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RLB · (#7 (**permalink**))

Society measures itself by how it cares for its ill (in theory it does anyways). If you want to kill yourself, you can’t be sane so you must be insane or at the vary least ill and therefore you need help.

In the case of terminally ill people, the bible says its against gods law to kill yourself basically because, people who have vary little in this world would kill themselves to get to ‘paradise’ sooner. This country is still Christian based but only when it suit itself to be.

Also, pressure could be placed on people to end their lives. For example let’s say you have a elderly woman who is well off financially, her greedy children want to cash in on their inheritance but the old codger just won’t die. She’s 97 and shows little sign of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel any time soon. Her family could subtlety put pressure on her to over dose on her blood pressure medication and then…..PARTY ££££

£££!!!

Let’s say a police man was walking down a busy high street, he looks up and sees a guy climb out of a office building and stand on the ledge prepared to jump, if suicide wasn’t illegal, the officer would not have any duty to intervene, he could continue to walk his beat. Can you image that?

As much as we may think this is a ‘Big Brother’ state it doesn’t have eyes everywhere ….yet. The law recognises that it can’t stop people from actually killing themselves in private but it (the law) deputises us all and says that we all have a duty to prevent someone, be it a family member or a complete stranger, from killing themselves. If we stand by and just watch we could be arrested and charged with assisted suicide or some other charge.

Like I said the law knows it can do little to stop you, but it sure as hell isn’t going to help you. A woman has an argument with her boyfriend and decides to ‘show him’ -as is the way with women. She pops into her local chemist and asks the pharmacist “So what have you got the will kill me the quickest and with the least amount of pain?” The pharmacist hands her a bottle with a cyanide table in it and charges her £10.50!

And all this is legal? Would your feeling be towards the chemist if that was your girlfriend sister or daughter?

The law makes sense in theory, but in practise we know things aren’t always so clear cut.

This debate only really becomes a complicated one when talking about people so ill so racked with pain that they are confined to bed and so can’t end their lives without assistance form someone else but that leads back to my second point.