Wouter Schrover, a lecturer at Open Universiteit, is an expert on the cultural and artistic depictions of assisted dying in the Netherlands. Assisted Lab has benefited from his multiple entries for our archive, research collaborations, and a wonderful presentation at one of our research meetings in which he summed up knowledge gained during our association and tried to pass it on.

Joe Wood, a research associate of Assisted Lab in 2024, presented his research on stories of assisted dying in Australia and New Zealand, and how they have and have not influenced law-making. Joe is the author of multiple entries for our archive as well as reflective pieces on our practice, and the holder of many different kinds of knowledge. Our collaboration will be much missed.

The Ethics of Suicide Digital Archive at University of Utah has long been an inspiration for Assisted Lab. We were therefore thrilled to welcome that archive’s editor and emeritus medical ethicist Peggy Battin to one of our research meetings. Peggy spoke to Assisted Lab about the Archive’s first, digital life and the process of giving it a second life by turning it into a book.

There are few researchers whose work is more relevant to Assisted Lab than cultural and media studies scholar Outi Hakola’s. We were therefore thrilled that Outi presented her new book Filming Death: End-of-Life Documentary Cinema at one of our research meetings. The discussion explored the multiple commonalities between our work, as well as new potential entries for our archive.