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24Oct 2025 by Post

For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

Alzheimer’s disease, bioethics, blood pressure, C. Everett Koop, cognitive impairment, death, delay, dementia, drug interactions, Ebola, euthanasia, grandchildren, grandmother, health conditions, Medicine, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, old-age home, prevention, Quebec, Resolve to Save Lives, Science Alert, Tessa Koumoundouros, The Formula for Better Health, Tibi Puiu, Tom Frieden, urinary tract infection, vitamin B12, Wall Street Journal, ZME Science, __featured3

I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so. Source

21Sep 2025 by Post

Will We Care For or Kill Dementia Patients?

advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, antibiotics, bioethics, burden, dementia, dementia patients, doula, hospice, killing, Medicine, nursing, palliative care, patients, Suffering, suicide, Thaddeus Mason Pope

I understand that people are terrified of dementia. Believe me, I get it. My mother died of Alzheimer’s. But I can’t wrap my head around the fact that advocacy for killing/suicide as the answer to the difficulties caused by the condition is becoming ubiquitous. Noted bioethicist and lawyer Thaddeus Mason Pope has written an essay, to be published in an edited volume, on this very issue. It lists eleven ways people can “avoid late-stage dementia,” and almost all involve intentionally ending life. Remember when we were told that advance medical directives are the key to not receiving life-extending treatment one does not want? They are, but that’s not good enough for Pope, because it doesn’t guarantee death: This strategy is Read More › Source

21Nov 2024 by Post

Do We Need Language to Think?

arithmetic, brain damage, Carl Zimmer, dementia, Evelina Fedorenko, human brain, Human Origins, language, Neuroscience & Mind, Noam Chomsky, Plato, speech, stroke

For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself. Source

03May 2024 by Post

Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan: Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent

death, dementia, Faith & Science, grief, human being, Intelligent Design, interviews, Joe Rogan, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, metaphysics, philosophers, Physics, Earth & Space, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, spirit, Stephen Meyer, subjective experience, The Joe Rogan Experience, Tucker Carlson, YouTube videos

Meyer discusses the recent loss of his mother to dementia. Talking about grief leads to a powerful point, that may be unfamiliar to many viewers. Source

05Apr 2024 by Post

Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

assisted dying, assisted suicide, Culture & Ethics, dementia, dependency, disabilities, duty to die, Economics, euthanasia, illnesses, immigration, infirmity, logic, Matthew Parris, Medicine, morality, old age, policy, Times of London

Come on, Granny! Time to swallow the pills. We need your money to send Junior to college. Source

21Mar 2024 by Post

A Philosopher Investigates Near-Death Experiences

atheists, brain, Bruce Greyson, cancel culture, cardiac patients, death, dementia, dissertation, dying, Gary Habermas, imminent death, Kristle Merzlock, Mark Shelvock, medical interventions, Medicine, Minding the Brain, Monika Mandoki, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophers, Psychology Today, Research, terminal lucidity, University of Western Ontario

Monika Mandoki did not experience efforts to get her canceled. That may be for several reasons. Source

08Feb 2024 by Post

Self-Starvation to Qualify for Assisted Suicide

abuse, assisted suicide, Culture & Ethics, dehydration, dementia, disabilities, doctors, elderly, euthanasia, illness, Laws, McKnights, medical aid in dying, Medicine, mentally ill, public policy, self-starvation, Thaddeus Mason Pope, VSED

Once again, the assisted-suicide movement shows itself to be public-policy promise breakers of the most egregious kind and raw zealots for the death agenda. Source

01Aug 2023 by Post