我们有权利结束自己的生命吗?医生协助自杀和安乐死有什么区别?肯恩区分了被动安乐死和主动安乐死。协助自杀是谋杀吗?在什么情况下我们应该被允许帮助他人死亡，如果有的话?肯介绍这位客人，玛格丽特·巴廷，犹他大学的教授。为什么会有人反对死亡的权利?巴廷概述了三种对立的立场:蓄意杀人永远是错误的，医生协助下的自杀会破坏医疗职业，如果我们允许同情性杀人，那么它将允许群体逼迫他人死亡。我们能尊重生命，允许协助自杀吗?

Many ethical systems regard most forms of killing as wrong. What about avoiding unbearable pain? Kant thought that suicide for any reason was wrong. Battin thinks that it is different if you reflect before deciding to die. Kant's ethical views were formed before medicine advanced enough to keep patients alive for so long. Ken mentions the worry that insurance companies might not pay for treatment for terminally ill patients when assisted suicide is an option. Battin does not think that there is much economic incentive to let or to force patients to die instead of treating them. Does banning assisted suicide protect the value of human life?

Battin points out that assisted suicide is an international issue. It is legal in many European countries already. Is letting a person die more humane than killing that person if she or he is in extreme pain? Where do we draw the line for allowing assisted suicide? The Netherlands does not require terminal illness but it does require intolerable suffering on the part of the patient.

• Roving Philosophical Report(Seek to 04:50): Amy Standen interviews Gloria, a women who recently had to deal with her husband contracting a terminal illness.
  
• Conundrum(Seek to 48:30): Martina from Austin calls in to ask whether she should take a corporate job that pays well but that has goals she does not support.