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Edward Turner: I accepted my mother’s right to die, but Dan is different

26 October 2008 · News

Edward Turner: I accepted my mother’s right to die, but Dan is different The sad story of 23-year- old Dan James’ paralysis on the rugby pitch and his subsequent choice of an assisted suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich, to escape what he deemed a “second-class existence”, has troubled me.

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