By attending a suicide party or ceremony, we validate the decision and, in so doing, become complicit in that death.
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If Italy accepts the bioethics’ commission’s advice, it will join a growing list of countries that are taking steps to end the practice.
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In most public emergencies, authorities attempt to stem the panic. But with COVID, it so often seemed that the panic was coming from the top. Why was that?
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This is a step forward, in terms of complexity, from Roland Arbaugh’s ability to control a cursor with his thoughts via an implant.
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The Washington Post has now edited an article to correct a key misstatement I criticized, without admitting it. Journalism dies in darkness.
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Shame on the states that passed laws allowing courts to deny custody to parents who won’t allow their children to be subjected to this medical experimentation.
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If we have “prior models of how things ought to be” at birth, aren’t we already conscious?
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27% of Canadians strongly or moderately agree that euthanasia is acceptable for suffering caused by “poverty” and 28% for suffering caused by homelessness.
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Confirmation of post-death consciousness during trauma might seem a little thing. But in science persistent little discrepancies are often the ones that matter.
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Dementia is not politically sensitive. But if the topic were, say, gender dysphoria, would honesty be likewise demanded? No wonder so many doubt science now.
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What many people are really craving isn’t “interesting” experiences but meaning. But sources of meaning like faith, family, community, country, have decayed.
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Execution by nitrogen inhalation is another example of what I call cruel and unusual death with dignity.
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Life after death: A gap is growing between “no way” and “impossible to disclaim.” That gap is probably going to get bigger rather than smaller.
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Organ harvesting as the means of euthanasia has already been proposed in a major bioethics journal.
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I would be surprised if anything came of it. Authorities rarely have the gumption to seriously punish suicide assistance unless in involves a teenager.
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Although the optimism is contagious, it is early days yet and many obstacles lie between proof of concept and practical usefulness.
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The longer the euthanasia movement is held at bay, the more likely that America can avoid becoming a culture of death like that in Canada.
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Split minds doesn’t make sense as a concept. To simultaneously pursue two abstract thought processes or moral choices is not a meaningful idea.
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While brain–computer interfaces might give us superhuman powers in science fiction, they will likely mainly compensate for lost human ones.
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China has denied the accusation repeatedly, but multiple international studies and exposés have substantiated the brutality with strong circumstantial evidence.
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