Last week, the U.K. Parliament voted to legalize medically assisted suicide, if a doctor agreed that death was likely within six months, and a court agreed. Proponents of the bill, which has not yet received final approval, said that the aim was to shorten death, not life.
If it passes to become the law of the land, the United Kingdom will quickly find out what Belgium, Denmark, and Canada have discovered. People who are actually in their death throes rarely ask doctors for death. They ask for pain medicine. They ask to see their loved ones.
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