UK dementia expert backs assisted suicide
The UK should legalise assisted suicide according to a leading government adviser on dementia and care for the elderly. Martin Green, the chief executive of...
Ezechiel Emanuel moves to University of Pennsylvania
A bioethicist working in the White House who took much of the heat over “Obamacare death panels”, Ezechiel Emanuel, is moving to the University of...
Bulgarian parliament spurns euthanasia
The Bulgarian Parliament has rejected a euthanasia bill by a vote of 59 to 13, with 29 abstentions.The Bulgarian Parliament has rejected a euthanasia bill...
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Hollywood tackles bird flu
Interested in the bioethics of pandemics? Triage? Duty of care? Quarantine? Informed consent? Resource allocation? Contagion, the latest epidemic disaster movie, might be a good...
In praise of H.G. Wells’s Eloi
I stumbled across a provocative article in MIT’s Technology Review the other day – even though it dates back to 1967. Nobel Prize laureate Joshua...
Removing the ethics from bioethics
The New York Times philosophy blog likes edgy topics like does truth matter, isn’t it all relative, and can we have morals without God? The...
Celebrity lawyer discovers new species of mercy killing
The celebrity criminal lawyer who defended Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Jim Bakker, Claus von Bülow and O.J. Simpson has come up with a novel mercy...
English coroners turn blind eye to assisted suicide, says report
Coroners are ignoring evidence of assisted suicide, claims an unofficial report on the link between chronic and terminal illness and suicide. “The Truth about Suicide”,...
New website gives info on US euthanasia initiatives
A new website opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia brings together useful information about the status the law in the various American states. “Choice is...
Who is watching the IRB watchdogs, asks Nature
A stinging editorial in Nature claims that for-profit institutional review boards need careful supervision to ensure that they are following protocols and protecting patients.A stinging...
Furore in Netherlands over refusal to conduct euthanasia funeral
But what happens when a religion does not accept euthanasia? This is being debated in the Netherlands after a Catholic priest in the small town...