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I do not hold a moral, religious or ethical position on the right to live or die. Like many other disabled people who live close to death, my perspective is purely practical. In this chapter, I look at two sets of circumstances, one in which disabled people have sought to change the law and one in which we are fighting to maintain the status quo. The first concerns the existing right of doctors to cease to treat a patient if, in their clinical judgement, it has no benefit and would prolong intolerable suffering. The second involves the on-going campaign for the legalization of assisted dying and voluntary euthanasia.
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