UBC experts are available to provide media commentary on the topics of physician-assisted suicide and “the right to die.”
(Note: this list will be updated as more experts confirm their availability, please visit here for updates.)
Prof. Peter Klein New
UBC Graduate School of Journalism
Tel. 604.822.5823; 604.822.6707
Email: peter.klein@ubc.ca
- Produced “Life & Death” – a video-journalism project about one man’s fight for the right to doctor-assisted suicide
- The right-to-die issue in the U.S.
Prof. Joel Bakan
UBC Faculty of Law
Tel: 604.822.5682
Email: bakan@law.ubc.ca
- Legal implications
Prof. Anita Ho
UBC W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
Tel: 604.817.4219
Email: anita.ho@ubc.ca
- Ethics and health care
- Different perspectives on legalizing assisted suicide, including those of physicians and disability groups
- Palliative care as an alternative to legalizing assisted suicide
Prof. Tim Stainton
UBC School of Social Work
Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship
Cell: 604.306.9125
Email: timothy.stainton@ubc.ca
- The issue from the perspective of people with disabilities
Prof. Scott Anderson
UBC Dept. of Philosophy
Cell: 778.235.4466 (unavailable between 2-3:30pm)
Email: scottand@interchange.ubc.ca
- Applied ethics, philosophy