‘Assisted Dying’ Bill Second Reading
The second reading of the ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill is forthcoming on 22nd October 2021 in the House of Lords. The Bill seems to license doctors to enable terminally ill adult patients, under certain conditions, to end their own lives by the provision of lethal drugs (physician-assisted suicide).
Below we provide links to some articles and resources pertinent to this debate.
The Centre Director, Prof. David Albert Jones, gives eight significant reasons not to legalise physician assisted suicide in David Albert Jones, ‘Eight Reasons not to Legalise Physician Assisted Suicide’, 2015.
Other articles of interest:
• Helen Watt, ‘The Case Against Assisted Dying’
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre has also produced an annotated bibliography of resources, with links to articles, including some that are open access:
• David Albert Jones, ‘Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Guide to the Evidence’, 2015
Related Issues:
• Michael Wee, Coronavirus and the misuse of ‘do not resuscitate’ orders, The Spectator, 6 May 2020
• Luke Gormally, ‘Human Dignity and Respect for the Elderly’, 1998
• Anscombe Bioethics Centre, ‘The Ethics of Care of the Dying Person’, 2013
• David P. Sulmasy, ‘The Varieties of Human Dignity: A Logical and Conceptual Analysis’, 2012
• Dr Mark Komrad MD explains why psychiatrists should oppose euthanasia for their patients
• Dr Benoit Beuselinck draws attention to lessons to be learned from Belgium
Finally, see our resources section for the full complement of the Centre’s essays and articles on euthanasia.
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