Professor Willem Landman on “medical assistance in dying as an ethical and constitutional imperative”

Professor Willem Landman is the co-founder of DignitySA and former CEO of The Ethics Institute (TEI). He will address the Cape Town Press Club on medical assistance in dying (MAiD) as an ethical and constitutional imperative.

Prof Landman has been involved in significant ethical and legal advocacy for decriminalising assisted dying in South Africa and ensuring dignity in end-of-life care. He is an ethics advisor to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

He holds degrees from the Universities of Stellenbosch, Oxford and UNISA in philosophy, political philosophy, theology and law. His academic career includes serving as Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Walter Sisulu University and the University of the Western Cape and as Professor of Medical Humanities at the Brody School of Medicine, University of North Carolina.

He will take questions.

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