My Mission: to make information available to you from both the PRO and CON side of the euthanasia and assisted suicide debate.
How?: through my weekly
PODCAST, during which, I will interview politicians, ethicists, medical professionals, interest groups, religion experts, and terminally-ill patients.
Why?: because when my friend Jacobo Luis Fuchs was euthanaised two years ago I was surprised at the lack of information and misinformation floating around about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
Who am I?: Well, I am a Canadian-based, 70 year old, retired corporate communications specialist with a journalism background. I have 5 children, 4 grandchildren and a wonderful wife. Although I have an opinion on the subject of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, I will neither share it with you nor will I inject my opinion on you - my listeners. I will also ensure that my position does not colour the questions I ask of my guests.
In addition to finding the links to my weekly podcasts on this blog, you will soon find my podcasts on
iTunes HERE.
Please note: my podcast is not meant to be a one-way conversation. Please email me - euthanasiaproandcon@gmail.com - with your concerns, questions, stories, and comments
And finally:
This blog and podcast is dedicated to my friend Jacobo Luis Fuchs and dedicated to his son, Carlos Fox.
Just in case you missed the link to my podcast...
HERE IT IS AGAIN
Our first two podcast guests are:
Sheila
Duffy, a retired journalist, is Convener of FATE - Friends at the End, based in Glasgow Scotland. FATE campaigns to have the law changed to legalise Assisted
Suicide, and to allow those who want to, to end their own lives at a time of their choosing.
www.friends-at-the-end.org.uk
Margaret
Somerville is a Samuel Gale Professor of Law, Professor in the Faculty of
Medicine, and Founding Director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at
McGill University, Montreal, where she has taught since 1978.
Professor
Somerville has a distinguished academic record and an extensive national and
international publishing and speaking record and is a frequent commentator in
all forms of media.
Professor
Somerville has also authored The Ethical
Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit; Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide;
and The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of
the Human Spirit, which she delivered as the nationally broadcast CBC 2006
Massey Lectures. Her just released book is Bird on an Ethics Wire: Battles about Values
in the Culture Wars.
Professor
Somerville consults, nationally and internationally, to a wide variety of
bodies including governments, NGO’s, UN agencies and the private corporations.
She has received many honours and awards including the Order of Australia,
eight honorary doctorates and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In
2003 she was chosen by an international jury as the first recipient of the
UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science; in 2013 she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth
II Diamond Jubilee Medal for services to higher education; and in 2014 she received the Jean Echlin Award for Ethics in
Palliative Care.
