Ian McEwan call for extending rights

*Ian McEwan calls for assisted dying rights to extend to dementia sufferers.*

My mother used to say to me: 'If I ever become really terrible, I’d like you to finish me off.' But of course, that’s to commit murder as things stand. Imagine standing up in court and saying: ‘Well, she did say when we were on the beach 20 years ago …' By the time my mother was well advanced and could not recognize anyone, she was dead. She was alive and dead all at once. It was a terrible thing.

Such a person is effectively a zombie. We should have the right to register in advance, when we still have the capacity to think about the question, the request to be killed painlessly if we become zombies.

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