06-25-2011, 10:33 AM
For some time Moors murderer Ian Brady, who with Myra Hindley tortured and killed five children between 1963 and 1965, has been fighting for the right to die, even going on hunger strike once. At a judicial review in 2000 he said: "[...] I have to fight simply to die. I have had enough. I want nothing, my objective is to die and release myself from this once and for all. So you see my death strike is rational and pragmatic. I'm only sorry I didn't do it decades ago, and I'm eager to leave this cesspit in a coffin."
Should prisoners who've been sentenced to serve the rest of their natural life behind bars have the right to commit suicide?
Should prisoners who've been sentenced to serve the rest of their natural life behind bars have the right to commit suicide?
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe