Leading LSE professor questions moral basis for euthanasia laws

January 7, 2009

Emily Jackson, a leading LSE Law professor, discusses the meaning of death and the moral and legal questions raised by euthanasia in the first of The Independent’s new series of short films.

Speaking of the many Britons who have helped relatives travel abroad in order to participate in legal euthanasia, she claims “people who help their relatives by taking them to Switzerland know that they could be committing an offence which would see them go to prison for 14 years.” (The Independent)