Do you agree with Euthanasia..

PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 14, 2007 – When we were young we did the rounds of getting married, having children and then becoming grandparents never really giving much thought to dying, we were only concerned with getting on with our lives. Now we are older and having lived a full life and some of our friends and family are leaving us due to terminal illnesses it makes us think about when is it our turn. When you think of it, this society is a cruel society forcing people to endure a long slow lingering death. What is wrong with our society when we would not allow animals to suffer as some people do when passing on. How in god’s name can we not allow people who are diagnosed as terminally ill the right to release themselves from a body that no longer serves them and deprives them of all dignity.

In the past 3 weeks we have experienced the loss of my wife’s brother to cancer and my nephew in a horrible similar death due to MRSA and other complications, both were healthy active men that ended up weighing around 6 stones at the end. The father of the same nephew is expected to pass away any minute also with cancer. All three illnesses have been long drawn out and very painful, totally degrading three proud men, all of whom have battled to get out of bed and crawl to the toilet in an effort to keep their decency but ended up being treated like a baby with nappies and someone to do everything for them until their death. Their families were/are gathered around heartbroken unable to end their misery. My wife and I have witnessed this.  

We have also witnessed the death of our lovely daughter at 25 due to cancer leaving our 2 grandchildren without a mother and a son-in-law without a wife who doted on her. The effects our family have never recovered from. Somehow we expect older people like parents to go first which is heartbreaking enough but you never expect one of your children to go before you when they have all their life in front of them.

I have never thought of euthanasia before until this nightmares came upon our family. Maybe I’m a coward but there is a lot to be said for it in diagnosed terminal illness that are expected to drag on..