As we approach some tragic scenes with Hayley's death on Coronation Street, I thought I'd have my two-penneth on the touchy subject of euthanasia/assisted suicide. Now I know it's a bit deep and meaningful for me, but it does have some resinance and it is something that I feel quite strongly about. Between disease and old age, there's a multitude of reasons that can reduce people's quality of life and its how we deal with people once their health deteriorates that concerns me. The Corrie story is horrific and it does show just how quickly diseases like cancer can strike and bring down someones quality of life. In fairness to the soap's, they tend to handle these situations very well and get some excellent advice, with Macmillan Cancer Support working with Corrie on the story. All this helps to raise awareness of people's tragic situations with debillating disease and gets people talking. Talking and then taking notice is something that our politician...
Welcome to the wise words of Mark Ellis, 48 year old gadgee who's married with 3 kids, works in buses, loves athletics & generally has an opinion on lots of things.......