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Living with DyingArrow
Age 61-70
Interview 24  

Interview 24

Age at Interview: 61
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 57
Background: Nurse (retired), divorced, 2 children
Brief outline:Diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 1999. Treated with flixotide and serevent inhalers, and on a nebuliser four times a day.


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Discusses the complex issues involved in euthanasia and believes that God can help.

 



We talked about all the discussion that's gone on in the country about euthanasia and assisted suicide?

Yes

Well I wondered what you're views are on that? 

Well as I said in the break I've got very mixed feelings on that subject being a Christian person we are told that life is very special and God gives life and God takes life away, but I also believe that there are times and there are cases where I believe that God would not want that person to continue. 

Do you mean because of the suffering?

With the... I was just going to say, with the suffering and the... what's the word I want... quality of life which they probably wouldn't have any at all. So I don't think that God would frown upon that happening but of course I mean euthanasia goes for all sorts of things and its not just for terminal illness or anything like that and I think that you've got to be very very careful if if this was made law. Legalised. If the quality of life is such that somebody could live it, all be it very frustrating and then I would, don't think I would like to see euthanasia used in that context. If the quality of life is virtually nil and they have got such an illness diagnosis handicap or whatever, reluctantly I think I would say yes.

You see I mean how do you measure it?  What is quality of life for one person is not quality of life for somebody else, and I do wonder sometimes whether you know somebody who does suffer like that perhaps are thinking more about their carers than themselves but they would never let on because they would never want their carer to know. 

It's a big ball game.
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