CPS

[Digit]

The CPS are gonna have one hell of a problem with this!

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... rds_Ruling

Roy.

 

[RogerS]

How so? I would have thought that it was business-as-usual for them. True - it's a thorny and contentious issue but there have been many more before this one. Abortion for one, springs to mind.

From a personal viewpoint, it's my life and if it gets sufficiently bad that I don't wish to continue living then I'd want to go to somewhere like Dignitas and with a loved one(s) if they wished to come with me and that they should be free to do so without the risk or fear of prosecution. I repeat....it is my life and anyone that thinks that they should dictate to me that 'it is wrong' from any religious, moralistic high-ground or whatever can go and swivel. Who gives them the right to tell me what to do? Too many interfering busybodies around already.

 

[Digit]

I agree with your personal view Rog, but I was wondering what will happen if people cannot travel to Switzerland.
As UK law stands assisting a suicide is a crime, the CPS cannot alter that.

Roy.

 

[woodbloke]

Agreed, it is a crime, but for how much longer I wonder? Interestingly, no partners have been prosecuted on their return from Switzerland - Rob

 

[StevieB]

I get the feeling that it is not the media cases that are the reason for objecting to this, but rather the precident it sets for people to encourage others to take such a course of action. The general feeling seems to be that a terminally ill person should be allowed assisted suicide if that is their wish. The grey area comes when old grandma is bed ridden and perhaps going gaga, needing 24 hour care but physically she is well and could live for another 10 years or more. The naysayers are suggesting that in such a case 'assisted suicide' may be a way out of the situation for the RELATIVES rather than a choice made by the grandmother. An alternative is that an elderly relative chooses such an option purely because they feel they are a burden to their family.

Its an ethical dilemma, like abortion mentioned earlier, that will never convert everyone to one side or the other and passions and feelings will run high on both sides. All we need now is for european lawyers to start sticking their noses in and this will drag on for years!

Steve.