me. I don't feel I have the right to mess up other people nor should they have an obligation to give up their way of living for me.

[Ellipsis]

I had no choice about how I came into this life, I would like some choice about how I leave it ... 

[ToraToraTora]

naomi: "Where you think it leads is not inevitable.   You've cited Canada before.  We wouldn't allow animals to suffer what human beings are forced to suffer." - as usual the blind refuse to see, this is nothing to do with all the heart rending cases that arise when this subject is rasied, they should be allowed to die I agree but that's not the end of it. Canada and (even they cite) Belgium illustrated where it leads. Right to die becomes obligation to die and pretty soon we have euthanasia of anyone not reaching the latest spec for permission to live.

[ToraToraTora]

bhg: "Well I brought my child up properly and I have no fear of her having me put down so that she can have my money." - I fear the second part of that sentence negates the first.

[ToraToraTora]

11:56 but that is what happens, the start is just that, they feel guilt that they cost the state and their families, that feeling is encouraged. Pretty soon it's "grab grandad they have a 2 for 1 deal down at extermination R us".

No safe guards will stop it because they are all challengeable and will be challenged. Belgium and Canada had safe guards.

[naomi24]

TTT, //as usual the blind refuse to see//

 

Blind, according to you, because I disagree with you.