Assisted Suicide

Would you assist a loved one in ending their life? What would you need to know first?

Dudley Clendinen’s “The Good Short Life” is a meditation on choosing death. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go raises questions about what we owe the dying. Atul Gawande’s “Hard Conversations” chapter from Being Mortal addresses how we talk about death.

Miriam Toews’ All My Puny Sorrows and Peter Singer’s Practical Ethics explore the ethics of MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying). What makes a death “good”? Who decides when suffering is enough?