From: Your Choice In Dying [mailto:choice@yourchoiceindying.com]
Sent: Friday, 27 November 2009 11:07 AM
To: letters@theage.com.au
Subject: “Caring” can mean ‘allowing death to occur”
The ultimate respect Governments can give their Seniors is to enable them to participate in the decision making process dealing with their own end of life.   All the sweet talk about their decades of contribution to society, while fit and healthy, is meaningless unless it is followed by common sense, once aged.   Dying is a natural result of living but it needs to be managed in the most humane way possible in these days death preventing technology.  Those who wish for a hastened death suffering from age related illnesses should be allowed the right to voluntary euthanasia.  I hope all politicians will listen to the 85% of Victorians who have indicated they agree with intervention by Physician Assisted Dying or alternatively providing the right to terminally self medicate.

Mary Walsh

Postscript:  Gawd what a debacle is being played out in Federal Politics this week.  Can the ‘right to die’ lobby have a full comprehension of how far back our cause will be dragged should the man whose mother predicted when he was still a child, he’d either be the Pope or Prime Minister!   Tony Abbott!!  He’ll never be the Pope!  I’d rather that then he would be out of Australia’s hair living in Catholic splendor in Rome… What a weasel of a man, without genuine loyalty or commitment to a cause!   A man who uses the moment to seize the initiative for his own purpose rather than for the common good of Australians.    Bah!!

Of the three contenders today for the Opposition Leader role, the current leader, Malcolm Turnbull is the most honorable and isn’t that the most worthwhile virtue needed in a potential prime minister?    In correspondence, he’s danced around the idea of choice and dignity in dying, so he’s made no problems he hasn’t kept…..