Dying with Dignity? Five Reasons to Reconsider Voluntary Assisted Dying
A friend of mine shares with me how she’s watching her mother die slowly. The matriarch of the extended family always feared dementia and initially joked to her children that she’d rather die. It may have started as a joke, but it turned into a plea as her personality slowly retreated. Raw in her grief, her daughter’s angry question is posed by wives, husbands and children in nursing homes across the globe: ‘If it were a dog, you’d sooner shoot it than watch it suffer. Why should my mother deserve any less?’ You’d sooner shoot a dog than watch it...