Why I Admire This Couple ; in This Highly Personal Piece - One That Many May Disagree with - Bel Mooney Argues That She has a Sacred Right to a Good Death [Scot Region]
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THIS week, two news stories raised, yet again, the profound question: what is a good death? And, in their different ways, both answered it.
On the front pages we saw heart-breaking photographs of the cortege in Wootton Bassett, as eight brave young soldiers returned from Afghanistan in their flag-draped coffins.See the full content of this document
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Why I Admire This Couple ; in This Highly Personal Piece - One That Many May Disagree with - Bel Mooney Argues That She has a Sacred Right to a Good Death [Scot Region]
Also, there was the news that a distinguished conductor and his wife had chosen to end their lives by assisted suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich.
On the one hand, we all mourn eight strapping young men who gave their lives doing their job, but who would have done anything to save their comrades and to stay alive themselves. They had no choice about...See the full content of this document