Just as the debate was reaching new heights of self-righteous pomposity, Eluana, the girl in the coma for 16 years whose feeding tube was removed last week, has stolen a march on them all. By dying.
I am not sure we British, or anyone else, would have managed this much better, but it has been a period from which neither the politicians nor the girl's family nor indeed the press have come out well. Even those, like me, who are against the legalisation of euthanasia will find it hard to resist a feeling of relief that it is all over.
One change which could be introduced would be to enforce the privacy of the patient, whether the relatives want it or not.
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