Saturday, 21 February 2015

We’ll all die one day. Isn’t it time we got used to the idea?

We’ll all die one day. Isn’t it time we got used to the idea?


I’m writing this after hearing an apparently innocuous and encouraging snippet of news – that a new lung cancer treatment is capable of giving sufferers a possible “extra 200 days” of life. Another morning, another “battle against cancer” fought, and in this case won – sort of. Yet I find myself rather in sympathy with the one in five Dutch doctors who, it was reported this week, would consider helping someone die even if they had no physical problems but were “tired of living”.

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