Because it's making God look like he has no control....?

oh that Minister for Ageing had the most annoying voice. wonder if he'll change his mind when he has to sit about in a chair all day, in complete pain, waiting for someone to help him in the toilet?

I've been hanging out here

Can't find the transcript of the show but the threads make for interesting reading.

I really can't see Euthenasia being legalised for awhile, even under a Labour government. Shithouse as.

Welcome to democracy slave.. you're here to be regulated, indoctrinated and controlled.. its in every transaction of life to be registered and stamped, taxed, patented, licensed, assessed, measured, reprimanded and correct under the name of 'public good'. Please bend the fuck over.

Because medicine makes more money off you when you're sick and dying than when you're dead?

That too.. especially if you've scored a nice first world disease like cancer

euthanasia happens every day in australia. voluntary euthansia is for people who want to die and lack imagination. like fuck that laptop program death, go and drive your car off a cliff or wrestle a great white shark or see how many pills you can take whilst balancing on tower. this country's stuffed.

seriously, what're they going to do, arrest your corpse? teh! i spit on this debate.

I assume it involves people too weak/in pain to do anything interesting, sting.

and those of us you'd prefer not to pay for our last whack-o-smak to take us into the ether

hangs head and walks away slowly from thread

who'd even.. fuck me I'm retarded more than normal today

my method of euthanasia is to take a sleeping pill and rest my head in a heated room on a pillow of ice under which is an industrial drill. there's also a bear in the room.

" there's also a bear in the room."

raises eyebrow

the bear has rabies and is also really angry

i'm sure he does.

and is

Twas an interesting debate. Indeed, Chris Pyne is a pig-faced ministerial regurgitation machine bred from elitist conservative Adelaide private education. But that's his job, so that's fine. Listening to GY!BE today I was intrigued by the rant at the start:

"...and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides, and a dark wind blows. The government is corrupt, and we're on so many drugs, with the radio on and the curtains drawn. We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine..."

Trapped in the belly of this horrible machine particularly describes the crappiness of a long, drawn out death with a lack of appropriate palliative care.

asphyxiation seems a peaceful way to go.

they always struggle. so i think not,

death by exposure is my favourite

Who do you have in mind, TM?

people play a choking game. get a kick out of air starvation.

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they always struggle. so i think not,

UR DOIN IT RONG

A landmark decision in Western Australia's Supreme Court has given a Perth quadriplegic the right to refuse food from his care provider.

However:

Last week, Dr Scott Blackwell from Palliative Care WA Inc warned people not to confuse Mr Rossiter's case with euthanasia.
Dr Blackwell says the case is not about murder laws, but about the right of the state's residents to refuse treatment.

''All Western Australians with legal decision-making capacity have the right to refuse medical treatment ... courts in Australia and overseas have long considered artificial feeding - for example by a PEG tube - a medical treatment,'' he said.

just stmbled accross this article about involuntary euthansia in belgium

bump for mathieson

Has anyone faked going to a euthanasia clinic and taken the offer of cash (and tea cake, I presume) from the old pro life nutjobs? It's a scam waiting to happen.