'Assisted Dying'? Yes or No?

[WifeOfMacbeth]

Am thinking about this one at the moment.
Are you in favour? Against? Not sure?
I'm also wondering whether views change as we get older....

Yes in principle
No in practice.

Its one of these this is why we cant have nice things issues.

there are people out there who WILL abuse this.

Euthanasia is also a feminist issue which I didn't realise for ages.
Sorry for horrible long links but articles like this changed my mind.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2025/02/how-the-assisted-dying-bill-could-unleash-male-violence&ved=2ahUKEwiRh9OfheSNAxUMnP0HHa48LKQQxfQBKAB6BAgGEAE&usg=AOvVaw21_zdWhylnj1D18ntOyrE6

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.ladyscience.com/ideas/physician-assisted-suicide-feminist-issue&ved=2ahUKEwiRh9OfheSNAxUMnP0HHa48LKQQxfQBKAB6BAgNEAE&usg=AOvVaw2vPVF5bzM_FGe-hpVKOH--

Yes, but properly overseen.

Yes, she did.

No. I would prefer to see better palliative care, hospice places for everyone that needs one. Dying in hospital is very different to dying at home or hospice.

Well said. That's my thoughts exactly. Their body, their life.

I said upthread, I'd like a little foil-covered tablet in my bedside table to give me the choice. Something that I could take before bed to make sure I had a deep, never-ending sleep if the time felt right. My sister was poorly for 4/5 months and eventually diagnosed with NHL and put on some blood tablets while she waited for her oncology appt. 6 days later, I found her dead in bed from a DVT, she was in her normal sleeping position and looked very peaceful. That's how I'd like to go. Oh, and the hospital letter arrived the next day.

I would like to be able to choose not to live any more, but that's not quite the same thing.

I am being treated for cancer - currently no evidence of disease but it's pretty likely that it will come back. I am, at present, early at the end of a year of medication that has made me feel.exhausted and extremely unwell. I don't want to feel like this for the rest of my life. If my cancer comes back and is incurable I don't want the last few months of my life to be spent in pain and reliant on other people for everything - rather than being in pain and just waiting for my next dose of morphine, I would rather just have a nice overdose and slip away gently.

I don't want to struggle on in pain waiting for permission for somebody to give me that release, with all the heartache that will give my family. But I do want it to be MY choice and not what somebody else thinks it is what should happen. Or not.