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Legalised killing is a permissive step too far

Make no mistake: while Debbie Purdy seeks only clarification of the law as regards the prosecution of her husband, should she opt to go to another country to commit suicide, her backers, the recently rebranded Voluntary Euthanasia Society, have a bigger target in view. Now going by the name of Dignity in Dying, they seek to achieve a change in our own law so that the state will be given the authority to stamp "suitable to die" on some people.

Make no mistake: while Debbie Purdy seeks only clarification of the law as regards the prosecution of her husband, should she opt to go to another country to commit suicide, her backers, the recently rebranded Voluntary Euthanasia Society, have a bigger target in view.