Staying Human

Staying Human: 2025 Public Talks Series

We are pleased to promote this four part-series by Together for the common good. Staying Human, their series of public talks for 2025. This four-part series explores how we can stay human in the new era. Featuring Luke Bretherton, Jon Cruddas and Maurice Glasman, Susannah Black Roberts and Dan Hitchens, each talk will take place before an invited audience and will be simultaneously livestreamed. You are warmly invited to join us online. See below for booking, recordings and texts.

For information on the whole four-part series click here: Staying Human: Our 2025 Public Talks Series - Together For The Common Good

Staying Human: Useful lives?

Date: Friday 21 November 2025

Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Location: Online

Booking link coming soon.

Dan Hitchens will ask what the advance of assisted suicide really means. Dan will address the profound cultural shift signalled by current legislation, marking a transition from the era of Cecily Saunders and the hospice movement to a new age where death is presented as a solution to what some advocates refer to as ‘useless lives.’ Setting the contemporary debate in its historical context, Dan will prompt us to consider how we should respond to this hinge moment for British society.