Assisted dying: why Britain should back a change
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Should people have the right to choose how they die? Though many Britons support the principle, a vote on assisted dying in the House of Commons may fail. Donald Trump reshaped the Supreme Court in his first term. His second act could be just as dramatic (09:30). And remembering figurative painter Frank Auerbach (18:10).
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| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Rosie Blois. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 1:21.1 | Donald Trump has already influenced the Supreme Court and American society with the justices he appointed during his first term as |
| 1:29.2 | president. What might happen the second time around? And Frank Albuck arrived in Britain as a child |
| 1:37.6 | refugee from Nazi Germany. He spent the rest of his life trying to fix what he saw around him |
| 1:43.0 | in paint, often returning again and again to the same images. |
| 1:47.6 | Our obituries editor remembers him. |
| 1:57.7 | But first... |
| 2:06.4 | Should people have the right to choose how they die? |
| 2:13.7 | The economist has long argued that a liberal society should let someone who is suffering make a dignified decision about how to end their life. |
| 2:19.9 | Parts of the world do allow that. |
| 2:26.0 | Some people who are terminally ill can legally receive such help, but not in Britain. |
| 2:32.6 | A week from today, MPs will have a chance to change that. |
| 2:36.2 | They will vote on a bill that would be a first step to legalising assisted dying in England and Wales. |
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