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Assisted Lab @AssistedLab
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Assisted Lab @AssistedLab
20 Jan 2025
No longer active on X, please follow us @assistedlab.bsky.social Keeping this open as a legacy account
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We are hiring - please share widely! We invite applications for a fully funded PhD position in legal & medical humanities as part of the ERC/SERI Assisted Lab team at University of St. Gallen, in Sept 2025 #Stories #Law #Medicine More information👇 jobs.unisg.ch/offene-stellen…
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In the trailer for this short film, the entry for which was written and researched by @JoeCSMH, three adult siblings debate whether you can “commit euthanasia” and ask their mother why she’s decided she wants to live. youtube.com/watch?v=I0pWQTA4…

Assisted Lab @AssistedLab
10 Dec 2024
In the short satirical film ‘The Mother Situation,’ three adult siblings gather for their mother’s planned #assisteddeath only to discover she has changed her mind, and that they will consequently not be receiving their inheritance as promptly as expected. assistedlab.ch/visual/the-mo…
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In the short satirical film ‘The Mother Situation,’ three adult siblings gather for their mother’s planned #assisteddeath only to discover she has changed her mind, and that they will consequently not be receiving their inheritance as promptly as expected. assistedlab.ch/visual/the-mo…

Assisted Lab's Living Archive of Assisted Dying – 'The Mother Situation' by Matt Day

Assisted Lab is a research group based at University of St Gallen, Switzerland, with research affiliates in Canada, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands, which investigates the cultural productions...

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@NikkiGemmell's memoir ‘After,’ recounts her complicated relationship with her mother who took her own life due to chronic pain. This high-profile story featured prominently in Australian conversations about legalization in 2017. assistedlab.ch/textual/after…

Assisted Lab's Living Archive of Assisted Dying – 'After' by Nikki Gemmell

Assisted Lab is a research group based at University of St Gallen, Switzerland, with research affiliates in Canada, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands, which investigates the cultural productions...

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"If this were just a book about the treacherous and tender currents that run between mothers and daughters, it would be enough. Instead, After also explores euthanasia [...] and the increasing problem of elder opioid abuse." theguardian.com/books/2017/a…

Nikki Gemmell tells of the turmoil of losing her mother to suicide

The Australian author’s new memoir, After, explores her mother’s death, which forced her to confront the issue of euthanasia

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"If this were just a book about the treacherous and tender currents that run between mothers and daughters, it would be enough. Instead, After also explores euthanasia [...] and the increasing problem of elder opioid abuse." theguardian.com/books/2017/a…

Nikki Gemmell tells of the turmoil of losing her mother to suicide

The Australian author’s new memoir, After, explores her mother’s death, which forced her to confront the issue of euthanasia

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5 Dec 2024
@NikkiGemmell's memoir ‘After,’ recounts her complicated relationship with her mother who took her own life due to chronic pain. This high-profile story featured prominently in Australian conversations about legalization in 2017. assistedlab.ch/textual/after…
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Researched and written by @JoeCSMH
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In advocating for her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, British MP Kim Leadbeater emphasized how the deaths of terminally ill loved ones can affect families. Similar arguments, however, have been made on the other side of the assisted dying debate. bbc.com/news/articles/cwyx43…

Focus on families, says MP behind assisted dying bill

Kim Leadbeater says the vote on her assisted dying bill on Friday is likely to be "very close".

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The decision, or wish, for an assisted death is a deeply personal one, as likely to evoke support as grief from one's family members. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be featuring archive entries which explore a wide range family members’ responses to #assisteddeath.
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See ⬇️ for a classic example of how cultural productions are used in assisted dying law making processes.
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“This, as Brooker writes, is what it is to be with someone as they are dying, to feel the prospect of their end crashing into the brutal fact that your empathy has its limits because you will continue to live.” theguardian.com/books/2024/f…

Intervals by Marianne Brooker review – a daughter’s angry and profound memorial to her mother

The author’s singular account of her parent’s illness and decision to hasten her death is written with remarkable clarity and precision

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19 Nov 2024
@AnnieBrooker_’s mother decided to end her life by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, a legal approximation of #assisteddying in the UK. Brooker's book 'Intervals' insists that UK debates about #assisteddying must consider broader social issues. assistedlab.ch/textual/inter…
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@AnnieBrooker_’s mother decided to end her life by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, a legal approximation of #assisteddying in the UK. Brooker's book 'Intervals' insists that UK debates about #assisteddying must consider broader social issues. assistedlab.ch/textual/inter…

Assisted Lab's Living Archive of Assisted Dying – 'Intervals' by Marianne Brooker

Assisted Lab is a research group based at University of St Gallen, Switzerland, with research affiliates in Canada, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands, which investigates the cultural productions...

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12 Nov 2024
‘I was denied being with her in her last moments’: campaigners on assisted dying bill theguardian.com/society/2024…

‘I was denied being with her in her last moments’: campaigners on assisted dying bill

As bill to allow terminally ill people in England and Wales to end their own lives enters parliament, supporters of the law change speak out

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12 Nov 2024
Under 1,000 patients a year may opt for assisted dying if bill passes, MP says theguardian.com/society/2024…

Under 1,000 patients a year may opt for assisted dying if bill passes, MP says

Kim Leadbeater outlines safeguards as some MPs worry proposal does not bar doctors in England and Wales from suggesting option

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“One worry I have is that Simon has a tendency for the big gesture. This may be the big gesture to end them all … I worry that he will feel locked into it even if he has second thoughts later.” theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…

How to Die: Simon’s Choice review – a beautiful film about the complex issue of assisted dying

This painstaking programme demands that you think, without forcing you to any pat conclusions – and is a tribute to an extraordinary set of people

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12 Nov 2024
UK resident Simon Binner travelled to Switzerland for an #assisteddeath. This documentary, made with @OpenUniversity, tells his story, examining different sides of the contemporary UK debate about assisted dying without picking one. assistedlab.ch/visual/how-to…
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UK resident Simon Binner travelled to Switzerland for an #assisteddeath. This documentary, made with @OpenUniversity, tells his story, examining different sides of the contemporary UK debate about assisted dying without picking one. assistedlab.ch/visual/how-to…

Assisted Lab's Living Archive of Assisted Dying – 'How To Die: Simon's Choice' by Rowan Deacon

Assisted Lab is a research group based at University of St Gallen, Switzerland, with research affiliates in Canada, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands, which investigates the cultural productions...

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Written and researched by @JoeCSMH
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While @kimleadbeater asserts her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill poses no threat to communities facing barriers, disability campaigners are less sure. See @thelizcarr’s @BBCnews documentary “Better Off Dead?” assistedlab.ch/visual/better…

Assisted Lab's Living Archive of Assisted Dying – 'Better Off Dead?' by Liz Carr and James Routh

Assisted Lab is a research group based at University of St Gallen, Switzerland, with research affiliates in Canada, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands, which investigates the cultural productions...

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Written and researched by Joe Wood
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