In the 21st century, we have something better to offer than leaving our fellow human beings to jump in front of a train or shoot or poison themselves. Really caring forpeople means taking their wishes seriously, meeting them at eye level. People contemplating suicide deserve respect, care, compassion, taboo-free communication, and safe, legal end-of-life options. Not belittling them as vulnerable. Not labelling them as mentally ill and potentially incompetent. Not upholding the taboo on suicide and the end of life.
3 March 2021
Sanctity of Life and Death with Dignity
Talk and Q & A round with participants of The Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP), from the Universities of Tokyo, Leiden and Geneva (Link to HCAP)
Talk and discussion with executive students of the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA; coursework Business of Medicine Physician MBA, Global Healthcare Experience in Switzerland & The Netherlands. (PDF)
Assisted Dying Debate at the Jersey Arts Centre (Link)
30 March 2019
The Swiss system of assisted dying – and beyond
Talk and discussion at the annual meeting of RTVD Rätten Till en Värdig Död (Link), the Swedish right-to-die organisation, Stockholm
23 November 2018
Time is running – do we need to catch up? Care and choice in life and at life’s end
Speech and discussion at the docnet Symposium, Doctoral Network at the University of St. Gallen.
4 October 2018
Talk and discussion together with Dr Luthman and Dr Jersild by invitation of Prof Ludvigsson, Professor at the Karolinska Institutet and pediatrician, at Örebro University Hospital, Sweden
11 September 2017
Kursus om døden i kulturel sammenhæng
Talk and discussion round for Danish family physicians for a course about death perception in cultural context, Danish Etnomedical Society
9 January 2017
DIGNITAS’ advisory work – Plan ahead and prepare – The Swiss model of assisted dying
How DIGNITAS safeguards the quality of life through comprehensive and open-outcome counselling
Speech and discussion at the ETH Sustainability Summer School 2014 on Future Health: Technology and innovation
14 November 2013
In Scotland, parliament member Margo MacDonald presented a revised proposal for an „Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bil", to make it lawful, in certain circumstances, to assist another to commit suicide; and for connected purposes.
