Individual suffering can’t justify this assisted dying bill

Sometimes, the manner of dying can rend the heart. No one reading Jonathan Dimbleby’s account of his brother’s death from motor neurone disease, or Anthony Horowitz’s description of his mother’s death from pancreatic cancer, can fail to sympathise with their anguish. Or with their frustration that a less distressing way of ending the pain wasn’t available. Still, it’s not enough to feel; we also have to stand back and think. And once we start thinking, the conclusions that Dimbleby and Horowitz draw from their experiences become less persuasive.

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