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Assisted dying and euthanasia are important topics in KS4 and KS5, especially considering their relevance in current discussion and recent legalisation in many liberal countries. Most sixth-form students are fascinated by these topics and often come into the classroom with strong views. However, the ethical issues around assisted dying and euthanasia are often conflated and over-simplified, and they are presented as simple dichotomies: religious versus non-religious or autonomy versus paternalism. The reality is much more complicated. Viewing a range of arguments from nuanced thinkers on these topics can really help students to understand them in more depth and see how ethics can be mind-bending and apparently ‘progressive’ politics may not always be preserving rights.