FIRST INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM FOR THE RIGHT TO A DIGNIFIED DEATH

Given this experience, he accepted the offer from the NVVE, Dutch Right to Die Organization, in 1999 to act as its Executive Director. Thanks to this assignment, he was able to contribute to the legalization of euthanasia; that is, the possibility that patients who ask their doctors for help to die can do so without being criminalized and that, in turn, doctors have a clear idea of the legal processes and paradigms.

As Executive Director of the NVVE, he has made several presentations around Europe and the world about the experience the Netherlands has had with euthanasia. After retiring from the NVVE in 2008, he worked for the WFRtDS, World Federation of Right to Die Societies, first as Communications Director, and now as its Executive Director. He is responsible for having developed and for updating the website and offers administrative support to the WF committee.

She was a 2007-2008 member of the Radcliffe Institute scholarship program, part of the same Institute for Advanced Studies at the Harvard University.
She has published more than 250 articles in the press, as well as in several specialized magazines. Her works have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation and Mother Jones among others.

Currently, her interest focuses on the development of society’s dialogue on controversial issues of ethics and politics. She frequently collaborates with ethicist Peter Singer in the organization of conferences that bring together academics who do not agree on fundamental issues, including abortion and organ transplantation. She is currently writing with Singer a book on population, The Last Taboo, which explores the importance of the population behavior dynamics in the reduction of poverty and climate change.