“PHONETICALLY SPEAKING” To reflect the fast pace of world news, my blog is probably best served as a stream-of-consciousness text. Fast and unadulterated. With this approach, and on first encounter, text might not seem to scan. This is because I am dyslexic. Instead of keeping the proof-readers busy, I would rather let my blog updates of my visual work stand as a record of my experience of dyslexia, which I am keen that you now get to enjoy too. Unlike some news outlets, I hereby excuse myself the need for a ‘corrections’ section! The excitement of a new language is something I’m quite familiar with, and it is with this ‘joie de vivre’ that I am delighted to guide you through my thought and work processes, more phonetically (than fanatically) speaking.
Assider Sumersiyd
A slippery slope which increasingly gets more difficult to stop, when we have started. Bishop Desmond Tutu and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has decided to champion assisted suicide in the United Kingdom just before the House of Lords debate a new bill.
Desmond Tutu premises the idea of it’s a fundamental right when one leaves Mother Earth letting terminally ill people to choose.
Stephen Hawking has a slightly different take on the subject and probably more interesting political debating point. He would consider assisted suicide if he became a burden to others or if he had nothing more to contribute.
As I understand it now under English law it is Illegal to assist someone to die, as English law is based on common sense and so far, all cases of assisted suicide which has been brought to the courts the assistant of the suicide has never been prosecuted by the court in recent times.
So, in principle if the courts find the assisted suicide, the victim was acting with free will and sane of mind to ask for assistance there would be no prosecution of the assistant party.
History shows when nations legalise assisted suicide, it is not long to the level of assisted suicide is lowered. To include people who it was never originally designed for, and it won’t stop there.
The major flaw with Desmond Tutu’s argument, would be terminally ill is a subjective line. Even though where he would personally put the line may be a moral and just position for a society to allow people to decide to die. Is a subjective line good enough to open that Pandora’s box?
Then we have Stephen Hawking thoughts on the matter, this is more problematic. Who would come under this bracket of people in the country according to the House of Lords? The A burden to others or if they had nothing more to contribute.
Life is such a fleeting human experience and for a state to regulate a positive action of a death of a human being is dangerous and irresponsible of society.
However, I do think the current setup we have in the United Kingdom is the best compromise morally we can have with our knowledge of death and pain.
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