Emily In Conversation with Katie Englehart

10/19/21 • 49 min

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Do no harm. Thou shalt not kill. Life is sacred and should be protected at all costs, right? But when is life no longer worth living? Who decides? And what do we do about it?

In this episode, Emily discusses the murky ethical dilemmas of medical aid in dying with award-winning journalist Katie Englehart, the author of The Inevitable: Dispatches On The Right to Die.

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Do no harm. Thou shalt not kill. Life is sacred and should be protected at all costs, right? But when is life no longer worth living? Who decides? And what do we do about it?

In this episode, Emily discusses the murky ethical dilemmas of medical aid in dying with award-winning journalist Katie Englehart, the author of The Inevitable: Dispatches On The Right to Die.

More at thenocturnists.com.

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