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Last Rights: The Case for Assisted Dying (Hardcover)
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Last Rights: The Case for Assisted Dying (Hardcover)
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The coronavirus pandemic has made society's relationship with death
and dying everybody's business. We have had to confront new
challenges around the way we care for dying people, yet the old
problems have not gone away. In February 2018, Dennis Eccleston,
suffering in agony from terminal cancer, took an overdose of pain
medication to end his own life, helped by his wife Mavis. Mavis was
charged with murder. The turmoil that followed sheds light on the
brutal impact of the UK's failure to legalise assisted dying. Sarah
Wootton and Lloyd Riley of the campaign group Dignity in Dying
argue that our laws and culture governing death and dying need
radical reform and present a vision of what dying in the
twenty-first century should look like. From votes for women to
equal marriage, campaigners have had to fight for rights that now
seem sacrosanct. As the pandemic now forces us to re-examine how we
die, Wootton and Riley show how choice at the end of life is a
right whose time has come. Bringing to light the heart-breaking
testimony of those who have witnessed unimaginable suffering at the
end of life and exposing the hypocrisy of the arguments put forward
to oppose progress, Last Rights questions how future generations
will judge us if we fail to take action and issues a call to arms
for people to unlock their power and demand change.
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