By Rebecca Czekalski Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Medical errors are deadly errors. This is something that is ingrained in the consciousness of American nurses, and with good reason. Medical errors in […]
In America, and indeed worldwide, death is an abstract that lingers at the periphery of waking life until its reality comes crashing down. Though many of us see depictions of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Applied Sentience 