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Let’s talk about (assisted) dying

November 29, 2024November 30, 2024 fluff35

There’s something going on here about how we don’t want to take full responsibility for our decisions; we don’t want to think through the issues properly, instead bringing in some text from the past as if it is entirely without its own historical context.

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