How is assisted suicide actually carried out? Can there be safeguards that make legalised euthanasia safe enough to consider in New Zealand? Professor Ilora the Baroness Finlay is a professor of palliative medicine, and an independent member of the House of Lords. She sat on the 2005 British select committee that conducted a comprehensive examination of every jurisdiction that had legal assisted dying, and she shared her knowledge and experience with our audience at MIC 08.