Euthanasia ad goes to air this weekend
A pro euthanasia ad commissioned by Exit International will go to air in Brisbane during Seven’s Bones on Sunday night.
The commercial has been created by Sydney agency The Works after it was invited to create an ad on the topic for The Gruen Transfer.
The Exit Inernational ad will then air in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth on Wednesday night during The Suspects, also on Seven.
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I wish the government would stop procrastinating on this issue. Those who want to skip an ending that involves pain, misery, stuck in some old people’s home, poorly attended, especially if they have no family to ensure that they’re well cared for, should have the option of leaving peacefully and with dignity.
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HERE HERE!!!!!
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We afford the right to a peaceful, painless death to animals but not to humans. It makes no sense whatsoever.
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Zanne’s comment would have made a better ad.
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Would you send a man that coherent to the dirt?
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This is one of the most horrible things that any person can endure. I am currently watching my father go through this and the stress to my mother and family that this brings is horrible. However watching my father slowly slip away to a shadow of his former self and have him deal with it every day is the most heart wrenching. Watching someone who has always been a strong independent person get to a point where they cannot even clean or feed themselves is humiliating for them and devastating for those closest to watch.
Having to say goodbye to my father will be hard enough but having the lasting memory of their last months on this earth full of pain and suffering.. Incomprehensible…
Something needs to give…
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It’s not as simple a question as it might seem.
If you read some of the stories on http://www.euthanasia.com you’ll start to get a feel for the complexities of the issue.
Eg. Consider this story by a disabled man on the dangers of physician-assisted suicide becoming legalized: http://www.euthanasia.com/disabledman.html
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no, it is a simple question.
It’s about choice, as the disabled man himself concluded:
“add in legalized PAS and the possibility of being offered a cheap end to your life as opposed to an astronomically expensive long term plan of treatment is all to real”.
for every such hristian who is glad they were saved from themselves in their darkest hours, there must be countless others who suffered in pain and indignity because they had no choice
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Come on Sam C. You have referred to an extremist pro-life website full of lies and innuendo. Pls have some integrity. There is no slippery slope. It’s a myth. You really shouldn’t let your religious opinions influence good discussion about this most basic of human rights. Balance your argument with Philip Nitschke’s website http://www.exitinternational.net
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sadly the ad has now been banned
http://bit.ly/90QrfV
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Laws do not protect us from mainstream behaviour, but from extreme behaviour. They do not protect us from 95% of the population, but we need them for the other 5%. They do not protect us from clear cut and simple situations, but complicated and ambiguous ones. This ad tries to make the story extremely simple (as ads always do); but real life is often not this simple. This is not to say that changes in the laws should not be discussed. But I believe that any change at all to the laws that forbid a person (a doctor or otherwise) intentionally taking action to end the life of another should be made with extreme caution, if at all.
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Why does the government so vehemently oppose it? Here here to Zanne’s comment. It’s totally insane that we allow animals to experience a gracious death if in severe pain and suffering, but not our family. Madness.
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They clear it, then ban it after it’s made?
What kind of BS is that?
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Good on The Works for giving it a red hot go… at least we know what the Gruen Transfer will feature this week
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At the risk of shifting this debate elsewhere, does it being banned by CAD mean all of this would be “filtered” under the new Interweb “filter”
Herein lies the rub of discussing any decriminalisation, especially against religious doctrine.
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It’s the sort of issue that needs a national referendum as opposed to being just passed through parliament.
I’m interested to know where that statistic came from. I’m not saying it’s not true, just wondering.
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A quick google would get you this link:
http://www.news.com.au/breakin.....5791455181
But then the NT News had the same figure as front page news on Monday this week with a different poll, so take your pick…
The figure of 70% has been around and steady since the 1970s!
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Bah, clearly I’m lazy.
Though 1201 adults doesn’t constitute a large enough number of people to make their research statistically valid. Research like this is generally flawed as it’s hard to get enough people, but yeah rule of thumb is normally at least 2000 people. I know it sounds arbitrary but hey, research generally is.
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