Assisted Dying: Strategy Falling Apart At The Seams?

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater (centre) with campaigners in support of the assisted dying bill Credit: Lucy North/PA Wire

If you’re still undecided about assisted suicide – or, as its supporters prefer to call it, “assisted dying” – I invite you to consider the following quote. It comes from a newspaper interview conducted in 2017 with Henry Marsh, a leading brain surgeon and author of a bestselling medical memoir entitled Do No Harm. The interviewer, from The Sunday Times, asked Dr Marsh about his support for “assisted dying”. And here’s the most extraordinary section of his reply:

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery, by Henry Marsh, re... Surgeon Henry Marsh's passionate and often moving reflections on a life in medicine are not for the faint-hearted

“So much of [the opposition to it] is all bloody Christians,” complained Marsh. “They argue that grannies will be made to commit suicide. Even if a few grannies get bullied into it, isn’t that a price worth paying for all the people who could die with dignity?” DT.