Source: Persuasion
by Matt Johnson
“Liberal democracies are rights-based societies. Citizens have a right to equal protection under the law, to safety, and to a wide range of public services. We have the right to freedom of conscience, expression, and assembly. We have the right to choose our leaders through free and fair elections. The idea of rights is foundational to governance and society across the democratic world. But there’s one right that many democratic societies refuse to grant, and it may be the most consequential of them all — the right to die. It’s a strange incongruence that so many rights-focused democratic societies force terminally ill people to remain in a state of immense and indefinite suffering against their will.” (12/02/24)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-new-paradigm-for-assisted-dying