Tag: Assisted Suicide
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Autonomy’s Suicide
10 February 2024. Campaigners to legalise assisted suicide invoke the principle of arbitrary autonomy. This threatens to give us a libertarian society at the expense of a humane one. “There should be a booth on every corner where you could get a martini and a medal.” No doubt the novelist Martin Amis was exaggerating for…
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An Exchange on Assisted Suicide
Following a recent decision by the High Court rejecting a challenge by Noel Conway to change the law on assisted suicide (a decision influenced by Parliament’s rejection of a bill on assisted suicide in June 2015), The Times has published an exchange of letters on the nature and ethics of assisted suicide: Prof Nigel Biggar’s letter of April 1 elicited a response from…