The Hippocratic oath, a roughly 2,000-year-old text with only marginal relevance to medicine today, continues to have an outsize influence on us. The oath’s language and many of its concepts are more ...
One of Peter Singer's more popular views is that we ought to legalize physician-assisted suicide and, in some cases, active euthanasia of the terminally ill. Doing so, the argument goes, would allow ...
My first anti-euthanasia column (Newsweek, 1993) worried that once euthanasia became normalized, it would lead to conjoined organ harvesting “as a plum to society.” I was screamed at and labeled an ...
A woman holds up a sign during a rally against assisted suicide in 2016 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. (Credit: Art Babych/CNS.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Euthanasia is a violation of ...
"Times are changing" is the understatement of all understatements! It’s probably safe to say that this cliché is especially applicable to what we euphemistically call the American Medical System. I ...