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Jul 2014
21m 58s

Should euthanasia be legal?

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Dr Dominic Wilkinson, Director of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, explores the ethical issues surrounding euthanasia and asks whether it should be made legal. 
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