Woden Police: Thank you

It’s nice to hear positive accounts of the people in blue for a change, and condolences for your loss. I can only imagine how traumatic a situation it would be. And kudos to the RiotAct community for showing restraint in not spewing forth with the inevitable small-bird jokes. Anybody who did so would surely have a poultry number of brain cells.

I’m sorry to hear about your aunt, and I’m glad to see such glowing endorsements of the AFP for a change.

Police that I personally know perhaps aren’t as understanding or open minded as I would like them to be outside the line of duty – but to me that makes their professionalism even more creditable.

I’m another that wishes we had another option for someone in your aunt’s position. It’s not fair on her to have to come up with this solution, and it’s not fair on you and your family to be left with the feeling of helplessness that I would imagine results from an 87 year old having to take such steps to retain her dignity.

Sorry to hear that sad news, my condolences for your loss and this very sad time. The AFP are a top tier organisation and many people forget about the hard work they do for our benefit that isn’t in the newspapers. Though I am always critical of public service, I do assume things such which you have so graciously and commendably highlighted. So in advance, the men and women in the job, Thank you also

And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
~John Henry Newman

Thanks all for your thoughts. I will definitely be sending them a letter of thanks once everything is finalized 🙂

Sorry for your loss.

The right to choose should be an option for all people – I have an elderly family member who is talking about doing exactly this….. I do not look forward to it (the aftermath and her loss) but I support her right to choose the right time.

Also great to hear that the police were so supportive.

Hats off to the cops and other services involved. They do a very, very difficult and sometimes dangerous job with little thanks and not much reward. Everybody yells loudly for them when they are needed, but curses them when they inconveniently show up with an RBT or radar trap.

And I’m sorry to hear about the OP’s aunt. That’s a sad, sad thing. On the other hand, my wife’s mum passed away a few years ago in her nineties and her last few years were a misery due to mental and physical deterioration. She desperately wished to be able to end it all, but she couldn’t and nobody could help her.

Hopefully, by the time I reach that age all the boomers before me will have seen the light and arranged for the legislative changes required to make voluntary euthanasia legal.

I am very moved by this story, thank you for sharing

Nice to see a rare story about compliments for the AFP here.

so sorry to hear about your aunt. Glad to hear the Police provided their service with such discretion and sensitivity.

Morgan said :

Situations like these make me wonder why there isn’t a legal way for people to make their own decisions in a supported and autonomous way which doesn’t require the Police to conduct a criminal investigation.

Without getting into the whole euthanasia debate (my personal opinion is that people should be able to do whatever they want with their own lives) Wouldn’t you prefer that police had a bit of a look to make sure that you weren’t murdered and it was staged to look like a suicide? Either straight out murder by someone or “granny is a burden, let’s take her for a ‘walk’ out in the woods”.