Richard Smith: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Co-chair, Lancet Commission on the Value of Death
- Quoted on
- Assisted dying
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
“Neither increased access to palliative care nor legislation for assisted dying will fix our broken relationship with death. Death takes place in complex social systems and we need to understand, debate and change those systems to rebalance our relationship with death.”
Where Richard Smith has been quoted
- Parliament must heed public opinion on assisted dying | Letterstheguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
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