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which were all hypothetical, don t seem to apply. and if you read, as i have done, the hansard account of the debate in parliament six years ago, it was appalling! there were lies and untruths being told. complete nonsense. well, let s go through some of the arguments, because these aren t just about the uk. this is a universal ethical argument. you say the arguments against are all hypothetical. yes. some are just deeply moral. some are concerned with this word dignity that you and others in the sort of dying with dignity movement, as it s called, have co opted. you want the word dignity to belong to you. but there are many ethicists who say that s fundamentally wrong because it implies that there s something intrinsically undignified about living with terminal illness and living with pain. not necessarily. the point is there are many ways of dying. you know, there s no single way of dying. we re all the same when we re dead, and the last few hours or days are more or less the s

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