Stefanie Green: The ethics of assisted dying

“Right now, it’s like the AI industry has a gas pedal, but it doesn’t have a brake pedal in the car. And what we’re saying is we want to build that brake pedal so we in the world have an option. In the future, you might say: ‘Let’s get all of the benefits we can for, say, biology ...  Show more

“The state of Lebanon needs to have an exclusivity of arms. And definitely, Hezbollah needs to be disarmed… Disarming a group or a community is not possible by force, it's possible by conviction. You put pressure, but you cannot eliminate a whole society, a whole community. We ne ...  Show more

Should anyone be eligible for medical assistance in dying? 

"Choosing Death: Assisted Dying, Assisted Suicide, Murder – Who Decides?"

Autonomy, dignity and compassion. We wish to experience these things in our lives, so why shouldn’t we experience them in our deaths? That’s the argument made by those who support a change in the law to legalise assisted dying in the UK. People who are suffering intractably, they ...  Show more

La France est-elle enfin prête à trancher sur la question de la fin de vie ? Dans une interview donnée à La Croix et à Libération, le président de la République Emmanuel Macron s’est prononcé dimanche 10 mars 2024 en faveur d’une “aide à mourir”. Il ne fait ainsi ni référence à l ...  Show more

Nearly a decade since MPs in Westminster voted against allowing terminally ill people to end their own life, assisted dying is climbing back up the political agenda. The Health and Social Care Committee is due to publish the first report of its kind on the subject after a year-lo ...  Show more