Assisted dying: what should we think?

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  Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

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  Okay, let's make a start.

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  I hope everyone can hear me okay.

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  So good evening and welcome to the LSE, to this public event.

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  So I'm Dr Lewis Ross.

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  I'm a member of the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, which is the host for this event.

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  And I'm very happy to chair this event on assisted dying.

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  So assisted dying policy raises extraordinarily difficult questions about life and death.

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  And at the moment we currently stand at something of a threshold.

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  While there are few states around the world where assisted dying has been permissible for some time,

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  most states do not recognise any right to a state-supported death and treat suicide primarily as a public health matter.

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  Yeah, a growing number of jurisdictions around the world are starting to rethink the law on assisted dying.

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  And the UK, of course, is one of them.

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  So right now proposed law on assisted dying is making its way through the parliament and has provoked vigorous debate.

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  So it's a topic that raises and continues to raise very strong feelings.

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  It forces us to ask deep and difficult questions about ethics, philosophy, law and religion.

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  So what we do at the LSE and what motivated me to host this event when we're confronted with these difficult questions is we try and make progress on them collaboratively.

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  We consider the evidence and we listen to expert opinion.

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  So on that note,

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