Category: death

03Sep 2023 by Post

Medical Authoritarianism Continues to Expand

Alfie Evans, authoritarianism, bioethics, brain, Canada, Charlie Gard, Culture & Ethics, death, doctor, experts, freedom, haemodialysis, health-care rationing, hospital, Medicine, mind, North America, patient, soft authoritarianism, technocracy, Texas, Tinslee Adams, United Kingdom, ventilation

We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy. Source

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24Mar 2023 by Post

Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

assisted suicide, barbiturates, controlled substances, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, DEA, death, Death with Dignity, doctor shopping, doctors, euthanasia, house calls, lethal injection, Medicine, morphine, nurse practitioners, opiates, pandemic, patients, science, suicide, telehealth, telemedicine, terminal illness

What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions. Source

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27Jan 2023 by Post

Dear Transhumanists: Do You Really Want to Live Forever?

Altos Labs, Andrew Steele, antibiotics, Auguste Meyrat, Culture & Ethics, death, disabilities, disease, From Here to Eternity, Futurism, immortality, injury, Jeff Bezos, longevity, Maggie Harrison, Medicine, pagans, Palo Alto, Randall Smith, science, Technology, transcendence, transhumanists

A life of meaning is what we truly need, and perhaps what we most deeply desire. Source

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21Jan 2023 by Post

Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

Adam Frank, Bernardo Kastrup, Big Think, Bruce Greyson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Closer to Truth, consciousness, David Chalmers, death, hard problem of consciousness, life after death, moral choice, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Neuroscience News, npr, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, reason, science, Scientific American, Sean M. Carroll, Standard Model

In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death Source

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11Dec 2022 by Post

Bioethics: In Canada, Medically Assisted Death Is a Solution for Poverty

abandonment, assisted suicide, Canada, COVID-19, Daily Mail, death, Death with Dignity, doctor, homelessness, Les Landry, lethal injection, lockdown, MAiD, media, medical assistance in dying, Medicine, nursing home, poverty, PTSD, science

In the U.S., too, many assisted suicides are facilitated by doctors who have not treated the patient. Source

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23Nov 2022 by Post

“Poor Design”? Actually, the Human Body Is Amazing; Here’s Why

architecture, bicycling, biology, blood, Chemistry, colors, darkness, death, ears, Engineering, equilibrium, Evolution, eyes, heart, human body, information, Intelligent Design, internal temperature, James Dobson, life, light, lungs, Medicine, oxygen, photons, physicians, physics, piano, reproduction, Richard Dawkins, running, Steve Laufmann, swimming, systems, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, triathlon, Walt Whitman

If someone suggests that a coherent, interdependent system of systems arose by chance, they’ll need to back that up with a detailed engineering analysis. Source

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08Nov 2022 by Post

Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?

brain activity, consciousness, CPR, death, Evolution, faith, Faith & Science, Grossman School of Medicine, heart, life after death, materialism, Medicine, memory retrieval, natural selection, near-death experiences, neonatal intensive care, New York University, perception, physicians, Sam Parnia, theology, thinking

Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit. Source

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30Sep 2022 by Post

Are Transplant Doctors Causing Brain Death?

American College of Physicians, Amy Fiedler, Arizona, bioethics, brain death, cardiac arrest, death, doctors, heart, heart death, heartbeat, irreversibility, Jahi McMath, Medicine, MedPage Today, Nebraska, new york, normothermic regional perfusion with controlled donation after circulatory death, NRP-cDCD, organ farms, organ-transplant surgery, science, University of California San Francisco

A new and highly problematic means of obtaining organs is pushing the boundaries of the “dead donor rule." Source

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25Aug 2022 by Post

Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia

Canada, compassion, crime, Culture & Ethics, Daily Mail, death, dignity, EuroNews, euthanasia, guidelines, killing, MAiD, Medicine, organ harvesting, organs, patients, PTSD, Punishment, social worker, Spain, Suffering, Tarragona, Terrassa, veterans

In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia. Source

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30Apr 2022 by Post

Now It’s Assisted Suicide by Zoom Meeting

access, assisted suicide, Culture & Ethics, death, ethics, medication, Medicine, obstacles, patients, physician, poison, protections, Skype, suicide, telemedicine, Vermont, Zoom

Remember when we were told that assisted suicide would only be engaged in as part of an intimate and long-term physician/patient relationship? Source

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