A personal essay by the writer Will Self arguing that we should accept the right of people nearing the end of their lives, to take matters into their own hands if they wish. This may seem rather shocking to you but I am expecting to kill myself. Really I am, and if you'll hear me out I hope to at least nudge society in the direction of considering suicide acceptable when - and this is the important point - the alternative is a slow painful death from a terminal illness. Why? Well, the facts are pretty persuasive when it comes to the business of British dying. We're living longer and longer, while our deaths are becoming commensurately more protracted. Such is the brilliance of...
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