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This is a normal post What were your thoughts on that severely disabled guy who took his fight for the right to die to the high courts...
He lost and ended up starving himself to death a few months later :(
 (I helped save b3ta! Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 11:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hang on -
I'm writing something on the Belgian case for the Oxford Practical Ethics blog - I need to be quick before some other bugger publishes something - but on that case, go to blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/ and search for "Nicklinson". In short, I think he had a reasonable moral case, but his legal case was hopeless.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 11:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post Poor bugger :(

(I helped save b3ta! Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 12:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post Actually, I thought I'd done more on that case.

(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 12:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post Why not have an IV line put in, then a simple button press to administer the dose
The person who wants to die connects the IV to the feeder, presses a button, and the anaesthetic dose is administered, followed by the lethal dose a few minutes after. The doctor wouldn't have to be in the room.
 (Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 12:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post That'd still fall foul of the intention claim -
setting up the machine'd count as assisting suicide, which is illegal in England and Wales under the Suicide Act. (Not sure about Scotland and whether the Act applies there as well.)
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 13:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post but shirley
there would have to be a certain point in the set up of the machine. if it was a modular device, say 5 components, left in parts in the room...
This is where it gets silly, if someone tops themselves in my bathroom with a hot bath and some razor blades whats the difference?
 (Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 13:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well, as long as you hadn't provided the blades in order for them to off themselves, you'd be OK.
Like I said, it's all about intention. (If you know someone is suicidal and foresaw the attempt, but did nothing to prevent it, you might fall foul of negligence laws - but I'm not sure of that. I don't really know anything about negligence.)
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 16 Sep 2014, 13:35, , Reply)