Assisted Dying
Fighting for the Right to Die
Lecretia Seales is dying of a brain tumour, and is lobbying the government to reform the laws on assisted dying. The 41-year-old Wellington senior public lawyer was diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and… Audio
Euthanasia backers in new bid for legal end to suffering
Terminally ill patients are launching a new campaign in an attempt to win the right to be able to legally end their lives. Audio
Death Cafés
Contributing editor at Harper's Bazaar, and writer for the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Observer, Aeon, and Prospect, discussing her article Take Me to the Death Café. Audio
Living Wills
If the worst happens do you want you life support switched off? It's an intensely personal question but ultimately that decision is out of your hands - it's up to your doctors and your family to… Audio
The Everydayness of Death
It's not that death is a taboo subject, it's just that we've been encouraged not to talk about it. With Dr John Troyer from the University of Bath's Centre for Death and Society. Audio
Discussing voluntary euthanasia
Ideas explores the arguments for and against euthanasia with: Dr Rodney Syme, the author of A Good Death: An Argument for Voluntary Euthanasia; Dr Sinead Donnelly a palliative care specialist who says… Audio
Baroness Ilora Finlay of Llandaff
Palliative care and euthanasia Professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University School of Medicine, and a life peer since 2001, who is visiting New Zealand for a conference and public meeting on… Audio
Terry Pratchett
One of the UK's most popular authors, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease, has strong views on assisted death. Audio
Spiritual Outlook for 6 September 2009
Maureen Garing talks with Jean Cartmell, a member of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society about the right to decide the time and manner of one's death. Audio