Assisted dying is the final triumph of market capitalism
Giles Fraser The Guardian , Friday 4 July 2014 10.00 EDT http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2014/jul/04/assisted-dying-triumph-market-capitalism 'Assisted dying opens up an emotional minefield of second-guessing and lonely choices.' Photograph: Getty Images I have seen many people die. Some slip away on a cloud of morphine. Others go in pain, coughing and spluttering, vomiting up their insides. It is a no-brainer which one we would all prefer – not least because the latter is a cause of such huge distress to those who lovingly gather round the patient's bedside. The case for assisted suicide is made every time we see another human being dying in terrible pain. But however compelling, this argument must also be set in the context of the more complicated hydra-like emotional pain that is generated by the process of dying. And I ...