They were all worth fighting, but at the last what mattered was not just how he had lived his life but where he was able to die, in a free, non-racial, democratic South Africa.
Bell explains that he believes that Dana was finally able to die after serving a purpose saving the lives of the people on the train.
Pavan Dhaliwal, of BHA, said: "This legal case is necessary to establish that being able to die, with dignity, in a manner of our choosing, should be understood to be a fundamental human right.
"I was sad, but I was happy that he was able to die as he wanted — at home, not in a hospital room hooked up to a machine," Mr. Keating said.
As ethicist John Rawls put it (with much more sophistication than I do here): You ought to be able to die and come back as anybody in a given society and be OK with where you landed.
"A man ought to be able to die without people speaking poorly of him," he said, finally.
And if there is a carer who is reliable they might be able to die at home.
Thus rapid response services appear to prevent crisis admissions and increase the number of patients able to die at home, though these evaluations lack the power to provide an adequate evidence base without a control group.
Now, I thought, if only I can be in a play with the Guv'nor himself, I'll be able to die happy.
"We debated a lot about whether or not you should be able to die in the game.
