English - Journalist | December 27, 1946 -
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
Polly Toynbee
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In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.
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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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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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My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
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But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
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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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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
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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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