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The case for assisted suicide can seem so compelling. Surely it can't be wrong to help desperate people to kill themselves? Don't we have a right to take our own lives in certain circumstances?
There are no trite or easy answers. John Wyatt helps us to navigate the arguments with hearts and heads engaged, and above all with our Bibles open. There are practical and compassionate alternatives to assisted suicide, and as many who have gone before us have found, the end of our lives on this earth may turn out to be a strange and wonderful opportunity for growth and internal healing.
John Wyatt
John Wyatt is professor emeritus of ethics and perinatology at University College London and senior associate at The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge. His books include Matters of Life and Death, Right to Die?, and Dying Well. He was co-leader of a Templeton Foundation-funded research project into the social, ethical, and theological implications of advances in artificial intelligence and robotics based at the Faraday Institute.
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