His and Her matching suicides

[Fez4PrezN2008]

Story Here - Linky (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/world/europe/15britain.html)

The short version for those of you who don't like to read - Limey conductor, not sick himself, offs himself with wife at same time in Swiss concentration camp.

Would you want to go out at the same time your spouse does?

I say F that. What do you think?

[jauble]

Unless he is going to be inspired to write a symphony she'll never hear who cares. Its pretty romantic.

[Furtherman]

offs himself with wife at same time in Swiss concentration camp.

That's an incorrect description of the clinic. She was terminally ill, and he wasn't in perfect health either - he was almost blind and deaf.

“After 54 happy years together, they decided to end their own lives rather than continue to struggle with serious health problems,” the Downes children said in their statement.


I see nothing wrong with this, especially at an older age when all you have to look forward to is health problems.

[Marc with a c]

i'd have told her i was going to do it and faked it. that way she goes still loving me and i can go nap or something.

[boosterp]

This ass just set the assisted suicide movement a step back since he was not terminally ill.

[meanmrbill]

This ass just set the assisted suicide movement a step back since he was not terminally ill.

I doubt that his primary concern was with the assisted suicide movement. He loved his wife and determined that he would rather be dead than live without her. To call him an ass because you think he set a "movement" backward is a discredit to this couple and their decision which, I'm sure, wasn't made on a whim.

[boosterp]

I doubt that his primary concern was with the assisted suicide movement. He loved his wife and determined that he would rather be dead than live without her. To call him an ass because you think he set a "movement" backward is a discredit to this couple and their decision which, I'm sure, wasn't made on a whim.

The clinic was in the wrong too because they allowed him to take the cocktail and he was not terminal.

[Radioguy]

Meh, I have no issue with this as long as the kids didn't push him to it, which I suppose would warrant some investigation to rule that out.

[topless_mike]

no harm, no foul.
i'm cool with it.

[sailor]

The clinic was in the wrong too because they allowed him to take the cocktail and he was not terminal.

i don't think you should go about judging them by our laws (if that's even what you're doing).

[boosterp]

i don't think you should go about judging them by our laws (if that's even what you're doing).

If you look up the clinic and the laws that govern them you would see that they are only supposed to help the terminally ill.

It is real easy to find the information on Google.

[Dougie Brootal]

The clinic was in the wrong too because they allowed him to take the cocktail and he was not terminal.

he was deaf and blind. and 95. id rather be dead too.

[sailor]

If you look up the clinic and the laws that govern them you would see that they are only supposed to help the terminally ill.

It is real easy to find the information on Google.

or, you could have just said you weren't, as i already said you might not have. thanks for doing my research for me. it was even easier.

[boosterp]

he was deaf and blind. and 95. id rather be dead too.

But he was not terminal by the medical definition.

I do not disagree with the dude offing himself with his wife, I find it rather romantic.

[boosterp]

or, you could have just said you weren't, as i already said you might not have. thanks for doing my research for me. it was even easier.

Sorry, I am in a "mood" today and was a bone head. Please forgive me.

[sailor]

Sorry, I am in a "mood" today and was a bone head. Please forgive me.

sorry i'm always a dick.

[biggirl]

I don't believe in suicide, not matter the case, no matter the law. If I were to die with my husband, say in a plane crash, sure I would be glad I was with him.

If our children were under the age of 18, I'd rather it just be one of us. I don't trust any of my friends or family with my kids.

[boosterp]

I don't believe in suicide, not matter the case, no matter the law. If I were to die with my husband, say in a plane crash, sure I would be glad I was with him.

If our children were under the age of 18, I'd rather it just be one of us. I don't trust any of my friends or family with my kids.

I know that y'all are Christians and I respect your choice of religion and how it plays a part in your opinion on suicide.

Having been suicidal, I am glad I never had the balls to carry it out myself but I wanted to die by someone else's hand. I am all for assisted suicide when there is terminal illness, etc. But I am against it outside of having a doctor help one die, there should be a medical professional there to help. I also want it to be legal here.

[Fez4PrezN2008]

I see Ronny B has been reading my threads :smoke:
Pretty classy how he didn't make a big deal about who started the thread at rf.net and such.

[SatCam]

he was deaf and blind. and 95. id rather be dead too.

at 95 being deaf and blind is probably the best thing that could happen to you