Should MPs legalise assisted dying? Our panel responds | Rachel Clarke, Lucy Webster, Gaby Hinsliff, Maureen Anderson, Charlie Corke and Nims Obunge

Should MPs legalise assisted dying? Our panel responds | Rachel Clarke, Lucy Webster, Gaby Hinsliff, Maureen Anderson, Charlie Corke and Nims Obunge

Rachel Clarke: If we truly cared about those dying, palliative care would be properly funded Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first heart transplant, vividly skewered the notion of patients “freely” choosing to have such dangerous, experimental surgery. They were, he wrote, like someone chased by a lion to the bank of a … Read more