In the face of the high cost of palliative care, the economic benefits of legalizing euthanasia are enticing to some Australians.
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Jerry Coyne, a professor in the department of ecology and human evolution at the University of Chicago, recently posted a defense of killing disabled infants on his Why Evolution Is True blog. This reasoning makes sense only in a “throwaway culture,” which presumes that it’s right to discard the weakest and most vulnerable simply because they don’t meet an arbitrarily imposed marker of when life is worth saving.
Continue Reading → University of Chicago Professor: Infanticide Is Morally Acceptable
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A year ago, Canada legalised medically assisted suicide for terminally ill people approaching death. But one man's activism has forced Canada to ask difficult and controversial questions about the limits on an individual's right to die.
Continue Reading → Adam Maier-Clayton’s controversial right-to-die campaign
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People who find no value in their lives should be allowed the choice to end them. Right? Wrong, says Dr John Fox – and here’s why.
Continue Reading → Assisted dying devalues the disabled: At first look, it all seems so sensible
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This morning I was reading The Art of Death by Edwidge Danticat. In it she recounts how her own mother refused all pain medication as she was dying of ovarian cancer because she didn’t want to be “gaga” at the end. That reminded me of this post I’d been meaning to write for a while. I hope it might one day save you or a loved one a great deal of unnecessary suffering.
Continue Reading → On pain and palliative care
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