PAOLA died last Wednesday morning. She knew the time of her death in advance, having arranged to go to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. She…
She knew the time of her death in advance, having arranged to go to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. She knew too she had options – options that many people who don’t have the considerable sums of money needed to follow her example do not.
The public too is supportive. During the three-month consultation process, more than three-quarters of the respondents were supportive of the bill. I think it perfectly fair and reasonable that health professionals with a conscientious objection to assisted dying should not have to be part of the process in the same way as anti-abortionists’ convictions should be respected.What does not seem either fair or reasonable is that the views of less than a quarter of the public should be superimposed on the rest of the citizenry.
That legal security blanket allows them to face the future without the gnawing fear of having to cope with what might become unbearable pain. We certainly need, as a society, to give our disabled citizens a much better deal – and not least those who save the Government many billions by caring for them.
Art doesn’t always imitate life, but sometimes it is a useful way of illustrating it. Many thousands of people who didn’t read Andrew O’Hagan’s masterful Mayflies were introduced to the assisted dying debate by the television mini-series based on it.
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