#288 - Diane Rehm - Do We Have The Right To Die If We're Terminally Ill?
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Diane Rehm is a former radio presenter, producer and an author.
Talking about the end of life is uncomfortable, but watching someone you love be forced to live on through pain is even worse. Diane has interviewed hundreds of people on the topic of assisted dying from Doctors to Priests, terminally ill patients and ethicists.
Expect to learn why Right To Die Laws are so complex, problematic and applied differently across the world. what the difference is between euthanasia and assisted dying, how to broach the subject with someone you love and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back. |
| 0:02.7 | My guest today is Diane Reem and we're talking about the right to die. |
| 0:07.5 | Discussing the end of life is pretty uncomfortable, but watching someone who you love be forced |
| 0:12.1 | to live on through pain is even worse. |
| 0:14.9 | Diane's interviewed hundreds of people on the topic of assisted dying from doctors to priests, |
| 0:19.5 | terminally ill patients and ethicists. |
| 0:22.2 | So today, expect to learn why right to die laws are so complex problematic and apply |
| 0:26.8 | differently across the world. |
| 0:28.5 | What the difference is between euthanasia and assisted dying, how to broach the subject |
| 0:32.5 | with someone you love and much more. |
| 0:35.8 | This is a bit of a change of pace today, but it's a conversation that I didn't even know |
| 0:40.4 | existed and is obviously something that we're all going to have to face. |
| 0:44.8 | One of the few certainties that we have is that we're all going to die and the people |
| 0:49.1 | around us are going to too. |
| 0:51.8 | So I hope that this conversation frames what is an inevitability in a new light and hopefully |
| 0:58.2 | gets you thinking in a way that maybe makes things a little bit easier. |
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