Posts by Hilary Stace
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to Sacha,
Thanks for that Sacha. Like Rosemary's earlier post it is informed by personal experience about how power and systems work in the real world.
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And why is it different from euthanasia for baby girls (in certain cultures) because baby girls are of less value that boy babies?
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I suppose I'm just uneasy about a medical procedure for which death is the intended outcome. I'm much happier about interventions such as drugs and medical care, which ease a natural dying process. And I worry about who is making the decisions about hastening another person's death and why, and where the power lies.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to ,
Except that midwife assisted birth, that ends in death, tends to be referred to the coroner or some other official for investigation.
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Hard News: Friday Music: It's good to…, in reply to Sacha,
The Johnny Cash biography I read recently describes the recording of that clip. Quite moving and something very redemptive about it - two old mates (note Rosanne comes in at one point) at the end of eventful lives. I'm a great fan of Johnny Cash (even though he wasn't very good to the women in his life) because there is something about a flawed person trying to do good in his music that is quite appealing. And he had charisma!
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Suffer, burden, pain, problem, dependent, consent, capacity, fear, death.
All powerful words with very personal meanings.
An underlying issue in the euthanasia debate is that some people want to impose their understanding of the meanings of these words - such as suffering - on others who might not see their situation as suffering.
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It is sometimes really hard for family members and friends to observe the progress of terminal illness in another person, especially when it is slow (such as with MND) or when palliative care is not optimal. I think a lot of euthanasia advocates have had this experience.
But that is about their own grief, or their own reaction to lack of control of a situation, or loss of their personal power in an unfamiliar system, rather than what might be the best thing for the dying person. If terminal illness and the process of dying is so terrible there would be more advocacy for euthanasia from palliative care clinicians - yet they are some of the staunchest opponents of it.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to Joe Wylie,
The post was a personal response by a long-time disability activist to what he saw as an attack on the right of disabled people to speak for themselves, and he was reacting against others negatively labelling and dehumanising them and their lives.
I assumed that being constructive with the opponents of that view was not his aim.
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I wonder if there are gender differences? When the Welsh miners' women sing the feminist anthem Bread and Roses in the movie Pride it's a bit teary
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Joe I'm not sure what you and I are arguing about. I'm just defending Martin as a first time poster on a topic that is close to many people and not easy for most.