Decision to end lives should be ours alone (From Oxford Mail)
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Decision to end lives should be ours alone
10:00am Monday 30th January 2012 in Letters
IN the Oxford Mail on January 21, Mr Tony Baldry MP spoke about whose decision it should be for the right to die.
He said that only the Almighty should decide who and when we should die.
I think first that Mr Baldry should come down off that high pedestal he is on, to planet Earth.
I suppose he is in quite good health. I wonder what his feelings would be if he, like many people, were suffering in agony 24 hours a day for weeks, months or years at a time, knowing each day they wake from their night’s torment, they will have to go through it all again.
What would he surmise should be done by the Almighty if he was confined to a wheelchair day in, day out, for years and in constant distress, not only with the ailment but also with the depression of not being able to do anything for oneself and knowing there will be no cure?
We make our own way and decisions, right or wrong, to do the best we can possibly do.
When the end of our life’s journey is near, the decision should be the individual’s, when the mind and body can take no more.
BILL GOODWIN Pebble Hill Radley
Comments(3)
OxfordResident
says...
4:21pm Mon 30 Jan 12
Darkforbid wrote:No, exactly the opposite. They are campaigning to allow people to make the decision themselves.
Yes it should be, but what 'right to die' activists are doing is trying to make someone else’s responsibility to do it for them... which is very wrong
Darkforbid
says...
8:23pm Mon 30 Jan 12
They are campaigning to
allow people to make the
decision themselves.┄
Their asking doctors to provide the drugs to end life... Not really why most decided on this job, in certain cases of extreme suffering they already allow morphine to be increased until the body stops... Seeing that happen when its somebody you love, forces you to understand this is not easy to do even when you know it ends the pain of a loved one...
Darkforbid says...
11:48am Mon 30 Jan 12