Category: Assisted Suicide
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Euthanasia: Taking Life and Death Seriously
12 March 2024. “Euthanasia and assisted suicide became a hot topic in Hungary, after a young human rights lawyer, who was diagnosed with ALS disease, filed a petition at the European Court of Human Rights in order to change the relevant Hungarian legal regulation. Our guest speakers will discuss the most pressing moral, philosophical, medical,…
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Autonomy’s Suicide
10 February 2024. Campaigners to legalise assisted suicide invoke the principle of arbitrary autonomy. This threatens to give us a libertarian society at the expense of a humane one. “There should be a booth on every corner where you could get a martini and a medal.” No doubt the novelist Martin Amis was exaggerating for…
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On the Faith of Feet: Nigel Biggar Discusses Christianity, Empire, Evil, and Reasons for Optimism
4 May 2023. Nigel joins Robert Aitken at The New Humanum. ‘Nigel Biggar is Emeritus Professor of Moral & Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, and Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics & Public Life. He studies the contribution of religion to the health of liberal societies; moral questions about killing (especially…
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An Exchange on Assisted Suicide
Following a recent decision by the High Court rejecting a challenge by Noel Conway to change the law on assisted suicide (a decision influenced by Parliament’s rejection of a bill on assisted suicide in June 2015), The Times has published an exchange of letters on the nature and ethics of assisted suicide: Prof Nigel Biggar’s letter of April 1 elicited a response from…
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Death by Degrees
Following the Second Reading of Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill in the House of Lords last month, Prof. Nigel Biggar has contributed to a recent exchange of letters on physician-assisted suicide in today’s edition of the London Times.