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shillelagh · 08-10-2005, 21:49

After watching my dad die from cancer when I was 18 i totally agreed with euthanasia and wanted something in law that if it happened to me then i had the choice to get someone to help me die.

But something changed my mind.

My mum was ill a few years ago and was took to burnley general and she was really ill. We got a phone call for us all to go over and they said that she was dying and they didnt expect her to last the night. They told us that she had asked not to be resucitated etc it was on her notes we didnt know anything about it she'd never said anything to us about it and it was totally unexpected. That weekend we lived in the hospital (it was the year of the burnley riots) taking it in shifts between us and by sunday she pulled through and she was got better. It happened again last christmas I was told xmas eve that she was dying and the doc said that she werent expecting her to be alive to see new year in. Christmas morning she got up at 8am and was expecting me downstairs to open my xmas pressies.

If euthanasia laws had been in, after seeing my dad die like what he did, i wouldnt have gone through that again and i very much doubt my mum would still be alive now. I probably would have used them.

That is why I changed my mind - twice my mum has got better from being at deaths door and why i think now that its better to leave well alone.

08-10-2005, 21:49	#72
shillelagh God Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: at the border .. Posts: 8,194 Blog Entries: 252 Liked: 1627 times Rep Power: 489677	Re: Euthanasia. After watching my dad die from cancer when I was 18 i totally agreed with euthanasia and wanted something in law that if it happened to me then i had the choice to get someone to help me die. But something changed my mind. My mum was ill a few years ago and was took to burnley general and she was really ill. We got a phone call for us all to go over and they said that she was dying and they didnt expect her to last the night. They told us that she had asked not to be resucitated etc it was on her notes we didnt know anything about it she'd never said anything to us about it and it was totally unexpected. That weekend we lived in the hospital (it was the year of the burnley riots) taking it in shifts between us and by sunday she pulled through and she was got better. It happened again last christmas I was told xmas eve that she was dying and the doc said that she werent expecting her to be alive to see new year in. Christmas morning she got up at 8am and was expecting me downstairs to open my xmas pressies. If euthanasia laws had been in, after seeing my dad die like what he did, i wouldnt have gone through that again and i very much doubt my mum would still be alive now. I probably would have used them. That is why I changed my mind - twice my mum has got better from being at deaths door and why i think now that its better to leave well alone.