A new right-to-die society has sprung up in the UK. The Society for Old Age Rational Suicide (SOARS) wants to press the case for assisted suicide for people who are not terminally ill. “After eight or nine decades, many people rightly decide that their lives have been fully lived, and now they have a life which, for them, has finally become too long,” its website declares. The leader of the group is 79-year-old Michael Irwin, who is now being dubbed “Dr Death” by the British media. He is a controversial figure who was deregistered as a doctor after he helped a friend to die in 2005. He admits having helped several people to commit suicide. Telegraph
Editor: Makes me want to come up with a more appropriate acronym -- SORES, Suicide of Rebellious Elderly . . . help me out.
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