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Assisted suicide

concept · in 5 sources (2017–2018)

Helping a person end their own life.

Sources by year: 2017: 1 · 2018: 4

Threads

Also named in the threads: Ali promises more videos on the BMAT, interviews and personal statements (2017) · Ali says part two of his euthanasia videos, which should be out at some point the following week, will cover assisted suicide, attempts to change the law on it, and its ethics. · Ali predicts UK law will probably change at some point to allow physician-assisted suicide in some form, as the world becomes more libertarian about the right to choose when one's life ends.

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Euthanasia (11) · United Kingdom (8) · Charlotte (5) · Do not resuscitate (2) · Molly Hunt (5) · Medical ethics (3) · Best interests (2) · NHS (2) · Medicine interview (3) · University of Cambridge (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2018

  • 2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — a guest: Active euthanasia, passive euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are all illegal in the UK, because intending to end someone's life constitutes murder. — 00:06:10
    • Ali personally thinks UK law should be changed to allow a little more leeway for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. — 00:16:51
  • 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — recommendation: Ali suggests watching the third video of his medical ethics series, on euthanasia, before this one on assisted suicide. — 00:00:00
    • Ali says the law on assisted suicide is not very high-yield for medicine interviews: applicants revising should focus on the ethics of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, which interviewers are very likely to ask about. — 00:00:58
    • In response to Debbie Purdy's case, the Director of Public Prosecutions agreed with her and issued guidelines on when people would not be prosecuted for assisting suicide. — 00:08:23
    • Being a healthcare professional is one of the guideline criteria in favour of prosecution for assisting suicide, which makes physician-assisted suicide very illegal. — 00:10:57
    • Ali says physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and "passive euthanasia" are all completely illegal in the UK, and a physician who helped a patient commit suicide would be prosecuted. — 00:13:52
    • Ali predicts UK law will probably change at some point to allow physician-assisted suicide in some form, as the world becomes more libertarian about the right to choose when one's life ends. (hedged) — 00:14:21
    • Charlotte gives the argument that legal euthanasia and assisted suicide could pressure vulnerable and elderly people to end their lives because they feel a burden to their families and the NHS. — 00:20:11
    • Molly Hunt: Molly counters that denying access to physician-assisted suicide discriminates against vulnerable people who cannot end their lives without help. — 00:20:55
    • Charlotte argues against legalisation that the aim of medicine is to preserve life, and legalising one form of intentional killing is a slippery slope. — 00:23:15
  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says the Charlie Gard case was not euthanasia, despite many outlets saying so: euthanasia is acting with the intent to kill, and in Charlie's case the intent was never to kill. — 00:21:38
  • …and 18 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

2017