On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:51:31 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 20/01/2014 4:21 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> If you see someone going to make suicide, you generally try to talk
>>> them
>>> >out of it, to help them. You don't just watch by without doing
>>> >nothing and thinking "well, it's their personal choice".
>> That's a fair point.
> 
> It is but balance that with the aims of Dignitas.

Yes.

> I don't want someone telling me, if I am in great pain at the end of my
> life. That I have got to suffer because the priests of the big man in
> the toga, says it is wrong.
> Similarly I think Jehovah's Witnesses should be allowed to take their
> chances. But not their children or dependants.

It also is a balance with the individual being of sound mind and acting 
with full awareness.  Where religious beliefs are concerned, though, that 
gets into more challenging territory, and is a bit muddier.

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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