Stephen Hawking, “icon”, “genius as celebrity” and Lucasian Professor of
Mathematics at Cambridge was diagnosed at age 21 with motor neurone disease. He
was given two years to live and became profoundly depressed.
It’s highly unlikely that even in those circumstances a man of Hawking’s
spirit and character would have opted for it, but under the terms of David
Seymour’s depressing, defeatist Assisted Suicide bill he’d have been a dead cert to qualify for
euthanasia.
What great potential, achievements and inspiring triumphs of the human
spirit will be lost to our nation if we decide to legalise assisted suicide?
Think about it.
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