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The Sunday Debate: Assisted Dying Should Be Legalised

Intelligence Squared

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Don't Do It, Let Me Help You to Live

I think we're all being a little bit sort of miopic on this and focusing on individual cases. What we're ignoring is the broad brush stroke of what it's going to do to our attitude to society if we endorse it. As soon as you you stamp approval on giving up because your life isn't worth living, it changes,. it changes society's attitude in a way that we're all ignoring. If i go back to my daughter, as i say she is, she, at the moment, is going through unbearable suffering. Now if ciety says, instead of fixing your suffering, let's give up, then i'm terrified for her life. We must help you make

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