Poll: Terry Pratchet what the...

Euthanasia?

  • I'm in favour of assisted death for anyone who chooses it

    Votes: 252 41.4%

  • I'm in favour provided the person is suffering from a terminal condition

    Votes: 301 49.4%

  • I'm not in favour of assisted death

    Votes: 31 5.1%

  • I hold no opinion about it

    Votes: 25 4.1%
  • Total voters
    609
britboy4321 said:
A person on a bad LSD trip after having their drink spiked is sure that spiders are crawling out of her fingers, and wants to chop off her digits with a steak knife.

The LSD trip is so bad, she's probably going to die.

Should you respect their wishes and let her start madly hacking her fingers off so as to 'show her respect'?


Yet again -- whats the difference?
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The medical and psychological checks and procedures,
Yet another stupid scenario comparison.

Also you don't have to have the dignitas procedure. The uk could implement something much stricter and longer.
 
britboy4321 said:
A person on a bad LSD trip after having their drink spiked is sure that spiders are crawling out of her fingers, and wants to chop off her digits with a steak knife.

The LSD trip is so bad, she's probably going to die.

Should you respect their wishes and let her start madly hacking her fingers off so as to 'show her respect'?


Yet again -- whats the difference?
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You do realise the doctor checks your mental state right?
 
britboy4321 said:
A person on a bad LSD trip after having their drink spiked is sure that spiders are crawling out of her fingers, and wants to chop off her digits with a steak knife.

The LSD trip is so bad, she's probably going to die.

Should you respect their wishes and let her start madly hacking her fingers off so as to 'show her respect'?


Yet again -- whats the difference?
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You do understand they simply cannot walk in and be told to go through to another room where the procedure would be performed :S

There is a major difference between someone cutting their fingers off, and choosing to die.

If you honestly cannot see the difference, I pity you.
 
Delvis said:
Meh, don't read hundreds of books



What? Do you know who Kelly van Soest is without googling? No :p
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Except he sells 2.5 million books a year, and is the top 10 most read authors in the UK.

Kelly van Soest doesn't even have a wikipedia page.
 
I think everyone should be able to kill themselves whenever they want as long as in them doing so they don't distract anyone else carrying out their daily lives. For example, i am happy for somebody to hang themselves, however i think jumping in front of a car is very inconsiderate.

Your life is nobodies but your own. People are killing themselves all the time anyway, look at all the fatties giving themselves heart attacks, i'm pretty sure that is suicide assisted by McDonalds, but nobody cares about that.
 
britboy4321 said:
The whole argument is

'It's too much hassle ot go to Switzerland, where it can be legally done'

Yet then everyone spouts

'It has to be a load of hassle, to ensure the person makes the right choice'.


Just seems contradictory ..
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:confused:

Considering euthanasia is illegal in most countries, people want to be able to do it in close surroundings without travelling to Switzerland.

Do you not understand that most of the people who want to end their life are crippled in some way from doing it themselves? So it is 'hassle' to travel to Switzerland. And they don't want their relatives to be punished for doing it and they also want it to be a fast as possible and without pain, also without risk of it failing and ending up braindead instead.

Travelling when you have problems doing day to day things and you are in pain etc = Hassle
A long process to be allowed assisted suicide and ensure it's the right thing to do = Not hassle

Surely you are not so stupid that you can't see the difference.
 
Twentyone said:
:confused:

Considering euthanasia is illegal in most countries, people want to be able to do it in close surroundings without travelling to Switzerland.

Do you not understand that most of the people who want to end their life are crippled in some way from doing it themselves? So it is 'hassle' to travel to Switzerland. And they don't want their relatives to be punished for doing it and they also want it to be a fast as possible and without pain, also without risk of it failing and ending up braindead instead.

Travelling when you have problems doing day to day things and you are in pain etc = Hassle
A long process to be allowed assisted suicide and ensure it's the right thing to do = Not hassle

Surely you are not so stupid that you can't see the difference.
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I can't.

by definition the long process is designed to be hassle. The whole point of it is to be hassle, to test the persons conviction.

Why not just make it slightly less hassle, to exactly compensate against the grief of getting to Switzerland, so it ends back up at the 'right' level of hassle and everyone's happy?

Then we don't have to change anything, and the current system works exactly as you guys want! Surely a lot simpler than bothering changing the UK rules?
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Guys just add him to your ignore list. That's what I have done.
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It would be nice if the dons stopped him though, he's just winding people up over a serious matter. It's ridiculous.

He can have his silly little fantasy threads but this isn't the place for it.
 
britboy4321 said:
Why not just make it slightly less hassle, to exactly compensate against the grief of getting to Switzerland, so it ends back up at the 'right' level of hassle and everyone's happy?

Then we don't have to change anything, and the current system works exactly as you guys want! Surely a lot simpler than bothering changing the UK rules?
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Make it easier to do to compensate for having to travel to Switzerland? Is that really what you are saying?

And I see you ignored what I said about people wanting to die at home instead of in another country.

Is there even any point in trying...
 
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As humans we have control over very little. Should we choose that we wish to die then surely it is our own decision if we are sound of mind? My best friends late father was suffering with MS for a long time and she had a massive to do when her mum signed the DNR. That was a testing time for our friendship, she severely opposed it despite the fact that when her father was in better health he had already said that once he was beyond help he didn't want to be kept as a prisoner in his own body. I understand that a lot of it would have just been her not wanting to give up on her father, but I saw him quite often, and seeing him suffer to that extent made me pray for his day of release. Horrible disease.
 
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