The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

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Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

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Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

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But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

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Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

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People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

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