The Final Choice

Context and comparisons are essential when considering how a law change like this will work. Having a basic hand-hold on international data and getting insight into what equivalent laws are doing will help us predict the future application of the legislation we’re voting on.

Confronting death… it’s an opportunity in disguise. Understanding more about the natural dying processes, the care services we have operating, and reviewing our experiences with loved ones dying brings relief and power into the conversation around assisted dying.

The profession that will be most impacted by this law is medicine. Doctors will be tasked with the job of outworking the assisted dying process. How do they approach this law? What do they think? And how would this impact their jobs?

“Do you support the End of Life Choice Act coming into force?” - it seems like a pretty simple question… but ethicists across the world, including one with nine doctorates, Professor Margaret Somerville, say this vote will fundamentally and historically change the medical ethical landscape. Find out why.

Dunk yourself in opposite ends of the spectrum to get a basic understanding of key issues surrounding assisted dying, with campaigners that have been fighting for and against a law change like the one we now see. Their perspectives introduce us to the complexity of the question we are being asked in our binding referendum at the upcoming election.