Debate around the legalisation of assisted suicide (AS) and voluntary euthanasia (VE) continues unabated. This does not stop, however, some remarkably bizarre comments such as 'when is a rational debate going to start?' or 'when is the British Medical Association going to address this?'. But for many I suspect there is a certain weariness as the same old arguments are rehearsed on either side: another dubiously relevant anecdote is milked for its publicity or the simple courtesies of discussion are sidelined into anti-religious ranting or accusations of promoting policies that will lead to the euthanasia practices of the Third Reich.
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