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Dr Ann McPherson: The GP who believes she should be allowed help to end her life
The Monday Interview: A growing number of medical professionals are supporting the idea of assisted dying. Dr Ann McPherson – who herself has only months to live – tells Jeremy Laurance why.
You can click here for the news article and see if you agree.
On a similar theme there is Johann Hari's front page article in the Independent :
The shocking truth about how Britain treats its old people
Both these excellent articles focus on our society's avoidance of facing up to difficult decisions.
We continue to want to bury our heads in the sand.
Many refuse to stop and think about these issues that cause endless pain akin to torture to ageing people.
We operate on the simpleminded view that life must be preserved at all costs - even if it causes great pain to those that are forced to continue living.
In the interests of ourselves for when we grow old and approach death, we need to face up to reality and make some hard choices.
Life of itself is not the important factor.
It is the quality of our lives that is.
Under the present system the state can force us to endure a living hell because it will not face up to what is happening amongst us.
We are inflicting untold (literally) suffering on thousands of people because of our refusal to take time and consider the consequences of our inaction.
I'm truly gratefull to outstanding people like Dr Ann McPherson above who give some much of their energy to getting us to move away from our greedy unthinking lifestile and give more thought to those around us.
Sadly our inaction could well lead to those that read this having to enduring the same fate in twenty, thirty fifty years time.
We all are going to die.
Let's enjoy the process to the end as Dr McPherson appears to be doing
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