joshglennYou're right. We should pay attention regarding death, and really think about it and how we're using our lives. But don't take my word for it. --- (Ecclesiastes 7:1-2) . . ."A name is better than good oil, and the day of death than the day of one’s being born. Better is it to go to the house of mourning than to go to the banquet house, because that is the end of all mankind; and the one alive should take [it] to his heart."
marcoleitaosilvaFour out of five Britons say people should be allowed to help their terminally ill relatives take their own lives, a YouGov poll says.
It is illegal in the UK to help someone die and those who do so could be jailed for up to fourteen years.
One option is going abroad to countries where assisted suicide is legal, but campaigners say for that shouldn’t be necessary.
Marco Leitão Silva reports.