LIFE ISSUES Assisted suicide and our society of autonomy*

The individualism required by a society of autonomy shuts down love, dependence, and self-sacrifice. To extinguish grief, we are told, we must extinguish the grieving.


Economics Nobel laureate
Amartya Sen

On Friday, September 11, the UK’s House of Commons considered and voted down an Assisted Dying Bill. It was its first vote on voluntary euthanasia since 1997.
The aim of the bill was “to enable competent adults who are terminally ill to choose t…

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