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