A view I personally share…although with the behaviour of the Powers today I understand the Fear this generates also.
Excellent post Juli; Thanks lovely for speaking so eloquently for me (again) xxx
A plea; a call to heed a wish
when needed
an assisted death
to ease; to hasten in
the last breath out
the fear and doubt
hysteria and moral shouts
to pit strong will against Free Will
as though the Law itself
bequeathed a killing field
of State or Person
rather than the conscious act
of mocking and abusing it
before or after the fact.
jaynelinney 
Thank you, Jayne. Yes, I, too, understand the fear that this regime is generating but, like you, my wish for a good, sound law to enable assisted dying, looks beyond this administration and is based solely on the principle of Free Will. It most certainly is not because I am not afraid of this particular government! I am. To the extent that I’m anxious about every policy and law they put their grubby hands on. If I didn’t have hope for their demise next year, perhaps I might have written differently – or even, not at all! Or perhaps I’d even want the earliest assisted death possible, if I thought we were stuck with these bastards for the foreseeable! Albeit that’s tongue in cheek hyperbole but it is also a measure of how much this lot really frightens me.. However, my fear does not diminish my wish for the right to ask for assistance to die, should I ever be unfortunate enough to need it. xXx
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Just to add – it is important to remember that this is not a law of compulsion and an individual would have to be able to make the request him/herself and prove they are capable of understanding the request they have made.
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