tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post7666541406049603227..comments2023-08-08T11:48:10.725+01:00Comments on swisslet: killing me softly....swisslethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708248700851998044noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-89515769676508004212012-08-18T14:04:27.626+01:002012-08-18T14:04:27.626+01:00This subject is something which is very close to h...This subject is something which is very close to home for me. My Mum has had MS for 40 years and for the last five years she has been largely confined to a chair, doubly incontinent and for the most part utterly miserable. She was a beautiful, vibrant funny person who has been robbed of her dignity in the cruellest possible way. Her quality of life is crap - some of it is down to MS, some of it is down to a vicious circle of lifestyle choices (diet etc) but depression has also robbed her of her fight and motivation to do everything she can to help herself. She almost died from pneumonia last year and spent seven months in hospital recovering. Modern medicine saved her but for what purpose. The first night she came out of hospital she was inconsolable and as she grabbed my hand she said she wished she hadn't survived. This was hard for me to hear but I "got" it. I know there are times where she has thought about taking her own life but she has now reached a stage where she probably wouldn't be able to do it on her own but I also know that she would never ask her family to help her because she would worry about what would happen to us. <br /><br />Advances in modern medicine mean that chronically ill people are now surviving longer and whilst this is great for those people who do want to live, it is a double-edged sword for those people who are ready to die. Their only other option is to take their own life or ask a family member to help them to do it. <br /><br />I don't have any answers but I do think society in general needs to start debating these issues and think about where modern medicine is taking us.<br /><br />floydmolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05285914897180786433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-73521036853957493402012-08-17T20:29:37.833+01:002012-08-17T20:29:37.833+01:00Another thought-provoking post.
From my own point...Another thought-provoking post.<br /><br />From my own point of view, while he has my sympathy, there is one clear reason why Tony Nicklinson was not granted his right to die: he can still communicate, however crudely. He still has the ability to think for himself. True, he uses a board and electronics that operate by eyesight, but he can still communicate. <br /><br />It sounds to me that he has the ability to think. And that is that he has in common with someone else: Stephen Hawking. Both have the same ability to think, but obviously at different ends of the scale. <br /><br />Just my thoughts, that's all. But I do say again, he has my sympathy.<br /><br /><br /><br />Threelighthttp://www.threelightsnews.com/reduxnoreply@blogger.com