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Originally Posted by shattered sanity
i think assisted suicide is okay, as long as ther is really no other option, and no other treatment.
if a patient is really struggling, and fed up of what they are going through on a daily bases, then why shouldn't they be allowed to?
in the UK, i don't believe it's legal- but i did watch a documentry about a place in finland where you go, it's a special place for people that are being assisted to die
shocking fact for you: even though their were a lot of people who went their who chose to die because of physical reasons, pplenty went their because they were just tired of life itself, and they just couldn't see anyway forward.
it's narated by terry pratchett- well worth a watch.. even though their are plenty of triggery sceenes
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Your right its not legal in the UK and only recently been argued in the courts Sept last year.
The case was regarding the right to assisted suicide by men with locked in syndrome, they patitioned the courts for the right to choose death. It was very high profile unfortunately they did not win. I think it was close but fear for setting case law the judge was not prepared to set a precedence as that would bind all courts on same level and below to stand by their ruling. That is how it works in the UK. The Lord justice who ruled qualified his decision reported in the telegraph:
Lord Justice Toulson said that allowing the two men to be helped to end their lives would have implications far beyond their cases, and a ruling in Nicklinson's case in particular would have amounted to a major change in murder laws which exceeded the powers of the courts.
"It is not for the court to decide whether the law about assisted dying should be changed and, if so, what safeguards should be put in place," he said.
"Under our system of government these are matters for parliament to decide, representing society as a whole, after parliamentary scrutiny, and not for the court on the facts of an individual case or cases."
If you are interested in the topic of Euthanaisa this case is currently being appealed and still very much a hot topic for UK law.