A Short Stay in Switzerand - I am sat here crying

[KatyMac]

I hate it that this happens

It is bringing back all the memories of my nana starving to death because euthanasia is illegal

I couldn't watch it

it's very good indeed. although so sad, so difficult. i wish humans were equipped with an off-switch.

It is WRONG

i am blubbing but do think it right

oh i see katy i agree with you

its a difficult one....

seems so calm to be able to be like this

"sitting here " surely?

I mean it is wrong to treat people with so little respect

I wouldn't treat a cat like they treated my nana

do you think it will ever become legal here?

People would be viewed as cruel if they let their cat/dog suffer like that.

I sincerely hope that if I am ever in that situation then euthanasia will be legal by then.

From BBc site - Julie Walters stars in a one-off drama inspired by the true story of Dr Anne Turner, who in 2006 took her own life in a Zurich clinic having developed an incurable degenerative disease.

Very sad.

I'm all weepy now going to bed

icup - perlease

God how harrowing was that? I have mascara all down my chops and dh has gone out snivelling and he only saw about five minutes of it.

the sons words broke my heart

sobbing here too

very very sad,my daughter phoned me the minute it finished and she thought the same.I too believe in euthanasia if that is what the ill person requests and there is no hope they will recover .Julie walters played a great part i thought

Pro choice should be just that.

YOUR life, YOUR choice.

Always.

god why do the bbc love to show these type ofprogrammes on a sunday night they're brainwashing you

how can they be brainwashing you?

aren't you your own person to decide?

tbe bbc like to wallow inthe awdfulness of society

the awfulness of society is keeping people alive when its aginst their wishes and are in terrible pain ect.I too know what i would choose.

the story is interesting, and I, personally, agree that the law and system is currently wrong, and have huge sympathies for the real family - and others in similar situations but I thought the drama was rubbish. I thought it was badly scripted and that the three children came across as shallow dipsticks.

I thought it was very well played by all, I too worked with high dependancy Dementia/alzheimers and parkinsons sufferers unit in a residential care home.

I think that gievn the chance most of the would end their lives, they are living in hell most of them trapped inside their own bodies not being able to control any part of it. I know if it were me I wouldn't want to live like that and TBH I wouldn't like tot hink of my family in that type of situation either.

BUT I don't think it should be legalised because there are so many people who would use it in the wrong way, how do you distinguish between euthanasia and murder if it's legal?