Assisted dying and our competing visions of hell
Why we need the right to die
Souls in hell from St Thomas a Becket church Salisbury
On one side of the assisted dying debate is the fear of the hell of unbearable pain. As medicine has extended life without extending healthy life, many of us have seen pain and fear on the faces of grandparents and parents. We don’t want them to suffer or to suffer ourselves.
I saw my father-in-law ke…
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