How many more of these sad cases have to trudge through the courts before the law is changed?

[jake-the-peg]

Yet another badly damaged person just asking to allow a doctor to be allowed to end his life safe from prosecution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19249680

And yet they won't take action if they go to Switzerland and act under the law there

Isn't this just a case of moral cowardice from successive governments of all persuasions?

[pdq1]

There is enough killing going on in our hospitals without giving doctors licence to end a person's life. DNR is rife in many hospitals Many disabled feel quite uneasy already from offspring wanting them to die so that they can inherit the estate. They will also feel a burden and end their lives to prevent care having to be administered at home.

Nobody would object to suicide if they felt that way and maybe assisted suicide is the answer.

[naomi24]

Actually, I think we've gone a little off track here. This is about people being allowed to choose to die rather than about others making that choice for them when they are no longer able to.

[emmie]

perhaps, but there was a DNR notice put on my o/h bed, but no one had said that was what he wanted, he hadn't nor us.

[naomi24]

That's odd, Em. I've never known that to happen without the family being consulted. Did you question it?

[emmie]

damn right we did, and we were fobbed off, the hospital was awful, the nursing staff worse, as to the consultant, he was a boorish arrogant bstard.

[naomi24]

At such a time, that's so sad. It must have been very difficult for you.