Wendy Duffy heart breaking but understandable

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What a brave lady i hope she's holding her son right now.

Why not? You're going to die eventually anyway, so why not give life a chance? After all, you can always choose to kill yourself later on if it doesn't work out, but you can't choose to come back to life if you kill yourself!

I conversely didn't support the assisted dying/suicide bill as I believe people would feel pressure to get it over with so their family didn't suffer watching them suffer.
This though, a compos mentis person choosing to end her life as she didn't want to live without her ds any longer seems totally understandable.

And there are many who end up severely disabled and need 24hr care because it failed. Killing yourself isn't as simple as people think

This is exactly how I see it. It's so patronising to say that you know better than the person living the mental/physical hell. How dare people say she shouldn't have done it. It's her body and her choice.

Why the publicity though does anyone know? It just seems an odd thing to do.

People are entitled to their opinions.

Yeah I wonder that too. I thought maybe she was a not-hugely-well-known-celebrity that I had never heard of. Why the publicity?

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Well thats kinda the point - if you are no longer in distress, you are at peace. Feeling nothing is peace.

One British person every week goes to Switzerland for assisted suicide some the press pick up on others they don't just like missing children or stabbings or dog attacks.

I wonder what percentage of people who are making serious suicide attempts end up severely disabled to the extent that they couldn't have another go? After all, I named three celebrities just up thread who all killed themselves using the same, pretty reliable, method.

I wondered if she sold her story to the papers ahead of time, to pay the clinic?

Ok yes, you can have an opinion on anything - but that doesn't give you the right to tell someone they should live a miserable life, every tortured and in anguish. Sometimes opinions are best kept to oneself.

One of the reasons I am not at all religious is that old saying "God never gives us more than we can handle". Well if that were true we wouldn't be having this discussion!

I read an interview with this lady. She's done all the counselling, anti depressants etc. It's why she was still alive, because she did try. Ultimately she couldn't do it anymore. It's sad but her choice. The way her son died would have weighed heavily on her too, a freak accident but one she probably blamed herself for, which wouldn't have helped. I really felt for her.

Maybe it was "selfish" but sometimes its ok to be selfish. She was under no obligation to keep suffering just so no one else would feel bad.

I have no idea its certainly not something I'm willing to google.

The press can't pick these cases up unless the person approaches them directly, it's all confidential.

Again, I'm not judging her just why approach the media and tell them this tragic story. Would surely add to the distress for relatives.

Live on in utter misery so that you can kill yourself further down the line? It makes no sense. What person would want that for someone they care for?

I think it’s selfish to dictate to adults whether they should live or die. And yes it is crass af to
tell someone who is suffering that they have to just keep on

Why not?

Suicide is apparently brave and wonderful, and the right choice for many people, so why would it be an issue to Google for the stats on how many poor souls were thwarted in their search for peace?

They said no fee was paid I believe. Anyway, maybe a goodbye to all her knew her. Who knows.

Actually it’s shocking at how many people are in favour of denying people the most basic right of all

Who knows it might of even be her relatives who went to the press. Or like pp said for money to actually do it

So three celebrities killed themselves and this is a template for suicide?

I do not agree that what this woman did was brave. I think figuring out who to overcome her grief and move forward in a positive way is brave. Suicide is the opposite.
Edit to add - I’m not against a right to choose but I don’t think ending one’s own life is a brave choice.

Because my bf died with the exact same method the celebrities you mentioned died and its not something I want to read up about in any detail

People really don’t understand how difficult it s to successfully commit suicide.. celebrities are mentioned, yes but they lived in the US where you can easily get a gun or fentanyl off the streets - a tiny amount will kill you instantly. In the UK we don’t have either. overdoses don’t work and will leave you permanently disabled. The assisted dying bill was voted down, begs the question why the government want to impose such cruelty on its citizens.