Euthanasia

Euthanasia means departing this life in your own time, in comfort. It was illegal to commit suicide once which seemed absurd. Hanging failed perpetrators struck me as down right silly even then. This area seems to be getting more sensible.

Death Is A Growth Industry. Switzerland Leads The Way [ 18 April 2011 ]
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Britons are travelling in record numbers to kill themselves at the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland, figures revealed yesterday. The number of British suicides at the Zurich clinic has risen from an average of 14 a year between 2002 and 2007 to a total of 76 – about 25 a year – from 2008-2010.

The increase coincides with British authorities’ more tolerant policy towards people helping in Dignitas deaths, in particular since Keir Starmer QC became Director of Public Prosecutions in 2008. No individual has yet been prosecuted over any of the Britons who have died at Dignitas..........

The Dignitas figures show that 160 Britons have died at the clinic since 2002, one in six of all suicides there. There have been 118 Swiss and 592 German deaths.
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Death does not come cheap in Switzerland at some £4,000 a time. There are much more cost effective approaches. A friendly vet could undercut Dignitas and make a very useful profit. It would have to be a private arrangement which has important tax advantages.

 

Dial A Death Helpline Is Coming [ 28 April 2011 ]
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A right-to-die pressure group provoked outrage yesterday over plans to sponsor the UK's first helpline aimed at speeding the terminally ill towards 'a good death'. The free phone line, to be set up by a  charity called Compassion in dying, will 'promote greater patient choice and control where possible'.  The charity is an offshoot of euthanasia campaign Dignity in Dying [ Email: info@dignityindying.org.uk Tel: 020 7479 7730 ] and is led by the right-to-die group's chief executive Sarah Wootton, a former sex equality and abortion campaigner.
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Go in comfort or go on the NHS? It is an easy choice if you have seen what they do.