Aiding and Abetting

The right to live, the right to die
It’s my responsibility.
It is my choice or it should be
When life has lost all quality

I am in constant agony
There’s nothing else in life for me
What right have you to prevent me?
from dying with some dignity.

Why do you think I should endure
the agonies that death would cure.
The choice is mine and mine alone
and I have made my wishes known

Who gave you the right to say me nay.
To bid me that I have to stay
Are you prepared to take my place
and face the future that I face.

You have the right to your own view
but you are not entitled to.
Dictate to me what I should do.
Its long past time for a review.

Clarification of the law.
What the law is and what it’s for.
If I should choose the date and time
Of my demise is that a crime.

And if it’s not, assisting me.
Becoming an accessory.
Should not incur a penalty
but seems to do incredibly.

If suicide is not a crime
and is not apparently.
How can you justify the time.
Punishing those who have helped me..

31/07/2009
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poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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