
About this episode
Ellen Wiebe is a physician who helps seriously ill patients end their lives in Canada, where assisted suicide is legal. Is death a human right?
- SOURCES:
- Ellen Wiebe, clinical professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia.
- RESOURCES:
- "The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions," by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2025).
- "Most Americans Favor Legal Euthanasia," by Rachael Yi (Gallup, 2024).
- Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers.
- "Medical Assistance in Dying: Overview," (Government of Canada).
- EXTRAS:
- "Can Robots Get a Grip?" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2025).
- "Remembering Daniel Kahneman," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
- "Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence?" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2021).
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (2011).
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