Not Alive Yet
“Not Dead Yet” is the name of a disability-rights organization that opposes legalizing assisted suicide. They contend, and I agree, that if assisted suicide is legal, then people who decide against...
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Against the Right to Die
In this chapter I argue that a widely recognized right to die would have the paradoxical effect of harming some people who never exercise it as well as some who exercise it and are better off for d...
Read ItA Right of Self-Termination?
Getting cancer changed my feelings about people who smoke. I remember hearing a fellow philosopher expound, with a wave of his cigarette, on his right to choose whether to live and die smoking, or...
Read ItBeyond Price
Kant argued that suicide is immoral when committed for the purpose of escaping from unhappiness. I have tried on one or two occasions to reconstruct Kant’s argument, by offering a particular interp...
Read ItFamily History
When I received my maternal grandfather’s birth certificate from the General Register Office in London, I found that the space for the mother’s signature had been completed in the same official han...
Read ItDying
Some people hope to die in their sleep. Not me. I don’t regret having been oblivious at my birth, but I don’t want to be napping at my death. My birth hasn’t figured much in my life, other than ha...
Read ItGene-Editing—Is the Quest to Alter a Patient’s Genome Ethical?
Gene-editing—the ability to alter a patient’s genome—aims to repair deleterious genes in order to improve patient outcomes. Recent biomedical and social science research, however, has exposed many ...
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