Re: The right to die with dignity
Yes.
Most of them.
Hard cases make bad law and I have already said that laws are subject to interpretation.....and that this can be corrupted at worst, flawed at best.
YOU may want the best care for the terminally ill, those who have a tenuous grip on life.....but this may morph into something very different. As previously noted, this a slippery downward slope to set out on.
Harold Shipman may have been all the things you say, but he THOUGHT he was doing his patients a favour by releasing them from their lives.
I do not make that choice for you....the law does.
I am pretty sure that if faced with the scenario you portray, both you and I have the knowledge and the wherewithal to make our own choices concrete....law or no law.
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