Shake Hands With the Grim Reaper

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    They want to tell me about their mother, their husband, their grandmother. Newspapers were a little more kindly in those days, and we tended not to go into too much detail, but I had to listen to it.

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    And I remember that coroners never used the word "insanity". There was ambivalence to the phrase, a suggestion of the winds of fate and overwhelming circumstance. And that is why I dislike the term "assisted suicide" applied to the carefully thought-out and weighed-up process of having one's life ended by gentle medical means. The people who thus far have made the harrowing trip to Dignitas in Switzerland to die seemed to me to be very firm and methodical of purpose, with a clear prima-face case for wanting their death to be on their own terms.

    In short, their minds may well be in better balance than the world around them.

    He did not want to die a curious kind of living death. He wasn't that kind of person.

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    There would have been tears, of course there would; tears would be appropriate and insuppressible. I got involved in the debate surrounding "assisted death" by accident after taking a long and informed look at my future as someone with Alzheimer's and subsequently writing an article about my conclusions.

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    As a result of my "coming out" about the disease I now have contacts in medical research industries all over the world, and I have no reason to believe that a "cure" is imminent. Back in my early reporting days I was told that nobody has to do what the doctor tells them.

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    Although, generally speaking, it's best not to be dragging a portable life support system down the steps with you. I remember what George said and vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. Not so long ago, they took place in your own bed. The Victorians knew how to die. They saw a lot of death. And Victorian and Edwardian London were awash with what we would call recreational drugs, which were seen as a boon and a blessing to all.

    Departing on schedule with the help of a friendly doctor was quite usual. Does that still apply? It would seem so.