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Terminally-ill people who want to end their lives with the help of a doctor, and who have the means to do so, can travel to a handful of countries, notably Switzerland, for assisted dying procedures. Gradually, more countries around the world have begun to permit some form of assisted death. Politicians in a number of others, including Ireland, Scotland and France, are now seriously debating it.
In Canada, where medical assistance in dying (Maid) became legal in 2016, the government intends to extend eligibility to people whose sole reason for ending their life is mental illness. But that planned expansion, now twice delayed, is deeply controversial. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to a leading psychiatrist about the situation in Canada and why he’s a vocal opponent of the expansion.
And stay tuned to our international home page for ongoing coverage of the aftermath of the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian in a helicopter crash.
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Gemma Ware
Editor and Host, The Conversation Weekly, London
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Gemma Ware, The Conversation
Psychiatrist Karandeep Sonu Gaind speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast on why he’s a vocal opponent of Canada’s expansion of its medically assisted dying laws to people with solely mental illness.
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Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, is reported by state media to have died following a helicopter crash.
Iranian Presidency Office via AP
Eric Lob, Florida International University
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced a five day period of mourning following the discovery of wreckage on hillside.
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Scott Lucas, University College Dublin
Iran’s president and foreign minister killed in helicopter crash – we ask an expert what might happen next.
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April J Burt, University of Oxford; Noam Vogt-Vincent, University of Hawaii
Baby corals may hold promise for building coral reef resilience in Seychelles and beyond.
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Danielle Mariann Dove, University of Surrey
Penelope Featherington enters the third season painfully alone, but will she leave it that way?
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Aya Aboelenien, HEC Montréal; Chau Minh Nguyen, HEC Montréal
Millennial parents are actively seeking out toys, books and movies to educate their children about life and teach them values that align with their own.
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Amy Maguire, University of Newcastle
Though the move by the ICC chief prosecutor is a significant one, it’s very unlikely the Israeli or Palestinian leaders will be arrested or face a trial.
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Holly Cullen, The University of Western Australia
The WikiLeaks founder has been granted leave to appeal the order to extradite him to the US. What happens now?
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Joshua McLeod, Deakin University; Hunter Fujak, Deakin University
Several sports leaders from across the globe have recently sought to extend or eliminate term limits. Why should we care, and how long is too long for sport administrators?
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Sally-Anne Wherry, University of Gloucestershire; Hannah Grist, University of Bristol
One person still dies every three days in the UK after receiving contaminated blood in the 1970s and ‘80s. This global scandal has has devastated many families, including those with haemophilia
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Eloise Stevens, The Conversation
Psychologist Deborah Wells explains why dogs are so cute - and yours in particular – on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
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