Valerie chose to kill herself before the disease robbed her of all dignity. She wanted to take an overdose and die in her husband's arms.
But they discovered that the law forbade this. If he held his wife of 48 years while she lay dying he could go to prison for assisting suicide. So Valerie insisted that he let her do it alone. When he agreed, she said she'd do it the next day.
Joe Bennett, Press (29/1/14).
A friend died 3
weeks ago, cancer, not nice circumstances, & no, there is not perfect
pain relief with morphine, far from it. Another 1/2
— Mark
Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) January
29, 2014
@MarkHubbard33
... friend currently dying, refusing treatment 4 her cancer. Imagine if an
election was fought on important issues like (2/3)
— Mark
Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) January
29, 2014
@MarkHubbard33
... #euthanasia
& medicinal #cannabis,
rather than banning FaceBook for not paying enough tax @MaryanStreetMP
@DavidClarkNZ
—
Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) January
29, 2014
Forget the flags. If
you’ve got a bit of time for the important matters of living, dying and basic
freedoms we are denied by immoral busy-body monsters and cruel Christ fantasist
mystics and their pathological cult of suffer little children, you won’t regret
reading Joe Bennett’s wonderful, infuriating ‘my dear friend’s lonely death.’
Though
if you want to know my contribution to the great flag debate:
A black flag
with tax auditor & fascist salute would be apt as symbol of death of
classical liberalism and the free society in New Zealand.
—
Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) January
29, 2014
Oh,
and as bad as is New Zealand MP David Clark's threat to ban FaceBook for not paying enough tax, they legislated a gagging law in England this week: it’s called a lobbying
law, but Brits already know it was a gagging law as its first victims have
been political parody accounts on Twitter.
Yesterday the government’s gagging law was passed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats – marking yet another nail in the coffin for freedom of speech in Britain.
And as if to celebrate the occasion, three parody accounts that were critical of coalition policies closed down on Twitter – at least one after complaints were made from government officials.
In
this year’s election in New Zealand with the Libertarianz Party having
deregistered, there is only the choice of Big Nanny State Leftists who support
the tax surveillance state, or Big Nanny State Right wing conservatives who
support the tax surveillance state. There is no choice between parties when all parties demand an individual is
sacrificed to society, none that understand society only exists for
individuals. With no choice to vote for a free, classical liberal,
voluntary society, I will almost certainly not be voting in 2014.