Originally Posted by Chris

The fallacy that personal choice is the ultimate good is dangerous. We do not live in an atomised non-society in which any individual can make a choice about anything without that having any implications for anyone else. We therefore have laws which regulate behaviour in ordered society. And, in one way or another, every law forces a view on those individuals who may wish they were not bound by that law, but are bound by it all the same. This is not sick. To claim it is, is bizarre.

One person’s freedom to choose to die will now come at the cost of creating a mechanism that can - and will - work against those whose palliative care is a burden on family and the State and who will feel a persistent, gentle pressure to make themselves scarce. For me, one person’s right to choose is not worth someone else feeling obliged to kill themselves. Not at all.