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Post by goodhelenstar on Feb 12, 2023 19:18:35 GMT
Despite its grim and rather sensational title, this looks like being a serious contribution to the debate around assisted dying. MP Danny Kruger is Prue's son and they are on opposite sides of the debate. The trip of the title is a tour round cities in Canada and the US where it is legal, but not, interestingly, in Switzerland. It's unusual in having two members of the same family, and therefore at least some shared life experiences, holding the debate.
I imagine most people who watch it will approach it from one or other side, but I'm interested to know if they have anything new to contribute and the more airing the subject can have on mainstream media, the better.
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Post by vicky on Feb 23, 2023 18:40:58 GMT
I watched it hoping it might help me make up my mind but it didn't. I have always argued against assisted dying on the grounds that it could be abused. This feeling was strengthened some years ago when visiting someone in hospital. There was a man in a side ward. Suddenly a group of three or four very rowdy teenage girls came down the ward, into the side ward and shut the door. They began shouting why don't you f...ing die, you f...ing old nuisance and the poor man could be heard crying. All the men on the main ward began shouting for the staff who came and threw the girls out. It brought home to me how not everyone is kind to the old,the sick and the dying. On the other hand, the closer I get by virtue of age to the end of my own life with the various ailments that come with it I do begin to wonder whether I might welcome the opportunity to go at a time of my own choosing.
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