Ali predicts the UK will legalise physician-assisted suicide in some form (2018)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2018-01-17) · owner: Ali
About: Assisted suicide, United Kingdom
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-17 | predicted | 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) | Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law 00:14:21 |
What is said about it
19 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says the candid discussion of suicide and euthanasia in his assisted suicide video is not required knowledge for getting into medical school. — 00:02:26
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says many argue the ban on assisted suicide discriminates against physically disabled people: an able-bodied person may legally end their life, while someone disabled by terminal illness cannot without help. — 00:04:20
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says family-assisted suicide is still technically illegal in the UK, but high-profile cases over the last 25 to 30 years have made the law less draconian. — 00:04:55
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali: 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
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says the Director of Public Prosecutions' guidelines on assisted suicide have about 16 criteria, which most of the cases discussed would meet, and use the term "grudging acquiescence". — 00:09:37
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says a family member who has tried to talk the person out of it and has had to make this difficult choice can be pretty confident of not being prosecuted for assisting suicide. — 00:10:01
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali: Under the prosecution guidelines, people may be prosecuted for assisting suicide if they gain financially, do not know the person, or have helped more than one person. — 00:10:01
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali: 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
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali calls the rules on assisted suicide a grey area, as they are guidelines rather than legislation, but says helping someone commit suicide is very dangerous for a healthcare professional. — 00:11:58
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — 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
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says physician-assisted suicide is legal in quite a lot of countries, including the Netherlands, Switzerland and some US states. — 00:13:52
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali thinks Oregon was the first US state to allow physician-assisted suicide. (hedged) — 00:13:52
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says Lord Falconer tried to put an assisted suicide bill through Parliament in 2015 and failed. (doubtful: 2015) — 00:14:44
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — a guest: Charlotte and Molly say legalising assisted suicide will keep being brought up again and again because it is a really emotive subject. — 00:15:37
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says that since Lord Falconer's bill was thrown out by such a majority, another bill is unlikely in the near future, but public perception may change in about ten years. (hedged) — 00:16:06
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Charlotte: Arguing against legalisation, Charlotte says palliative care focuses entirely on relieving symptoms, so with good palliative care ending someone's life to relieve their symptoms should not be necessary. — 00:18:03
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — 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
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — 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
- 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — 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