As we face the final curtain

This is a timely book. Having failed with their Bill in Scotland, the former Voluntary Euthanasia Society (now anomalously morphed into ‘Dignity in Dying’) will not relent in its efforts to legalise assisted suicide which will inevitably weaken the resistance to euthanasia, not least because, if the patient’s and relatives’ own efforts fail, it will be doctors who are called upon to administer the extra fatal dose needed to complete the job.

Trevor Stammers