A good or bad thing to do?

[peteyt]

maybe if she'd done a lovely goodbye recording of herself saying that she is happily letting her husband suffocate her

Gotta agree with Stephen ;P
There's no real way in knowing if she let him do it or not.

I mean, if there was a way to find out if she let him, I don't think he should be charged. But knowing our legal system, he will be.

I know this is an old post but both you two have basically shown why euthanasia should be legal.

At the moment people who want to kill themselves legally have to travel abroad. I think a lot of UK people go to Switzerland if I remember correctly. This is better than nothing but some people might be to ill to actually travel.

I know assisted suicide has been brought forward in the UK before a few times but failed to get enough support. I wonder with the more support for gay marriage would this be something people would be open more to seeing now compared to in the past or is it something too bad in most people's eyes to allow?

I hope someday it does become legal. I had a great gran who spent years stuck in a chair needing helping going anywhere. Obviously she wasn't in a serious condition, but that was bad enough. To think it would be illegal to have someone take their own life if they where in massive pain saddens me deeply.

[Teabags]

doesn't really matter if it's ethically sound.
in the eyes of the law, he's going to prison - despite having many mitigating factors, he may get a lenient sentence.

[GommeInc]

doesn't really matter if it's ethically sound.
in the eyes of the law, he's going to prison - despite having many mitigating factors, he may get a lenient sentence.

Not necessarily. The Courts are recently changing their verdicts when it comes to these sorts of cases. With euthanasia debates causing uproar in society quite a few cases result in suspended sentences (when brought before the High Court). Although many defendants are found guilty in lower courts, the cases tend to go before the High Court and the High Court is suspending sentences for elderly defendants on the grounds of compassion. They need not necessarily be a problem on society if their records are clean and there is strong evidence the victim of the crime was of ill health.

[bondyboy99]

It was a sad thing that the old man done but he was caring for his wife which was in pain, so i think the man did right putting his wife out of the pain.