[Thor]

My Humanist group is bringing in speakers this next year to help us get this conversation going in Iceland, the support for it is quite high and we need to get it on the political landscape to find will and a way to finally tackle this which I believe is inevitable in a modern society.

I'll tell you my story, my father who has Alzheimer's is now at a point where by his often repeated requests he would have wanted to be gone. He feared losing his mind, and by his standards for what he would have considered "time to go" passed about 2 years ago.

I lost my mother to cancer in 96 and it was devastating for the family, but a positive of that is our father became so close to all of us, he was before always the stoic strong father type who rarely shared his feelings, that changed after mom passed away and we all love him desperately. We siblings talked about this not too long ago that we all knew his wishes about not wanting to be wasting away when it reached a certain point, and as painful as it would be to not have him here, its also very tough to see him fading away and losing himself.

At this point it almost feels selfish for us to have him still here, because he's not the father we had all our lives, and every visit to him it eats away at us because we know this is not how he wanted to end his twilight years.

The fact that there is nothing we can do, other than commit a crime to grant his wish is very sad.

But of course, I totally understand the hesitations, scenarios keep popping up about people that should not use euthanasia for a host of minor reasons, I get that, but while people try to stop or slow down this inevitable legislation people who are truly suffering continue to suffer needlessly. That's wrong, we have to be adults about this and tackle this issue head on with safeguards and a process in place that assures we do this right.