I agree with the right to die. Do any of you want to be put into those prisons they call care centres - there is absolutely no compassion and it cannot be legislated.

It is expensive to go to places where it is legal - Oregon, Belgium and the Netherlands for example


If you are wealthy you can take care of your final days but if you do not have the cash needed you are put into these prisons

If a person wishes to end their life that should be their decision

I am really annoyed with CKNW for playing the comment on the radio from the lady at the hearing. She makes it sound like if the law is struck down it would be a free for all to get rid of people we don't like. How one sided can you get!? And Hasbrouck is completely out to lunch. We would follow the States and countries that have allowed assisted suicides and set up safeguards to prevent people from "forcing" the disabled and elderly into the position of ending their own lives. The problem we face is that we don't look at dying and death as part of life which it is. No person, animal or other creature escapes death. We should be allowed to die peacefully with loved ones around us rather than go on living and horrifically suffering to death from some debilitating painful malady.
The medical profession needs to change its outlook. They look at life as a benefit and death is a harm so they are supposed to do no harm but as I said above death is part of life. How is it a harm to help someone die peacefully versus leaving them to degenerate into a state where they suffer in great pain and/or are otherwise so incapacitated they can no longer die peacefully? Making people suffer to the end of their lives is not only a harm to the dying person but is also a harm to their loved ones who have to watch them suffer to death.