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Joe Wood

Joe is a freelance researcher focusing on how we talk about pain, grief and loss, particularly at the end of life. He has worked for British and Swiss universities, as well as with St Christopher's Hospice.

How different countries approach assisted dying

Dignity, autonomous choice, and the slippery slope
11 Mar 2026
A photo of a group of demonstrators, most of them wheelchair-users, protesting passionately while holding handmade placards which oppose an assisted dying bill.