Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 21 hours ago
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In Virginia, the Senate passed the Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) Act February 7, 2024, but two weeks later the House rejected it. This potential legislation represents a number of complex and embedded issues related to class, religion, race, and notions of justice. Often discussed in terms of a “good” death, MAID is held up as an ideal, but questions surround the practice: What is a good death? How does it happen? And for whom? MAID is often associated with older individuals who may choose this option in the face of a terminal illness. What happens, however, when we consider children who are terminally ill or people with disabilities? Who can act on another’s behalf especially in relation to assisted death? This issue of bodily autonomy touches on law, medicine, ethics, and faith. We will have the opportunity to listen to three perspectives on this issue and to think together about what it means in terms of medical ethics: autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.
Terri Laws, Associate Professor, African and African American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn Public
Thaddeus Mason Pope, Professor of Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law Fellow, The Hastings Center
Mara Buchbinder, Professor and Vice Chair of Social Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, and Core Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The broadcast will continue as scheduled today, but we do encourage you to join the Zoom at https://go.wlu.edu/MuddPanelZoom
In Virginia, the Senate passed the Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) Act February 7, 2024, but two weeks later the House rejected it. This potential legislation represents a number of complex and embedded issues related to class, religion, race, and notions of justice. Often discussed in terms of a “good” death, MAID is held up as an ideal, but questions surround the practice: What is a good death? How does it happen? And for whom? MAID is often associated with older individuals who may choose this option in the face of a terminal illness. What happens, however, when we consider children who are terminally ill or people with disabilities? Who can act on another’s behalf especially in relation to assisted death? This issue of bodily autonomy touches on law, medicine, ethics, and faith. We will have the opportunity to listen to three perspectives on this issue and to think together about what it means in terms of medical ethics: autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.
Terri Laws, Associate Professor, African and African American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn Public
Thaddeus Mason Pope, Professor of Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law Fellow, The Hastings Center
Mara Buchbinder, Professor and Vice Chair of Social Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, and Core Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
