***Firstly Id just like to thank everyone who has signed and shared my petition so far. I currently have 637 signatures, and Im really looking for 1000s of more.*** ***If anyone out there knows of other ways I can possibly advertise this petition apart from on FB & Twitter, Id be prepared to pay if I have to, not that I can really afford to as I cant work and Im only on the Disability Pension, if it was a legitimate website / company. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, I can be contacted on. [email protected] •My Petition & And A Write Up On My Story: change.org/en-AU/petitions/australian-federal-governmet-voluntary-euthanasia-dying-with-dignity-ve-law-reform?recruiter=91642182&utm_campaign=twitter_link_action_box&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition • VE Petition / VE Letter To The Hon Tony Abbott MP, I was born with a chronic bowel disease and have had all my large intestine and majority of my small intestine removed over the years and have undergone over 100 operations throughout my life. Due to complications from my abdominal procedures I also have a allot problems with my urinary system and in chronic pain all the time. I suffer from very severe chronic pain due to abdominal adhesions or complete or incomplete bowel obstructions. Since 2007 my chronic pain has increased severely which greatly affects my day to day living, where I required surgery for a bowel obstruction and try to clear out my abdominal adhesions, this surgery latest 18 hours before being rushed back to theatre for a further 6 hours, due to very potential life threating complications from the first round of surgery. I’m on allot of heavy narcotics to try and help my chronic pain but these and completely successful. I’ve been told on multiple occasions that there is nothing surgically they can offer me anymore and that I’m not a candidate for a intestinal transplant due to all my abdominal adhesions and id be just the same after a transplant, all they can do is try to manage my pain the best they can at home and because they don’t class my situation as terminal there is no help that I can receive from palliative care services to receive IV pain relief at home rather than having to be going backwards and forwards to hospital. Last August I was accepted to travel to Dignitas in Switzerland to end my life peacefully and on my terms when I feel the time is right for me. I don’t feel that I should have to travel to the other side of the world to end my life and wish I could do this at in my own home at my choosing, and it doesn’t look like VE laws will be changed in Australia in the near future after allot of attempts that have to date failed to be passed in different states. If VE was finally Re legalised like it was in the 1990’s for a short time there obviously have to have very safeguards put in place and this could very easily be done, just like at Dignitas in Switzerland for example. Obviously I believe that you would have to been proven of bring of sound mind and competent to be able to make such a decision and secondly I feel that must either be terminal, unendurable incapacitating disability, and or unbearable and uncontrollable pain, this is where I meet the criteria. When it comes to end of life choices, we should have the right to end our emence suffering and go out on one’s own terms. This isn.t just for me but it’s for all Austrslians who are suffering from a terminal illness or those in uncontrolable / unmanageable pain and emence suffering. Why should people not be able to have the choice if they are of sound mind and there is nothing more that can be done to relieve there suffering, just like someone with terminal cancer for example. Kind regards, Jay Franklin.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:30:37 +0000
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