Is the public mood to assisted suicide softening? Where before the swirl of comment arising from an individual’s decision to bring forward their own death would relegate the most important opinion, that of the one who was suffering, to a posthumous echo, on this occasion the immediate reaction to Daniel James’s choice (’He wasn’t prepared for a second-class life’: why injured rugby star went to Switzerland to die, October 18) has been measured. Responses have in the main focused on his proven determination to die, and his parents’ vivid description of a life dominated by suffering.
Letters:Respect for autonomy and the right to live and die with dignity - The Guardian 21st October 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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