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We should help the sick to live, not hasten their deaths

Under the law as it stands, some people die in pain without the dignity they had hoped for. So began a leader in The Herald last year about the campaign by Indepen�dent MSP Margo MacDonald to legalise physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill.

Under the law as it stands, some people die in pain without the dignity they had hoped for. So began a leader in The Herald last year about the campaign by Independent MSP Margo MacDonald to legalise physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill.