
Why we all deserve a life worth living & a death worth dying for Most men don't fear death They fear those things
- the knife the shipwreck the illness the bomb
- which precede by microseconds if you're lucky & many years if you're not the moment of death' When Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in his fifties he was angry
- not with death but with the disease that would take him there & with the suffering disease can cause when we are not allowed to put an end to it In this essay broadcast to millions as the BBC Richard Dimblebly Lecture 2010 & previously only available as part of A Slip of the Keyboard he argues for our right to choose
- our right to a good life & a good death too