I feel compelled to reblog this superb post by @julijuxtaposed as it clarifies my position in this emotive debate.
I urge you to READ it
I’m all for a law which permits an assisted death. I’m also for ‘living wills’ to be legally respected. I’m for it on the principle of Free Will which, at the most basic level of physical existence, means the right to do with my body as I see fit, for me. If I make a ‘mistake’ then that is my consequence. Yes, probably we could get into an elongated set of what-if overrides – throwing your body in front of a train, for example: that obviously inflicts consequences on others, as does sprinting naked at your child’s school sports day. I’ve done neither of those, by the way. But, for the purposes of assisted dying – as with abortion – I think only those personally and directly affected have any right to try to effect a different choice. By persuasion, that is, not coercion.
I’d read and heard a variety…
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