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:facepalm: Pass out and not wake up.

Yes, it certainly appears that he wants to carry on living - and he seems to be doing a damn good job of it, and good luck to him! Why do the people opposed to changing the law seem to so easily forget the significance of the word VOLUNTARY?

With his level of physical disability, that might not be easy. Anyway, doing it himself would be suicide, not euthanasia.

Not suicide; voluntary euthanasia. In that situation I'm dying anyway, and soon, and painfully - in those circumstances I'd like to go at a time of my own choosing, with the knowledge of my family. Interesting that it's starting to happen by the back door, so to speak. Better to formally set...

Why? It's not you that I'm asking to take them!

At the moment, he doesn't have the choice, that's the problem. If he doesn't want it,fine - it s voluntary euthanasia we're discussing, after all.

I'd still prefer a massive overdose of painkillers - maybe with a nice whisky! - to the pneumonia.

That doesn't make an argument against abortion per se though, it's only an argument against relaxing the laws. The safeguards are still adhered to, but our lawmakers relaxed them - wrongly in my opinion, but that's neither here nor there. Voluntary euthanasia, with safeguards, yes - but if...

Perhaps someone could set up a poll on this? Anyway, it's a yes from me. It would need to have a lot of safeguards built in, but yes, it should be allowed.