Perspectives on assisted dying

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There is no shortage of collections or individual papers on assisted dying and other end-of-life issues. They have been a regular feature of ethical evaluation and debate for many years. The fact that such papers continue to be published is testimony not only to a continuing awareness of professional and lay concerns, but also to changing circumstances, particularly regarding some measure of shift in legal constraints or public opinion. Yet, above all, the continuing debate reflects both a failure to convincingly win the argument one way or the other, and highlights the persistence of seemingly intractable opposing views, unlikely to be easily swayed. …