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Massive concentrations of wealth. Failures in healthcare caused by these concentrations. We could imagine alternative patterns of wealth. We could imagine better healthcare.

But no: we will imagine others, and ourselves, dead.
November 30, 2024 at 3:05 PM
We are in the UK about to give everyone permission to imagine themselves, and others, dead.

And we are doing this at precisely the moment when an ageing population is an increasingly severe economic burden.
November 30, 2024 at 3:05 PM
But there are others who are not only in pain because of inadequate relief. They are suffering in other ways.

Others would benefit from them being dead. Sometimes these others refuse to imagine them dead. But sometimes they give themselves permission.
November 30, 2024 at 3:04 PM
There are people in severe pain, often (but not always) because of inadequate medical care. This matters. Voting in favour of assisted dying is not merely ableism: it is mixed with a good deal else.
November 30, 2024 at 3:02 PM