Monday, 30 December 2013

Fwd: The killing blow

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From: "Arj Subanandan" <arj.name@googlemail.com>
Date: 24 Dec 2013 12:20
Subject: The killing blow
To: "arj. name. blog" <arj.name.blog@blogger.com>
Cc:

As usual I've been slow to figure out something obvious.

At the end of any assisted suicide pathway a person needn't be killed. Instead they are given the means to deliver the killing blow themselves.

Rather than being beheaded by an axeman I would be provided with a self-activated guillotine. I deliver my killing blow and there is no quandary about committing murder.

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