RE: Assisted suicide?
January 7, 2012 at 6:39 am
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2012 at 6:40 am by Welsh cake.)
Jokes aside, the fact that assisted suicide and suicide legislation in general has always been criminalised, and even in modern times families of those who killed themselves would face legal penalties shows we humans, as a species, are savage, cruel, deplorable and by corollary don't deserve to live.
We are a barbaric lot for lacking an ounce of compassion of those who take their own lives for whatever the reason and create laws against suicide, invoking them with asinine religious doctrine. The bullshit claim that only God has the right to determine when a person will die. If God is real, fuck God, such a being doesn't know what it means to live a life as a mortal creature without absolute power or knowledge. The existence of deities should not dictate the length and scope of our existences.
We don't care people lack the will to continue, yet were so heartless here in the UK, suicide was called "Felo de se" ("felon of himself") in early English common law. The adult who killed themselves would forfeit all property back to the king. I imagine their families would be evicted. They'd get a shameful burial where a stake would be driven through their heart and be buried at a crossroad. It shows we have no empathy for each other and cannot even afford to each one another dignity in death.
At least when the Suicide Act of 1961 when enforced it decriminalised the act of suicide. Those who failed to take their own lives would no longer be prosecuted for doing so.
However we still need to challenge the woefully inadequate Human Rights Act 1998, that ironically robs us of our right to die. A famous case was of Diane Pretty who suffered from motor neurone disease. Her condition was awful and she only a few weeks to live. Diane was frightened and distressed by the suffering and indignity. She couldn't bear the agony any longer and wanted her husband to assist in ending her life.
She didn't want her husband to be held liable so asked the Director of Public Prosecutions to agree not to prosecute. The bastards refused, stating "Everyone's right to life shall be protected by law".
She later died of natural causes. By trying to protect the sanctity of human life, the UK and European Union policies have diminished it. English common law still stands in that "dying is an inevitable consequence of life".
The fuckers in charge have basically stated the right to life under the Convention of Human Rights necessitates the right to "have nature take its course". How the hell does "the personification of nature" have the final say over the right to die?
The law is fucked up, its lack of clarity is a breach of people's human rights, and in dire need of revision.
We are a barbaric lot for lacking an ounce of compassion of those who take their own lives for whatever the reason and create laws against suicide, invoking them with asinine religious doctrine. The bullshit claim that only God has the right to determine when a person will die. If God is real, fuck God, such a being doesn't know what it means to live a life as a mortal creature without absolute power or knowledge. The existence of deities should not dictate the length and scope of our existences.
We don't care people lack the will to continue, yet were so heartless here in the UK, suicide was called "Felo de se" ("felon of himself") in early English common law. The adult who killed themselves would forfeit all property back to the king. I imagine their families would be evicted. They'd get a shameful burial where a stake would be driven through their heart and be buried at a crossroad. It shows we have no empathy for each other and cannot even afford to each one another dignity in death.
At least when the Suicide Act of 1961 when enforced it decriminalised the act of suicide. Those who failed to take their own lives would no longer be prosecuted for doing so.
However we still need to challenge the woefully inadequate Human Rights Act 1998, that ironically robs us of our right to die. A famous case was of Diane Pretty who suffered from motor neurone disease. Her condition was awful and she only a few weeks to live. Diane was frightened and distressed by the suffering and indignity. She couldn't bear the agony any longer and wanted her husband to assist in ending her life.
She didn't want her husband to be held liable so asked the Director of Public Prosecutions to agree not to prosecute. The bastards refused, stating "Everyone's right to life shall be protected by law".
She later died of natural causes. By trying to protect the sanctity of human life, the UK and European Union policies have diminished it. English common law still stands in that "dying is an inevitable consequence of life".
The fuckers in charge have basically stated the right to life under the Convention of Human Rights necessitates the right to "have nature take its course". How the hell does "the personification of nature" have the final say over the right to die?
The law is fucked up, its lack of clarity is a breach of people's human rights, and in dire need of revision.
