Our lab publication reflects on the ways in which the language used to describe ‘assisted dying’ is itself a political choice with concrete implications. In short, language matters when thinking about assisted dying.

A recent push to legalize assisted dying in France obscures more fundamental problems that plague end-of-life care.

Interview with Anna Elsner as a French citizens’ council of 150 members of the public will meet Friday to begin discussions on end-of-life care, including whether assisted suicide should be legalised. As French laws have evolved over the last two decades, calls have increased to allow medically assisted deaths for terminally ill patients.