[Acrylic-bob]

I agree that the right to die at a time of ones own choosing and in a manner of ones own choosing should be as much a part of human rights legislation as the right to life.

I reject utterly that another person should have the legal right decide what is best for me over my own wishes in the matter. I certainly do not agree that such an important decision should be placed solely in the hands of a Doctor.

As far as I am concerned it is my life, my body, and it should be my decision what I choose to do with it.

However, I do recognise that we live in a less than perfect world and any situation is open to abuse by the unscrupulous. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that the old and frail might feel pressurised into taking that final decision by relatives acting from less than perfect motives. But surely some system of living will could be put in place to reduce such unpleasantness to the absolute minimum. After all they seem to be able to manage it in Switzerland and Holland.