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Interview

Peter Singer

The controversial Australian philosopher defends the right to choose to die on utilitarian grounds. Matt Qvortrup recently asked him about it.

The Northern Territory in Australia was the first place in the world to legalise euthanasia. It was in 1996. After a year, the federal government stepped in and banned the procedure. Now, thirty years on, all jurisdictions in Oz allow people to voluntarily die. Recently I made a short documentary about it, including interviews with the widow of the first person to die, and with the doctor who oversaw his death – his name was Nitschke.

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