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Why the Assisted Dying Bill should pass and why it may not

Eighty five years ago this autumn and not far from where I am writing this, a doctor called Max Schur killed his patient. The man had been suffering from cancer of the jaw, had had half his palate removed and replaced by a plate which aggravated the necrosis in his mouth causing immense pain. The stench created by the condition was so bad that the pati…