Continue Reading → Annual report from the Commission on end-of-life care
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Living With Dignity Newsletter
Vol. 23
A journalist once asked me what I thought would be the major issues for ethics in the future. I responded, spontaneously, with three words: “complexity; uncertainty; potentiality”. My statement surprised me, as I had no idea where it came from or even what it might mean in relation to ethical analysis. Since then, I’ve pondered the latter.
Continue Reading → Complexity, uncertainty and potentiality in the euthanasia debate:
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Assisted suicide laws are universally flawed because they fail to account for the fact that terminal illness diagnoses are sometimes a mistake.
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Right to die, euthanasia, dying with dignity, assisted suicide: the language around this debate is enormously loaded, and shapes the way we feel about it.
Continue Reading → Language as a battlefield: How we got from euthanasia to voluntary assisted dying
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