Malygris on 29/4/2006 at 16:16
Save the trouble, kill him now.
SD on 29/4/2006 at 16:28
Quote Posted by Convict
In this case we have a very rich country which seems worried that it will cost too much money to keep feeding/treating people with terminal illnesses.
I don't think it's necessarily the cost - it's simply pointless.
I mean for starters, someone is going to have to explain to me the benefits of pissing away tens of thousands of pounds just so a bed-ridden vegetable can linger on in agony for a few more weeks.
Convict on 29/4/2006 at 16:31
Call me a bleeding heart conservative if you will StD! ;) but if that man is not fed through a tube he will suffer as he dies of starvation for days on end.
OnionBob on 29/4/2006 at 16:57
Quote Posted by Convict
Call me a bleeding heart conservative if you will StD! ;) but if that man is not fed through a tube he will suffer as he dies of starvation for days on end.
hence euthanasia should be legalised
Para?noid on 29/4/2006 at 17:09
I don't know about anyone else, but if I was even remotely brain damaged and paralysed I'd definitely want the plug to be fucking pulled. The poor bastard, if he has the capacity to even feel starvation or anything else is probably screaming for a swift end in the horrible cage of flesh he resides.
Convict on 29/4/2006 at 17:14
Onionbob and Paranoid, the gentleman does not want to be euthanised. He wants the doctors to keep feeding him through a tube - "Leslie Burke who has a degenerative brain condition, won a landmark ruling last year to stop doctors withdrawing food and drink when he cannot speak".
Pirate Edit*:I see what Onionbob meant - the article doesn't give any indication that he wanted to be killed.
*Harr harr!
Chimpy Chompy on 29/4/2006 at 17:40
Apparently "mental faculties are not affected", so I'd consider this different to the "vegetable" stronts suggests. As in, his wishes should be respected - if he wants to remain in that prison of flesh (which I agree doesn't sound particularly enticing) then that's his choice I guess.
