Assisted Suicide - Isle of Man

Cheesenbiscuits said:
Be interesting to see the outcome of this.
Should this be allowed? I’m sure many would support this see loved ones in pain and suffering.
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No right or wrong answer to this question and how you feel today may change if a loved one was suffering.

I followed the case of David Hunter who assisted his wife to die after she pleaded with him whilst suffering from blood cancer. I don't think any of us could say how we would react and what we would do to prevent a loved one from suffering.

I do feel people should be allowed to live and die with dignity.
 
My dad is in a care home with serious mental and phyical health issues that have spiralled since my Mam past away four years ago. In this time he has become a shadow of the Dad we so respected which breaks our hearts.
He often says to me that he just wants to go to Mam and pleads for help. Very sad and distressing for all of us!
 
Craggsy2 said:
My dad is in a care home with serious mental and phyical health issues that have spiralled since my Mam past away four years ago. In this time he has become a shadow of the Dad we so respected which breaks our hearts.
He often says to me that he just wants to go to Mam and pleads for help. Very sad and distressing for all of us!
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In an almost exact situation as you. A very proud man who can’t do anything for himself and as Norman says should be allowed to die with dignity.
He is of sound mind and repeatedly wishes to be out out of his misery.
 
Craggsy2 said:
My dad is in a care home with serious mental and phyical health issues that have spiralled since my Mam past away four years ago. In this time he has become a shadow of the Dad we so respected which breaks our hearts.
He often says to me that he just wants to go to Mam and pleads for help. Very sad and distressing for all of us!
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It is very hard for everyone when a loved one is asking for support like that, hard for them to ask and hard for loved ones to hear.
 
I dont think I have a particular moral judgement on it either way as everyone's circumstances are different but what I would say is that I'd far rather see this than the suicides we see every day that hurt families, cause problems for wider society where literally the only difference is that those in care don't have that way out.
 
There was a documentary on this subject a while back and it followed families who were considering and those who went through this process. It seemed a tragedy that they had to travel to a foreign country for them to be granted their wishes.

Both my mother in law and mother suffered in their latter days, and although neither of them had expressed a wish for assisted suicide, both of them did ask for help towards the end.

We had been told by doctors that the mother in law had hours to live and she lived for another two weeks crying out in pain. We would not have allowed an animal to suffer in the manner she did.

My own mother didn't suffer as much but was crying out in pain in her latter days. Medical staff knew she wasn't going to recover but allowed her to go on in pain, why?
 
There is nothing dignified about being kept alive long after your body can support life, simply because we have the machines and drugs to do so, and then to not even have a choice in the matter.
 
Watched my mum wither away whilst every day getting massive pain killer injections and a drip. She was not lucid, hardly conscious and didn't recognise anyone around her. The Macmillan nurses were brilliant, I honestly don't know how they do what they do every day without it having serious consequences for their own mental health but I am grateful for them all. In the end one of them came and told us that she didn't think there were more than 12 - 24 hours left and so it was, my mum was by then a husk and it was extremely painful to see for us all. I am not saying we would have taken that decision as she did not ask - indeed could not ask. But the choice should be there if wanted
 
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