Administering a fatal dose of morphine is something doctors already do on a regular basis with terminal cases when the dying individual is nearing the end. She shouldn’t have had to carry the burden of this secret for so many years.
Thankfully our PM, while DPP, basically made it off limits to go after people in such cases.
I’m so hopeful that he can get assisted dying over the line in the Parliament
I’m a GP. I’m sure this is something that goes on but it is not acknowledged. Generally, we give higher doses of pain relief explicitly for pain and agitation, not to kill someone – that would be murder. I have been asked before by patients if I could give them something to help them go easily but the law is very clear here – all I can do is make sure there is enough medication available to deal with pain. I’d love the law to be reformed here.
Voluntary assisted dying is a human right. It needs to be legalised asap.
It sounds like she might have ended her own life?
I can only hope she wasn’t burdened by the difficult decision she had to make for her son, and if she did, then announcing it recently gave her the peace she needed to go comfortably.
I hope she had peace at the end. I hope she knew how many of us read her story and silently thanked her for doing what she could to ease her boy’s passing.
So sad that she had to carry that secret for most of her life, with no support. She shouldn’t need to do that. I hope she is at peace. I wonder if her unburdening her secret meant she passed away more quickly since she may be more at peace.
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Administering a fatal dose of morphine is something doctors already do on a regular basis with terminal cases when the dying individual is nearing the end. She shouldn’t have had to carry the burden of this secret for so many years.
Thankfully our PM, while DPP, basically made it off limits to go after people in such cases.
I’m so hopeful that he can get assisted dying over the line in the Parliament
I’m a GP. I’m sure this is something that goes on but it is not acknowledged. Generally, we give higher doses of pain relief explicitly for pain and agitation, not to kill someone – that would be murder. I have been asked before by patients if I could give them something to help them go easily but the law is very clear here – all I can do is make sure there is enough medication available to deal with pain. I’d love the law to be reformed here.
Voluntary assisted dying is a human right. It needs to be legalised asap.
It sounds like she might have ended her own life?
I can only hope she wasn’t burdened by the difficult decision she had to make for her son, and if she did, then announcing it recently gave her the peace she needed to go comfortably.
I hope she had peace at the end. I hope she knew how many of us read her story and silently thanked her for doing what she could to ease her boy’s passing.
So sad that she had to carry that secret for most of her life, with no support. She shouldn’t need to do that. I hope she is at peace. I wonder if her unburdening her secret meant she passed away more quickly since she may be more at peace.