The ban on assisted death ignores the reality of illnesses like dementia | Polly Toynbee

Someone from Britain travels to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland on average every eight days for an assisted death. These death journeys are a grim option, when most people want to die at home surrounded by family and friends. Dementia is now the leading cause of death in the UK, the first time it has caused more deaths than heart disease.Even taking into account some possible savings in health and social care, that could cost the NHS up to £9bn a year – and this doesn’t necessarily herald some miracle cure. All he said about our collapsing social care system was that the cost would be capped for individuals, but not who should pay instead – the young?
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