The Official Morality Thread

[Jonah]

Tony Nicholson has passed away. No further details at the minute. I wonder was it natural causes or will there be more to it?

Well may he rest in peace.
And if there does happen to be an afterlife after this world I hope he is free of all the suffering and pain he endured here on earth.

[give her dixie]

I have always been a supporter of assisted suicide. I think when someone has a terminal illness, they should have the right and the option to die with dignity in a manner of their own choosing. I looked after my father for 18 months as he died a horrible death with Motor Neurone Disease. While he never considered assisted suicide I know for sure I would have done everything if he had of had wished to go down that road. I would go to jail if thats what it took. Plus, I would have had no moral issue with it either.

[firestarter]

Couldnt agree more 'give her dixie' and theres clearly few people better qualified to talk on the issue than yourself. I think someone must have intervened in that poor mans case today.

[heganboy]

Couldnt agree more 'give her dixie'

+1

with the caveat of not having the experience of having been through it.

[Puckoon]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/barbara-wise-john-wise-mercy-killing-hospital-shooting_n_1772264.html

A recent case from Ohio along similar lines (similar, not the same). Ohio man shot his wife in the head in her hospital bed after she had suffered a stroke. Media bites are labeling it a mercy killing, and while we will never know what agreement they had between them, well he's being charged with murder all the same.