Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie

I watched a documentary where Terry Pratchett (the author of the popular Discworld novels) tagged along with a couple - one of whom was dying, to Switzerland to make use of a euthanasia clinic, and it certainly seemed a more gracious way of exiting life than unnecessarily suffering to the very end and upsetting your loved ones in the process.

As you say, euthanasia should be available to everyone. If someone wants to end their own life, they should be free to do so. That it's illegal is mental. Anyone would think our lives are not our own but property of the state.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.