regmcfly wrote:

Oh I see. TOMC DID IT IS THAT THE JOKE

Tony certainly isn’t a human rights hero or a positive role model for the severely disabled either. Tony is selfish: he is concerned for no one other than himself. Tony is cowardly: he lacks the courage to live with dignity. Tony is dishonourable: he seeks murder and despises his own life. Make no mistake: however much Tony is being manipulated by the media, the pro-euthanasia lobby and even his own family, Tony is guilty of pursuing the legalisation of murder, which, if he ever achieves his aim, would inevitably lead to the murder by doctors of hundreds of vulnerable disabled, incapacitated or elderly patients in an NHS holocaust of involuntary euthanasia.

Eric M wrote:

corvath wrote:

I love Tony Nicklinson and I recognise just how precious his life is, whereas my opponents have nothing but contempt for his life. I must disagree with those who say, “Tony Nicklinson’s life isn’t worth living… put him down like a dog.” To feel sorry for Tony is normal and understandable, but to want to kill him is inexcusable. To want to end this disabled man’s life rather than care for him is to hold his life in utter contempt.

As usual, Carvath, like all those who so self-righteously speak about the value of the lives of those who want to bring their suffering to an end, expresses things to suit himself, and not to reflect what such people are really saying. No one was saying that Tony Nicklinson’s life was not worth living. Tony was saying that. And he wasn’t whining and whingeing about it either. He was willing to stand up for his right to say it. Nor was he asking to be put down like a dog. He was asking for help to die like a human being, at his choice, and at a time of his choosing. Instead of valuing Tony’s life, which included the person that Tony was, with his values, hopes, fears, plans and purposes, Carvath thinks that valuing just the living body is sufficient. That’s all he has to value in order to value Tony’s life. But Tony was a person, not just a body, and if you will not value Tony’s values, for Tony, not for anyone else; if you won’t value his decisions, arrived at after careful and serious thought; if you will not accept that, for Tony, not for anyone else, his life had reached the point where he no longer felt that living a life locked into his body was consistent with what he thought of as a worthwhile life; then you have neither loved nor valued him at all.