CategoryEthics
Silicon Valley’s Trendy Ethic: Effective Altruism
How effective is it really? Does the underlying utilitarianism leave out some important things?
Death by Nitrogen: Cruel or Death with Dignity?
We are told that suicide by nitrogen in the suicide pod is peaceful and dignified.
Canada’s Residential Schools: A Saga of Journalistic Wrongdoing
Even as the story is collapsing for lack of evidence, there is a move afoot to criminalize doubt about what happened (denialism).
Medical Journal Pushes Conjoining Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting
Conjoining organ harvesting with euthanasia is now deemed so respectable it is even boosted at the highest levels of the medical establishment
The ‘Suicide Capsule’ Claims Its First Victim
A photographer was present to record the death — meaning to create images for suicide proselytizing
In Canada? Don’t Say You Don’t Feel Well…
In his new book, Historian Richard Weikart discussed the rampant and rapid growth of euthanasia in the Western world
Delaware Governor Vetoes Assisted Suicide Legalization
Both a Democrat and a Republican governor have vetoed the practice. Opposition to the practice is culturally and religiously diverse
Falun Gong Member Whose Organs Were Harvested Proves China’s Guilt
Prisoners like the Uyghurs or Falun Gong are valued for organ transplants on account of their clean living lifestyles, unlike common criminals
Who Speaks at Top Children’s Doctors’ Conference?
The keynote speaker at this year’s American Academy of Pediatrics meet are very far from where most parents might expect
Bioethicist Peter Singer Devalues Human Life, Supports Euthanasia
One of the big problems with Singer’s philosophy is that he never provides any reason why rationality, self-consciousness, and the ability to plan the future have any value
‘Nonmedical’ Assisted Suicide This Way Comes
Some assisted suicide advocates promote a model where no medical personnel need be involved
The ‘Gender-Industrial Complex’ Makes Billions Annually
A new report produced recently by the American Principles Project sheds light on financial incentives
Boosters of Assisted Suicide Want It To Be Much More Common
Activists want assisted suicide normalized well beyond the terminally ill so that we become euthanasia enthusiasts
Medical Journal Pushes Training for Doctors on How to Kill
Chillingly, most of the doctors who participated in a small study on assisted suicide, and who prescribe poison as part of their job, like it.
Blessed are the Peacemakers, for They Shall Be Called Bioethicists
War is too serious and consequential an issue for the raging dilettantism that the Hastings Center displays
When Deep Forgetfulness Was a Death Sentence…
Memory care specialist Stephen Post reminds us of that dark but recent era, in conversation with Michael Egnor
At Least 60 People with Eating Disorders Euthanized or Assisted in Suicide since 2012
Most had other mental illnesses. How might those mental disorders have affected these poor people’s ability to “choose” to be killed or kill themselves?
Heart attack doctor asks, is death now reversible?
If new findings in resuscitation techniques hold up, says Sam Parnia in his new book, brain conditions now deemed irreversible may be reversibleResuscitation specialist Sam Parnia, reflects in his new book, Lucid Dying (Hachette, August 6, 2024), on the recent discovery that brains can be resuscitated hours after death. From the sample pages offered at the book’s Amazon site, we learn that in 2019, a writer at prominent science journal Nature sent Parnia a copy of the embargoed results of a study of pig brains from a slaughterhouse, kept alive for hours after death. “I was left totally stunned and speechless” he recounts: For at least a decade, I had tried to draw attention to the fact that our concept of life and death should be redefined. Death should no longer be viewed as a specific black-and-white moment. Instead, it should be Read More ›
