The Assisted Dying Debate

The State has no moral claim on a person’s life. Our lives are our own, no one else’s. The State has no right to decide who lives and who dies, and that cuts both ways. A law that criminalises suicide, as we have in the UK, is a feudal overreach, the ultimate codification of serfdom. That is the bottom line. The current ‘debate’ around assisted dying is little more than FUD, driven by religious self-righteousness that is neither capable of genuine compassion nor of the critical self-reflection necessary to understand the depth of its own immorality. Death, and hence suicide, is never a good thing, but no one can answer the question whether it is the worst thing on behalf of an another.