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A brother’s suffering

It is so wrong that the law against assisted suicide means that dying patients are often left without adequate pain relief

issue 27 October 2012

My brother David died recently in the care of the NHS. His death was not their fault: no one can do anything about bone cancer except alleviate the pain. Which is what they spectacularly failed to do.

Bone cancer does not kill you. It just hurts like hell and your bones become so fragile that coughing breaks ribs.

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