POSTPONED: Mason Institute Keynote Seminar: The Assisted Dying Debate in Sweden from a European Perspective
Location:
MacLaren Stuart Room,
Old College
Date/time
Tue 8 October 2024
13:00-14:00
About the event
Although assisted dying is one of the oldest issues in medical ethics, it has renewed relevance due to the fundamentally positive trend of being able to cure and alleviate more and more medical conditions and living longer lives than previous generations. One downside of our longer lives is that our dying has also become more protracted. People's decisions and trade-offs are the very origin of ethics, and death and dying are thus becoming more and more ethically complicated. Many believe today that it is therefore that we think about and discuss how we want to die, and what kind of death we can envisage to prepare for others. In this presentation I will discuss the issue of regulating assisted dying in the light of the discussions going on in Sweden and to some extent in some other countries.
About the speaker
Titti Mattsson is Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden. Her expertise lies in health law, social welfare law, child law and elder law, and she has interdisciplinary and comparative research collaborations with researchers in law, social work and medical ethics, nationally and internationally. She is editor of the European Journal of Health Law. She also holds appointments as a Member of the Swedish Institute of Human Rights, Board Member of the Swedish National Agency for Health and Care Analysis and an Expert Member of the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics. She also established Lund University’s Health Law Research Centre , which publishes a blog on current issues in health law.
This event is hybrid.