Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law

📚 Pre-order my book to get an exclusive ticket to The Feel-Good Productivity Annual Planning Workshop! Website: https://www.feelgoodproductivity.com/?utm_campaign=bonus&utm_source=youtube_long&utm_medium=video_description&utm_content=bulkvidsbefore2021 Amazon: https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/bulkvidsbefore2021 Interview Crash Course Online - https://courses.aliabdaal.com/interview-crash-course-online. Content Note - Candid discussions about suicide and euthanasia. In this video, we take a look at the ethics and law behind family- and physician-assisted suicide. We start with a discussion about family-assisted suicide, and introduce 3 well-known cases that helped shape or illustrate the UK's law around it. We then discuss Lord Falconer's (failed) Assisted Dying bill briefly, before turning to a discussion of the arguments for/against legalising physician-assisted suicide (euthanasia). As I mention in the 'future' segment around 00:48, the stuff about family-assisted suicide, and the cases of Diane Pretty, Debbie Purdy and Daniel James, are probably well outside the scope of what you 'need to know' for medicine interviews. If you're just here for some focused medicine interview prep (and there's nothing wrong with that), you'll get the most value from the final 10 minutes of the video starting at 16:50. But if you're interested in the topic generally, then hopefully you'll find the entirety of the video enlightening. TIMESTAMPS: 16:50 - The ethics of euthanasia / assisted suicide - This is the most important and relevant bit for medicine interviews. The rest is for general interest mostly, and probably not directly helpful for interviews. 00:53 - How to watch this video efficiently 02:32 - Content note about this video 03:49 - Family Assisted Suicide - an introduction 05:34 - Case 1: Diane Pretty 07:33 - Case 2: Debbie Purdy 12:37 - Case 3: Daniel James 13:49 - Physician Assisted Suicide - An introduction 15:10 - Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill 2014 1