Baroness Ilora Finlay

President of the British Medical Association

Member of the House of Lords

Baroness Ilora Finlay, a leading palliative care physician, is president of the British Medical Association (2014–15), president of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, and a past president of the Royal Society of Medicine. She has led palliative care strategy implementation in Wales since 2008 and chaired the Welsh Medical and Dental Academic Advisory Board since 2012. Finlay was a general practitioner in inner-city Glasgow before returning to Cardiff to work full-time in the care of the terminally ill. She works at the Velindre Cancer Center, covering SE Wales when clinically on call. Finlay started the Marie Curie Hospice in Wales and, since 2008, has had responsibility on behalf of the Welsh Government for strategic oversight of all hospice and palliative care services in Wales. Since 2001, Finlay has been an independent crossbench peer in the House of Lords.

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Legalize Assisted Suicide

With Baroness Ilora Finlay, Peter Singer, Andrew Solomon, Daniel Sulmasy

November 13, 2014

In 1994, Oregon voters passed the Death with Dignity Act, which legalized physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Since then, it has become legal in 4 more states, including New Mexico, where the state court ruling that it is constitutional is under appeal. Is it, in the words of the American Medical Association’s code of ethics, “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer”? Will these laws lead to a slippery slope, where the vulnerable are pressured to choose death…

Legalize Assisted Suicide

With Baroness Ilora Finlay, Peter Singer, Andrew Solomon, Daniel Sulmasy

November 13, 2014

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