Let’s increase organ transplant rates by encouraging euthanasia patients to donate, say doctors
Specialists call for red tape to be cut to allow simpler donation procedures. Since 2005 about 40 people in Belgium and the Netherlands have successfully...
Will Belgium grant euthanasia for unwanted sexual attraction?
A 39-year-old man has requested euthanasia because he fears that he may be a paedophile Along with unbearable physical pain, mental suffering, and dementia, a...
California doctor opens end-of-life clinic
As soon as assisted suicide became legal, Lonny Shavelson was in business California’s right-to-die law was rolled out this week and at least one doctor...
Unless we act quickly, humans will be house pets to robots, says Elon Musk
Extraordinary musings from Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elon Musk, billionaire co-founder of PayPal, and the boss of boss of Tesla and SpaceX, fears that Artificial Intelligence...
Victorian report recommends assisted suicide
Parliamentary committee in Australian state calls for legislation Victoria’s ‘Inquiry Into End of Life Choices’ has recommended the legalisation of assisted dying. The report is...
3-person babies may not be as close as media suggest
Nature article by UK scientists claims method is safe, but there are questions The headline in the BBC was “Three-person babies IVF technique ‘safe’”. This...
Vale Muhammed Ali
Ali defeated Sonny Liston in 1964 The death of Muhammed Ali at the age of 74 is reminder of the uneasy ethical status of...
A gorilla grabs your kid: should you shoot?
The smart money says No. That bioethicists regard the lives of animals as more important than infants or disabled humans is a common complaint amongst...
IVF expert complains about unjustifiable use of ICSI around the world
Derides it as "Santa Claus in the fertility clinic" The editor-in-chief of one of the world's leading reproductive medicine journals has attacked the rising use...
Dutch euthanasia guidelines now in English
A great resource for accurate critiques Here’s a very helpful resource in debating euthanasia: the code of practice for the regional euthanasia review committees in...
Should happy demented people be euthanized?
Yes, say German and Dutch bioethicists; they don't know their own mind One problem sector in regimes which have legalised euthanasia is demented people who...
Deliberately infecting healthy patients still happens—ethically
Human challenge studies speed up clinical trials The most famous clinical trial of all time was Edward Jenner’s experiment with a smallpox vaccine. He had...