More to consider around the palliative care end of the assisted dying debate... there is very clearly an issue about the availability of pain management & therefore the experience of end-of-life care...
This debates drawing in more & more evidence but this is unlikely to make it any easier to resolve the balance between freedom of choice and freedom from coercion...
Still the more we know....
#AssiastedDying
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/25/about-20-terminally-ill-people-in-uk-die-in-unrelieved-pain-each-day-research-finds
Emeritus Prof Christopher May /
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