Assisted dying bill.

[motorbiking]

It was never fit for purpose to start with. In my view there was no logic in making it only available to people with 6 months to live and the whole process of applying for a "divorce from life" is nuts.

 

[Murdochcat]

Passing the assisted dying bill is long over due.

You can take yourself to Dignitas, Switzerland but what if you are disabled?

I have zero faith in parliament voting this through as too many MPs are too worried about what their constituents will think

So either allow a blind vote or put it to the people.

Let us decide, not the muppets in the HoC

 

[JohnD]

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[Justin Passing]

Because unlike many physical illnesses, depression can be treated.

You're depressed I assume, judging by your posts.

 

[Highway Man]

Oh? How?

If you mean I can do it now, yes, I can, easily. The only difference is that there's nobody to come and watch.

Religion is inevitably bound up in this, but if you remove all of that, then getting out of bed/chair/off the floor in the morning, is pretty pointless. Once you've had your life hollowed out/amputated by in my case, the death of a lifelong partner, there's no fun, no enjoyment, just a steepening struggle to get to the next, steeper bit, to merely stay alive. That's just a built-in urge without which there wouldn't be the species, but theres no value in having it, as far as I can see.

I'm a pile of "chattels" which nobody I know particularly needs or would want to wade through, except for monetary value.
But the law won't allow me to roll up at some appropriate facility to say, "ok I'm ready".
Why?

You have gone or are going through the wars mate, how long has this been?

 

[Justin Passing]

Mine is is a factual situation - philosphical if you like. Depression is qualitatively different.
Life has pleasant bits and unpleasant bits.
- Sure, it's clearest where someone has a rapid physical degradation
If the balance tips and the trajectory is clear then why would anyone want more of it?
That's not an illness in itself.