Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
(Incidentally, there was an item on Radio 4 today about a woman with MS. She plans to go to Switzerland eventually, where assisted suicide is legal, and end her life there.
Indeed it is legal here to help a person end her/his life. The organisations providing this "service" are not above suspicion of getting a financial profit out of it so currently at least one of them is under investigation. Furthermore, they have difficulties finding a decent place for their "business", once an assisted suicide was carried out in a car on a parking lot.
Not exactly my idea of a decent location to end a life.

As for todays youth being worse than those before: A recent study in Switzerland showed that this isn't exactly the case. The rate of youngsters dropping out of school, having a criminal record or generally "failing" in life hasn't grown over the years.
But those few (after all, it IS still a small minority) who do have a criminal record have committed worse crimes than those who had such a record a couple of years back.
And they probably get much more attention in todays media.