Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide – Lessons from Belgium (3 videos)
Ascombe Bioethics Centre (UK)
Twickenham
Euthanasia has been legal in Belgium since 2002, and in 2014 euthanasia was legalised for children, with no lower age limit. In November 2014 aninternational group of clinicians and bioethicists met in London to discuss the Belgian experience, and whether lessons can be learned. Public safety, the effects of legal euthanasia on medicine and society, matters of conscience and human dignity, and the relationship between euthanasia/assisted suicide and palliative care, were discussed among other topics.
Three interviews filmed at St Mary’s University Twickenham, during an international day conference on “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Lessons from Belgium”. This event was hosted by the Anscombe Centre, and co-sponsored by The Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, St Mary’s University and KU Leuven.
– Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor: “Euthanasia for people ‘tired of life'”
– Dr Benoit Beuselinck: “The impact of euthanasia in practice”
– Professor Stefaan Van Gool: “Euthanasia in Children”
The conference was organised by the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, and cosponsored by the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, St Mary’s
University, London and KU Leuven.
For a report of this event, which included seven speakers, please see the link below, and for details of a forthcoming volume, please see our publications pages.
The Anscombe Centre is a Roman Catholic academic institute that engages with the moral questions arising in clinical practice and biomedical research. It brings to bear on those questions principles of natural law, virtue ethics, and the teaching of the Catholic Church, and seeks to develop the implications of that teaching for emerging fields of practice. The Centre engages in scholarly dialogue with academics and practitioners of other traditions. It contributes to public policy debates as well as to debates and consultations within the Church. It runs educational programmes for, and gives advice to, Catholics and other interested healthcare professionals and biomedical scientists.
