Jane Miller: 'I'm Not Sure I Really Will Die'

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If it is true that we have 10 extra years of life nowadays, but that eight of them bear more than a shadow of decrepitude and the complicated moral choices inflicted on us by medical advances, we will need to work out how to get more control over the ways there may be of ending it all.

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