Must have been so awful for him to have to live like that and just as awful for his family to see him like that but he's finally at peace! Just hope the family don't get accused of foul play.

 

RIP

^^^^Seconded^^^^ RIP

Poor guy probably died of a broken heart from the ordeal, at least now he is at peace and his family can be at rest in the knowledge he is no longer in pain.

 

Without a doubt there will be a post mortem. RIP Tony

Rip tony, must of been so hard for him and his family,

 

At least Wiltshire police said they will not be investigating his death,

 

May he rest in peace

Tragic story and my heart goes out to him and his family. RIP

Very dignified bloke. RIP

RIP...Peace at last.

I've been following this story very closely due to my family being in a similar situation.

 

In 2008 my 49 year old father had a bleed on the brain which put him in a coma and then three days later had a masisve stroke leaving him 80% brain dead. Its technically known as permanant vegatative state. He was deaf, blind, paralysed, and had no thought process and means to communication. As one doctor described it he was "nothing more than a breathing corpse."

 

He lived like this for another two and a half years and after six months in hospital was cared for by my mother and me and my three brothers and one sister. We didn't mind obviously but it was heartbreaking knoing how much he would have hated it. In a house he built with his own hands he was now bed bound with his wife having to give him medication every four hours every day, being bed bathed by his family morning and night, being fed by a tube directly into his stomach, wearing an adult nappy and havign to be cleaned by your wife, wearign a bib to aid the dribbling etc.

 

This is something these pro life campaigners fail to realise. Whilst everyone has a right to life they also have a right to quality of life. People need to know there is a fate worse than death. Imagine your child pulling your body onto its side whilst your wife wipes your backside and they then put a new nappy on you, is that better than death?

 

If I could relive that time again I'd inject my dad with enough morphine to kill him and I'd take the prison sentence standing on my head without an ounce of guilt.

 

If i ever get diagnosed with anything that will end with me being incapble to care for myself or communicate I shall be killing myself striaght away. My dad never had the choice, a normal man watching match of the day, stands to go to the toilet and just collapsed.

 

Any pro life campaigner who would like to talk face to face with me and/or my family let me know and I can show you heartbreak that will change your stance.

Edited August 22, 201213 yr by dt_300zx
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That's an incredible story dt, got me all choked up, I also think people should have the choice in these kind of cases to beable to end there lives, these people who make these laws ect don't know what it's like having a loved one in a situation like these, they don't listen to the cases it's a no really even before they've considered anything,

 

We need someone in parliament with some balls that's gonna actually put there neck on the line and change the laws, but until that day comes so many more families will have to suffer

That's an incredible story dt, got me all choked up, I also think people should have the choice in these kind of cases to beable to end there lives, these people who make these laws ect don't know what it's like having a loved one in a situation like these, they don't listen to the cases it's a no really even before they've considered anything,

 

We need someone in parliament with some balls that's gonna actually put there neck on the line and change the laws, but until that day comes so many more families will have to suffer

 

Couldn't agree more, maybe if you had something in your will or your loved ones could make a decision if there was no quality of life and no chance of it improving. Something needs doing, if it happned to a dog it would be put down as it would be unfair to live that way so why is it ok for humans?