Wow..what a response!
I wrote the 'spoof' article last night when everyone else were safe and sound asleep in their beds. I think that we have overlooked one serious point and that is that until there is a change in law it is illegal to commit suicide assisted or otherwise.
I was recently quite poorly and in hospital at one stage it looked pretty grim ( one can always tell when you are sailing close to the wind as the family gather round the bed and the priest is annointing you with the last rites
). They couldn't even risk moving me to the critical care unit so they had to come to me. Well needless to say I have recovered enough to enjoy life. In the same ward I witnessed 4 deaths all of whom were given excellent care right up to the end...including the pads and step back routine. If assisted suicides were made legal what would be stopping the hospital in advising the relatives that it was fruitless to continue bearing in mind the cost to the hard strapped hospitals.
I'm with Chris P on this..it's a slippery slope from which there is no return and open to abuse. Dr Shipman was a leading advocate of assisted suicides...and looked what happened to his patients.
Luckiily I have my faith and the law of the country to guide me.