Art Caplan, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, dropped me a line to give me his reaction to Warnock’s comments about people with dementia. He gave these to a reporter at ABC but says they weren’t used in whatever coverage they ended up giving to Warnock: No one has a duty to … Continue reading Followup on Warnock – Art Caplan Strongly Disagrees With “Duty to Die”
Last week, Baroness Warnock, a well-known “ethicist” who has advised the British Government on health care policy for ages, shocked advocates for the elderly in the UK when she suggested that people with dementia should be assisted in killing themselves or even outright killed. She suggested that the lives of these people are a “waste” … Continue reading Bioethics Blog Defends Warnock’s Call for Killing of People with Dementia
Universal health coverage, like so many things those of us living below the median income line could use, is probably off the table now that we’ve got to figure out how to prevent total economic meltdown — in which we all get to pay for the bad behavior of rich people who operated in an … Continue reading Painfully True Humor from The Onion
Well, this had to happen sooner or later. A legal commission is the state of Kerala has recommended a pretty sweeping legalization of euthanasia: Kerala Law Reforms Commission has presented a proposal, which recommends that euthanasia or mercy killing should be made legal in the state. The proposal also suggests deletion of Section 309 of … Continue reading India: Kerala Commission Recommends Euthanasia Legalization
Over the weekend, the editorial board at the Oregonian published an editorial claiming that the fears of critics of Oregon’s assisted suicide law appear to be unfounded. Nevertheless, the editors of the Oregonian don’t endorse the Washington attempt to legalize assisted suicide. Confused? So, apparently, is the editorial board at the Oregonian: Ten years’ experience … Continue reading Confusing editorial from the Oregonian
