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Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
23rd January 2014, 11:09
The plight of Tony Nicklinson, a man with locked-in syndrome that passed away in 2012, was not quite enough to really ignite the debate around someone's legal right to die at a time of their choosing. There was some media attention because of the High Court battle but it subsided pretty soon after his passing.
Luckily, a popular soap gave a fictional character a terminal illness and allowed her to kill herself, so people are interested again...for the minute. I hate that it's taken a crap soap to get the issue somewhere near the table again, but that's the way it is now I suppose. (shit, even The Sun ran a poll where over 70% of the respondants were for euthenasia based on whats-her-names plight on Coronation Street...)

So, your thoughts on euthenasia / suicide, please.

The Feral Underclass
23rd January 2014, 11:12
In terms of the bourgeois paradigm, it should be legal, obviously, but these cases do annoy me. They keep coming to the Supreme Court, which rules the same thing everytime: It requires an act of parliament to make this legal.

Criminalize Heterosexuality
23rd January 2014, 11:12
I don't see the problem, to be honest. I think we should allow people to dispose of their bodies as they see fit, as long as they don't injure anyone, and since neither euthanasia nor suicide injures anyone...

Ritzy Cat
23rd January 2014, 12:24
Completely for it. The arguments against it are somewhat ridiculous , along the lines of the person supposedly not being sane to make that decision regarding his life, but it's really more so the handicap inferiority that they are trying to perpetuate.