Although there has been much debate about the immorality or moral permissibility of
physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia separately, there is little discussion …

Jason Scott Robert and Françoise Baylis (2003) focus on the moral issues raised by the
contemporary research, both active and proposed, in which “novel interspecies beings” are …

Despite a variety of “non-ecumenical” features in Christian arguments about suicide,
assisted suicide, and euthanasia, there are obvious “ecumenical” aspects to be found in the …

Consider what I take to be a mystery. Life presents all of us with many miseries, sick or well.
Why is it then that so few people choose to end their own lives in response to them? Why is it …

This chapter distinguishes minimal notions of justice and mercy from the richer notions
available to story-formed communities, and suggests reasons to be suspicious of the …

Euthanasia is presented by its advocates as the panacea for all pain and suffering. The
terminally ill who struggle with multiple symptoms of their illness were assured of relief, but …

Several Dutch politicians have recently argued that medical voluntary euthanasia laws
should be extended to include healthy elderly citizens who suffer from non-medical …

The public debate about active euthanasia (AE) and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in
many Western countries, and particularly the pressures by various groups for legalization of …

One major argument against prohibiting euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is
that there is no rational basis for distinguishing between killing and allowing to die: if we …

Epicurus wrote that death cannot be bad for a person who dies, since when someone dies
they no longer exist to be the subject of harm. But his conclusion also applies in the …