I’m not sure if I should roll up to an electorate meeting
on the End of Life Choice Bill tonight — it’s not my electorate and I am
already a bit cross that anti-Bill protestors attend meetings all over the
place and distort the vote that is usually taken at these events.
But if I go—and can pluck up the courage!—I’d like to ask a
couple of questions of each candidate:—
(I am 84, have advanced metastatic spinal
compression prostate cancer. I have no other life-threatening issues but I do have a history of undiagnosed and untreated tetany spasms after one surgery. If this cancer is
allowed to take its course I can expect significant paralysis, double incontinence
and a prolonged, undignified, painful death, possibly without adequate relief
of suffering. I don’t actually want that, so—)
1. Are you
personally satisfied with the present law that says it is not a crime if I decide to take my own life rather than let my
disease take its course? Yes or No.
2. Are you then personally
comfortable with my reality that if this Bill is not put into law quite soon I
may plan to end my life now while I can still manage to drive my car into a
bridge abutment or can shut myself up in our garage with the engine running
(oh, damn, that won’t work—our car is all-electric!) or get to town to buy a
party kit and figure out how to make that do what it was never designed for?
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