‘The Right To Be Protected From Suicide’ (Professor Jonathan Herring) - Video

On Saturday 10 September 2022 (World Suicide Prevention Day) the Anscombe Bioethics Centre hosted a Conference at Blackfriars in Oxford on ‘Suicide Prevention and Assisted Suicide: Legal, Clinical and Ethical Perspectives’.

The Conference covered the right to be prevented from committing suicide, the challenge of suicide prevention among people eligible for “medical aid in dying” and the impact of legalising assisted suicide on suicide rates.

In this talk, Professor Jonathan Herring (Professor of Law, Oxford University) sets out his academic research and analysis as to the right to be protected from committing suicide, interrogating and problematising the argument for assisted suicide and euthanasia from ‘autonomy’ and ‘choice’. Professor Herring’s book on the subject may be read here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/right-to-be-protected-from-committing-suicide-9781509949045/

The entire set of talks in the Conference can now be viewed on YouTube via our playlist here: https://bit.ly/SuPrASConf