The Judge
RAVES!
Date: 09/08/09
Showing The Way
There's an awful lot of bollocks talked about so-called 'assisted suicide'. The bollocks - largely (though not exclusively) inspired by superstition and fashionable paranoia - has so far prevented the laws of the UK from being changed to something more humane than the present situation, whereby someone helping a loved one out of an impossible existence faces prosecution and up to fourteen years imprisonment.
We have no choice about our arrival in the world. We have far less choice than we are led to believe in our passage through it. We should at least have the decisive say in the mode and timing of our departure from it.
With this in mind, please take the time to read this piece by someone who is facing just such a prospect.
