Why do animals get better treatment than humans?

Question

The recent judgement re: Tony Nicklinson right to die makes you sick.

Animals get more respect.

Answer 1

Even murderers don't get the kind of sentence that man has just received. Another twenty or so years of "real"solitary confinement.

Answer 2

To watch Mr Nicklinson break down in tears was heartbreaking. The decision by the High Court was wholly wrong. Lord Justice Toulson has condemned a man to twenty years of sheer hell.



The British Medical Association's response was hypocritical. Dr Tony Calland said "The BMA does not believe that it would be in society's best interests for doctors to be able to legally end a patient's life." Doctors 'play God' every day, deciding who and who doesn't receive the rationed resources of the NHS.

Answer 3

This decision is utterly disgusting! How can a man be forced to live through torture because it doesn't breach his human rights, when illigal immigrants who drive illigally and kill padestrians are not only spared prison but not even deported because they have the human right to a family? No right thinking person could possible oppose an indervidual's right to die, his familly should do the right think and then challenge the law! I am sickened by the legal system in this country.



http://rikstir.blog.co.uk/2011/10/29/life-expectancy-12088191/

Answer 4

I will be quite honest and say that until I saw him break down like that, I thought he was being manipulated by his wife.



From that stand/viewpoint I can quite understand why the judge would have ruled against him being helped to die.



It is a terrible slippery slope and no one wants to be the person who opens Pandora's Box and starts the landslide..



I saw one answerer to another question suggest that it should be someone else with a terminal condition such as cancer who helps him.



This seems ideal to me. Justice is served in every way and this poor man get the release from the prison of his condition that he desires.

Answer 5

I was trying to post a similar question, but it's getting blocked...



I agree, i'm disgusted to hear of Tony Nicklinson's plight.



p.s. it appears lifers was the offending phrase, is Yahoo funded by pro-lifers... grrr..



Y!A filtering in action...

https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20120816103555AAzAWeu





Ah, it was the pro-lifers phrase, not the link... I've lost probably a thousand points this way.

Answer 6

Don't blame the judge, he has to abide by the Law. It's up to Parliament to change the Law.

Answer 7

And it shouldn't be, treating animals better than humans.

Answer 8

I'm in two minds about this issue, I have great sympathy for this man, but you do not have the right to ask anyone to kill you. Doctors have sworn an oath, do no harm. Its not fair to ask this of anyone.

Answer 9

they are less annoying!