Euthanasia-Assisted Suicide.

Life and Death.

January 7, 2010

In the era of what we are told is the revolution in journalism -  blogging – this becomes what we call, “a story“. Nick Robinson 6th January 2009. Nick Robinson’s disparaging gibe at the blogging world yesterday exposed the chasm which lies between ‘us’ and ‘them’. We define a story as something we are passionately [...]

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For Whom the Bell Tolls.

October 12, 2009

Back in Victorian times, death was never far from people’s thoughts thanks to the diseases and poor medicine of those times. You can see evidence of this in old sepia photos of sombre matronly women (including Queen Victoria herself) posing in their widow’s weeds. Back in those days the grim reaper was rushed off his [...]

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Suicide – the uneasy option.

September 4, 2009

In June this year The Sunday Times reported the death of Cari Loder who, rendered housebound by the progression of her Multiple Sclerosis and fearing that she would be sent to a care home, took her own life using a method she had researched via the internet.  She put a hood over her head and inhaled [...]

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The Gold Standard for an Obscene Death.

September 3, 2009

There is a sense in which publication of this letter in the Daily Telegraph was as inevitable as death itself. I have been waiting for it, or something like it,  to appear since last October when the full function of The Mental Capacity Act 2005 came into operation. None of us want to think of [...]

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Parliament and My Little Pussy………

July 9, 2009

Nick Palmer, Labour MP for Broxtowe, and long time supporter of animal rights, yesterday took time out from worrying about the economic chaos facing the UK to fret about my poor little pussy. Being elderly myself, this is an issue that affects me, but I assure you that my pussy is the least of my [...]

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Life or Death?

March 21, 2009

This building may look remarkably like a great cathedral, but there is no God inside, just a High Court Judge. Today, a couple known only as Mr and Mrs T, are planning to spend their final hours enjoying the company of their baby son. Last night they lost a final legal bid to overturn the [...]

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Hatching and Dispatching for the NuLabour stakeholder…….

February 17, 2009

(Una )Musings has an excellent piece on the Contact Point database, Labour’s Orwellian plan to regulate every aspect of the way in which a child  is raised, including chilling statements such as ‘refusal to take appropriate medicine’ – who is to decided what is appropriate, and for what ailment are they being medicated?; surely not [...]

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