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Daily Maverick spoke to right-to-die activist and DignitySA founder Professor Sean Davison about his new book, ‘The Price of Mercy’, and the cause he simply ‘can’t walk away from’. Daily Maverick spoke to right-to-die activist and DignitySA founder Professor Sean Davison about his new.
The plight of people who feel that their suffering is unbearable or that their experience of disability is unacceptable to themselves should be a catalyst for South Africans to debate the meaning of compassion, writes University of Pretoria historian of medicine Julie Parle.
In Italy, a country with deep Catholic roots, euthanasia has long been a controversial topic. The practice, condemned by the Church, is punishable by law with a sentence ranging from 5 to 12 years in prison. But this year, the case of a 43-year-old man identified as Mario, who was paralyzed in a tra.