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Simon Heffer: Assisted Suidice is Pointless

28 Nov

Here’s a sad but amusing quote from Simon Heffer in the Telegraph this weekend:

One of Labour’s great triumphs with the National Health Service is that people now go into hospital to die rather than to be cured. It seems to render the whole debate about assisted suicide utterly pointless. Who needs a Dignitas clinic when you can check into a hospital in Basildon and be relatively certain to be taken out in a box?