One 1980s campaign tried to transcend Dying: to escape dependence, and eliminate suffering. Instead, terrible and material harms resulted. We meet the killers. In the 20th Century progressive campaigns emerged in the British establishment, promising soaring freedoms.

This first in a series explores what happened when these campaigns hit reality: and they delivered us instead to a bleak, unbounded void. ‘Nothingism’, rather than Progressivism.

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This is a story of men, as by the time we meet them, most of the women involved are already dead. Warning for some violent content ahead.

The man who killed from ‘kindness’ In January 1980 a 79 year old woman called Christina Hunter died in Dundee. Her husband - a retired police officer - had subjected her to a dreadful, sustained violent assault. She had been married to her husband for 40 years, had grown up children with him, but had been suffering from ‘senility’ (what we’d probably now call dementia) for several years. Her husband Robert had been caring for her - he’d ‘had to take over the complete running of the house’. Press reported that Christina had been wandering from their old folks flat, that her behaviour had become ‘challenging’ or ‘aggressive’, and that Robert Hunter had been told it was time for his wife to go into a care home. Instead he killed her. this is the story of the campaigner who came to his aid, the man who decided to run a private death enterprise, and the devilish creature he unleashed. What happened next would bring down the leadership of a major assisted dying campaign, and take a cruel toll of vulnerable Brits. All of it has been forgotten: we must learn from this as that campaign comes closer to becoming reality. you must head over to our Substack to see some of the staggering news reports from the time: