To kill or not to kill… is assisted suicide in the UK really a good idea?

The Two Matts

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News, News Commentary, Government, Politics

4.4 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As parliament prepares to debate legalising assisted suicide, the Matts argue their respective corners on its desirability. Also - if they think having a German football manager is bad, wait until they find out about the King’s antecedents. The Matts despair at little England’s bottomless capacity for xenophobia when it comes to Germans. Enjoy!

Content warning: strong language, references to suicide, depression

In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14. Hotlines in other countries can be found here.

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0:53.5	dip your toe into a whole new world of
0:56.5	journalism. Hello, I'm Matt Kelly. And I'm Matt Dancona. And this is the two mats for the
1:00.4	weekending Friday, the 18th of October. The podcast that sometimes has to consider a slippery slope.
1:06.5	What do we talk about, Matt? We talked about and I we had I think we had a really good
1:11.3	conversation getting into the nooks and crannies of it and it is a very nuanced uh issue and we
1:17.8	I think covered a lot of ground and we disagreed didn't we at the end we didn't we did at the end
1:22.1	although um I think you know you made some really good points too and I I I want to carry on
1:27.1	thinking about it too.
1:28.1	It's a great subject.
1:31.0	Well, I certainly hope it raises some points of interest
1:34.4	that will make people consider this incredibly delicate topic.
1:40.3	And so, of course, there's a bit of a content warning, as they say.
1:43.4	Check the show notes for more details.
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