Goodbye, Lecretia!

I have just head that Lecretia Seales died of natural causes a few hours ago. I feel personally and intensely bereaved by the loss of a lady I never met. 

Her bold approach to the High Court for a declaratory judgment that her general physician should be able to give her the means to end her life when she chose will now have no relevance for her. 

She didn't die for a "Cause". She just died. Indeed, she never said that she would necessarily take steps to end her own life. But she argued, persuasively, that if she were in intolerable suffering, she should have that right.

Now she is gone and her argument is ended. But perhaps the judgment that is yet to be delivered may drive a wedge into implacable parliamentary resistance to even discussing the matter.