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10/10/2014

Dying with Dignity

BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, Dying with Dignity

Adam Gopnick thinks we fail all too often to let people die with dignity.

Adam Gopnik thinks we fail all too often to let people die with dignity at the end of their lives and believes the answer lies in showing deference.

Adam Gopnik thinks we fail too often to let people die with dignity at the end of their lives and believes the answer lies in showing deference.
"Dignity, I think is an exceptional demand, one that depends on at least an illusion or masquerade of an anti-egalitarian, indeed pre-modern - indeed an essentially feudal sense - of deference."
Producer: Sheila Cook.

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