On the Boundaries of Bioethics: Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Euthanasia
Prelude One February night, my father and I were waiting at a commuter train station in the suburb where he lived. We were waiting to pick up a friend coming […]
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The Ethics and Economics of the “Good Death”
Brittany Maynard and Death with Dignity Brittany Maynard, a 29 year old woman who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, has recently pushed the question of physician-assisted suicide back into […]
Ownership vs Stewardship: Beyond the Binary in the Assisted-Suicide Debate
I first became interested in the debates surrounding assisted suicide through watching my father battle cancer. His story is, sadly, unremarkable in the sense that like so many before him, […]
A Note on Dealing with Death & Dying, Trauma & Tragedy
At a recent workshop on ‘Trauma in Everyday Life,’ a psychologist spoke about big ‘T’ and little ‘t’ trauma. Big ‘T’ trauma is what we commonly refer to when speaking […]
Applied Sentience 