#1123 Philip Nitschke: Assisted Suicide and the Right to Die

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Philip Nitske. He's an Australian humanist author, former physician, and founder and director of the Pro Euthanasia Group. Exit international. And today we're going to talk mostly about assisted suicide. So, Dr. Nitschke, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you. Yeah, very glad very glad to join you. So let's start here by clarify some terms. First of all

уріз асисти суісай What is euthanasia and what is voluntary euthanasia. Well, I think assisted suicide explains itself effectively. I mean suicide is an act where you end your own life and if you If you uh get some assistance, I suppose that classifies as assisted suicide. Euthanasia has to come to mean the uh provision of uh

uh whatever one might need to end one's life w with or without the person's consent. In other words, someone does something to you. uh to peacefully that is the uh the word euthanasia peaceful death to peacefully end your life. And uh I suppose voluntary euthanasia, well, that's a situation where that provision of a service to end your life. is done at specific request of the individual who wishes to die. So I mean that's usual the way the way those words and divisions are are uh are defined.

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