Rethinking Assisted Dying: Dignity, Care, and Social Responsibility

I am revisiting my views on assisted dying having read this very thoughtful article from Kathleen Stock.

Really worth a read, irrespective your view on the furore around her activism on gender which I haven’t myself really got to grips with.

Edited: This is one of those ones I should have read a few more times before posting! But does make some interesting points that I hadn't heard before. In particular this about the provocative headline:

"From this angle, the legalisation of euthanasia does nothing to increase dignity but provides new ways to undermine it, and especially in the present non-ideal context where social care is already underfunded and overstretched. If by “people should be allowed to die with dignity” politicians really mean “people should be put out of their misery” — and where that misery is a direct function of inadequate and demeaning care standards — they should say as much, explicitly, and not hide behind sentimental language designed to make them sound like moral heroes.