Recently a soap has brought forward an issue faced by many people world over. It managed to show both side's of how people feel about this issue and of course, brought the story into the news with some often very heated points of view. I reffer of course to corronation street and Hayley Cropper's fight against a terminal cancer, which sadly ended her life on monday 20/01/2014.
First of all, i must congradulate the team of people at the soap who have managed to carry the story, right from the scene's you saw above, through to hayley's departure which happend only the other day. The scene's we're perfectly written, showing the viewers both sides of the story, and of course acted to perfection too.
Currently in the UK the law states that taking your own life or assisting in taking somebody elses is illegal and should be punished accordingly. Now, i do also have to point out here that IF you are found by or reported to the police for trying to take your own life, VERY rarely are you sent to prison. The police if anything will send you to a therapy of some sort which should help you work through the issues and lead you to a better life.... but Hayley couldn't have done such a thing.
Hayley's life of course was only going to be filled with more pain and a loss of personality as the medication took a hold in order to try and ensure a pain free passing. An overdose of this medication is what we believe to have been used when Hayley decided that this was her time to go. But, where do you stand on this debate? Was she right to do so?
Personally, i believe that people should be legally able to take their own lives or, in the right circumstances, assist others in the taking of their own. Each case should be looked at for what it is and a decision as to legal or morally wrong should be decided upon the details.
If you're for assisted death or the taking of one's own life, then i presume you are not going to be going out and in any way, try to encourage other's to take their own lives, but would merely question why the law has to be involved on such an issue.... or is that just me? When a person is faced with a future that's going to hold no hope and no good quality of life, if they chose to take their own life, should we not look at the circumstances and make our choices off that?
Some people are still set against it. We should die of either accidental death or of natural causes. I presume these people who think this, care little about the quality of someone's life and their ability to do thing's that we all take for granted.
Not that this issue will ever come to a public vote here in the UK, i mean, we all have an opinion, but rarely do we get to vote on issues like this, it's all decided for us in parliament and we just have to deal with their decision.
Whatever side of this you are on, try to see thing's from the other side... you may just get a little shock.
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