Polly Toynbee

"People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."

"But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."

"But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools."

"But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."

"Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying."

"It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy."