Anscombe Memorial Lecture 2023 – Dr Roberto Andorno, ‘Assisted Suicide, Autonomy and the Common Good’
Watch on YouTube🗣 Dr Roberto Andorno delivered the Anscombe Memorial Lecture 2023 on ‘Assisted Suicide, Autonomy and the Common Good’. Dr Andorno is Associate Professor of Biomedical Law and Bioethics at the Law Faculty, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, of the University of Zurich.
🙏🏻 This Lecture was made possible by a generous grant from the St Francis de Sales Charitable Trust, for which the Centre would like to express its profound appreciation.
📚 For more cutting-edge contributions clarifying key issues at stake in the social, political, and medical debate over euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS), see our updated briefing paper series.
🎥 For other Anscombe Memorial Lectures since 2012, see our playlist here. You can also see the full playlist of all our EAS-related videos, here.
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Sincerest Thanks for Your Support
Staff are grateful to all those who sustained the Centre in the past by their prayers and the generous financial support from trusts, organisations, communities and especially from individual donors, including the core funding that came through the Day for Life fund and so from the generosity of many thousands of parishioners. We would finally like to acknowledge the support the Centre has received from the Catholic community in Ireland, especially during the pandemic when second collections were not possible.
We would like to emphasise that, though the Centre is now closed, these donations have not been wasted but have helped educate and support generations of conscientious healthcare professionals, clerics, and lay people over almost 50 years. This support has also helped prevent repeated attempts to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide in Britain and Ireland from 1993 till the end of the Centre’s work on 31 July 2025.