What impact does legalisation of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide have on a countrys suicide rate? This question was explored at the symposium Voluntary Assisted Dying and Suicide Prevention through a presentation by Professor David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford and Professor of Bioethics at St Marys University, Twickenham, with a response from Professor David Kissane, from the University of Notre Dame Australia. The event was moderated by Associate Professor Megan Best (The University of Notre Dame Australia).<\/p>\n
The symposium was hosted by the Bioethics and Healthcare Ethics program of the Institute for Ethics & Society as part of a research initiative addressing ethics at the end of life. The timeliness of this event was reflected in the attendance, the symposium drawing 175 registrations comprising an international audience.<\/p>\n
The full impact on a society when euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are legalised is only gradually becoming clear, said A\/Prof Best. We need to understand the risks that such laws hold for vulnerable members of our community, and Notre Dame Australia is well placed to facilitate this.<\/p>\n
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