If you need urgent support, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. To contact our Crisis Messenger (open 24/7) text THEMIX to 85258.
Options
Take a look around and enjoy reading the discussions. If you'd like to join in, it's really easy to register and then you'll be able to post. If you'd like to learn what this place is all about, head here.
Comments
I can assure you that when a patient is in their final phase of terminal cancer there is no going back. Same applies to a a number of other diseases and conditions. Nothing, not even "gods" or "miracles" can reverse certain situations. And in those cases the humane and right thing to do is to allow the patient to die quickly, painlessly and peacefully.
And then there is the case of those patients who have given doctors specific instructions to help them die with dignity. In those cases, even if there is a small hope of recovery it does not matter: a person is and should be able to control their life and destiny. And if they have asked the help of a doctor in ending their lives, that help should be provided.
You seem to be so set in your opinions that you just want to believe everyone who disagrees with you would euthanise everyone with a terminal illness but if you ever actually read what was said you'd realise that's not always the case.
In the name of God we do NOT.
You utter retard, shut up.
I know this was pages ago everyone, just couldn't let it go.
please explain the moral difference between stopping artificial breathing for a person who cannot breathe for themselves and stopping artificial feeding for someone who cannot feed themselves.
and starving someone to death is not necessarily inhumane. my aunt died a couple of years ago, and after long discussion with her family, who expressed a desire to end her suffering as kindly as possible when she got to the semi conscious horrific pain stage, they ended up sedating her and taking out her drip. essentially dehydration contributed to her death, but she wasn't in any pain, and was not even aware of what was going on. in effect she went to sleep and never woke up.
Are you listening at all?
You seem to be under the impression we want to bump off everyone over the age of 60, whacking needles in people left and right.
Easing someone suffering is what hospice doctors do every day, thats what we are arguing they should be able to do in those very rare cases where suffering is prelonged and terminal.
mur•der
n.
The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice.
and
eu•tha•na•sia
n.
The act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment.
One of the above describes Dr Shipman’s behaviour.
(Clue for those who are confused: "Old age isn't an illness")
Therein lies the comparison.
Both breaking their Hippocratic Oath.
yup my gdad has lung cancer and needed heart bypass, they couldnt treat one witohut aggravating the other, in the end he died in his sleep and avoided all the misery and he was dosed up on morphine even if DRUGS ARE BAD DONT DO DRUGS..... :nervous: