March 31, 2023
(UPI) – Suicides and substance abuse with illicit drugs have sent overdose mortality among people 65 years old and above skyrocketing — quadrupling over the past two decades, according to researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles. The … Read More
March 30, 2023
(New York Times) – Ms. Bluestein, who was diagnosed with late-stage fallopian tube cancer, said that if chemotherapy stopped working, she intended to make use of a Vermont law that allows certain people to seek and self-administer a lethal dose … Read More
March 30, 2023
Bioethics (vol. 37, no. 2, 2023) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Access to effective but expensive Treatments: An Analysis of the Solidarity Argument in Discussions on Funding of Medical Treatments” by Sietske A. L. van Till, Jilles … Read More
March 14, 2023
(ABC News) – Lynda Bluestein has terminal cancer and knows she’ll likely die soon, but until Tuesday, she didn’t know if she’d be able to choose how or when and whether her family, friends and dog would be with her … Read More
March 1, 2023
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 18, no. 2, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Exploitation, Criminalization, and Pecuniary Trade in the Organs of Living People” by Hugh V. McLachlan “Constitution of “The Already Dying”: The Emergence of … Read More
February 13, 2023
(New York Times) – Dr. Narita, 37, said that his statements had been “taken out of context,” and that he was mainly addressing a growing effort to push the most senior people out of leadership positions in business and politics — … Read More
February 7, 2023
(Harper’s Magazine) – Let’s suppose—the idea isn’t so absurd—that I’m able, by way of connections or skill at navigating the dark web, to get my hands on some pentobarbital, an apparently painless, lethal poison. Then suppose that a friend for … Read More
February 6, 2023
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 47, no. 5, 2022) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “‘Accompanied Only by My Thoughts’: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life” by Anna Magdalena Elsner and Vanessa … Read More
January 30, 2023
(Bioethics) – Five countries now permit organ donation after euthanasia, on the basis of respecting donor autonomy. Some now openly consider performing euthanasia itself via organ extraction to better preserve organ viability, albeit in violation of the dead donor rule. … Read More
January 19, 2023
(CTV News) – A growing number of patients who request medical assistance in dying are asking to donate their organs for transplant, says an international review that found that Canada is performing the most organ transplants from MAID patients among … Read More
