Together with Thomas Kapitany (psychiatrist, head of the Crisis Intervention Center Vienna, suicide prevention), Maria Katharina Moser (director of the Protestant Diakonie) and Wolfram Proksch (lawyer and plaintiff pro euthanasia before the Constitutional Court), our scientific director, Michael Lysander Fremuth, discussed the topic of euthanasia in the Journal Panorama Wednesday round on Wed, 7 July.

How will the decision of the Constitutional Court that assisted suicide should no longer be punishable in Austria be received by the participants in the discussion? How should things proceed in Austria and under what conditions will passive euthanasia be permitted?You can listen to the discussion here  or in our mediathek.

We discussed this topic in our Human Rights Talk on Thu, 22 April 2021 with Franz-Joseph Huainigg (former member of the National Council and spokesperson for people with disabilities, Austrian People’s Party; contributor to “Humanitarian Broadcasting”, ORF), Susanne Kummer (Managing Director, Institute for Med. Anthropology and Bioethics (IMABE); Press Spokesperson, Opus Dei Austria), Herbert Watzke (Professor of Palliative Medicine, Medical University of Vienna; Vice-President, Austrian Palliative Society) and Wolfgang Obermüller (Spokesperson on Politics, Austrian Society for a Humane End of Life -ÖGHL).