Meurent Plus Vite, Putain!

Which is French (I hope) for Die Faster, Whore!

France should allow doctors to “accelerate the coming of death” for terminally ill patients, a report to President Francois Hollande recommended Tuesday.

Hollande referred the report to a national council on medical ethics which will examine the precise circumstances under which such steps could be authorised with a view to producing draft legislation by June 2013.

If the legislation is in accord with an individual's expressed desire to end his/her pain and suffering, I'm cautiously supportive; if, however, it is done to anyone who hasn't explicitly expressed such a desire, then I do not support it.

The Most Fundamental Human Right of All?

The right to decide for yourself the term of your life, and to have the means legally to facilitate the ending of it with dignity, with minimal interference from the State.

Quote of the Day

"Having children performing somersaults of joy on their hospital beds when the NHS uses dehydration as a form of euthanasia is a fucking repellent thing for a supposedly civilized people." - - Velociman.

One Of Those Terrible Dilemmas

88-year-old Roy Charles Laird entered the nursing home where his wife, 86-year-old Clara Laird, was being cared for as a result of dementia and decline in which she was unable to care for herself or recognize anyone around her, shot her with a revolver, and sat down beside her to wait for police to arrest him.

His daughter described the killing as a "mercy killing."

Obviously there's no provision for physician-assisted euthanasia in most of the US, so Laird apparently did what he thought was right; my question is, why did he not then turn the gun on himself so as to spare the state of California the necessity of trying him as a murderer? Was he not prepared to join his wife in death? Did he have business left undone? Did he intend to do so, but lost his nerve at the moment of truth?

What a terrible dilemma for Laird and for the state of California. What a terrible tragedy.

Meanwhile, In Belgium...

...nurses responsible for carrying out euthanasia are getting a bit too enthusiastic about their work.

You weren't quite ready to go yet? Too effing bad.