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Assisted Dying: What’s really at stake? In conversation with Ilora Finlay and Julian Hughes

Assisted Dying: What’s really at stake? In conversation with Ilora Finlay and Julian Hughes

Nick Spencer speaks with Crossbench Peer and honorary professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University, Ilora Finlay, and former professor of philosophy and old age psychiatry, Julian Hughes. 12/11/2024

Assisted Dying is back on the legislative agenda, with parliament voting on it this autumn. It is a profound and contentious debate about which good and well–meaning people can and do disagree deeply.

What is really at stake here? Apart from the obvious, the debate kicks up some profound and difficult questions about most important ideas concerning human life.

For example, how far should we respect people’s autonomy and choice? What constitutes a meaningful life? And what is the meaning of human dignity?

Buy a copy of Ilora and Julian’s book ‘The Reality of Assisted Dying’ here.

 


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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 12 November 2024

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