Do We Have The Right To Die? With Lady Hale and Rowan Williams (Part Two)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. Should assisted dying be enshrined as a fundamental right, or does it place our most vulnerable citizens in profound danger? In this episode we'll return for part two of our recent live debate with former Supreme Court President Lady Hale and former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Hale and Williams joined us at King's Place to discuss the urgent and divisive question of a sister dying.

Chaired by doctor and broadcaster Dr. Zan van Taliken, this event marked the launch of Do We Have the Right to Die, the second book in our partnered Think Again book series published by The Bodley Head. If you haven't heard part one, we recommend jumping back an episode to catch up. But now let's return to the discussion live at King's Place in London. You've talked about criteria and circumstances.

And the resources question raises issues which they found in Canada, where people say, well, my life is unbearable because I'm homeless, because I live in terrible poverty. And these solutions could be found to these things. These are not unsolvable problems. To what extent could a law allow for those things? And to what extent should we consider that differently to someone with a severe illness?

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