By Lisa Blumberg Lisa Blumberg The traditional strategy of groups promoting assisted suicide for initially passing a law legalizing the practice is by touting a few minimal requirements as inviolable safeguards. Assisted suicide, they assert, will be a rarely used option for a small, well-vetted cohort of people who are dying, suffering and with […]
(My apologies to people who subscribe to this blog via email. You’ll get this info after the fact.) Tonight (March 16) Global News is doing a ‘live blog’ promoting the killing of children with disabilities. The Canadian news network is calling it a ‘discussion,’ but they’re misleading people. They have a three-person panel. The first […]
As a left-handed tribute to “bioethicist and medical historian” Jacob M. Appel, I have titled this blog entry as a question, leading uninformed readers to think maybe I will seriously analyze an issue with two or more sides. In fact, as readers of this blog know, I have a definite viewpoint and people come to […]
Turns out the story ABC was doing on Warnock did run – and included part of Art Caplan’s remarks: When Dr. Jonathan Groner, a surgeon and ethicist at Ohio State University, heard of a suggestion by a well-known British philosopher that those with dementia have a “duty to die” in order to minimize the burden […]
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” […]
This latest confirms my impression that transhumanists have an overrepresentation of bottom-feeders and generally sleazy characters. The latest blog posting of George Dvorsky brings even his performance to a new low. Before I get into the latest post of his, a little history is in order. Dvorsky was the source of the quote about “Ashley […]
