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Advertising Death
Back in May Channel 4 caused widespread upset by screening the first abortion advertisement ever to be shown in the UK. This month an Australian TV company banned an advert which appeared to be...
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The Disease With a Human Face
From a guest blogger: Consider the following thought-experiment. A particularly sadistic person subjects another human being to horrible torture so severe that the victim’s sufferings are certain to...
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After Euthanasia: Will Our Heroes Still be Heroic?
From a guest blogger: The Glorious Dead? A sculpture inside the European Parliament in Brussels is said to represent the interconnectedness of all people. Life in particular is a myriad of...
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A ‘Perfect Storm’ for Euthanasia?
A report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) into the standard of patient care in hospitals and nursing homes has been dubbed by one commentator as a ‘perfect storm’ for euthanasia advocates, and...
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Assisted Suicide and the End of Love
From a Guest Blogger: Terry Pratchett’s recent documentary Choosing to Die is rightly controversial. When such a prolific writer as Pratchett, suffering from Alzheimer’s, makes a television programme...
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The Unacceptability of ‘Quality of Life’
The writer’s attention has recently been drawn to an address made by Cardinal Galen, Bishop of Munster between 1933 and 1946, on the topic of euthanasia. He was a trenchant critic of many Nazi...
View ArticlePhysician-Assisted Suicide is an Affront to Human Liberty
Liberty is a premise upon which physician-assisted suicide is routinely advanced. Some of those suffering from serious and incurable illness or distress seek to argue the case that their suffering is a...
View ArticleWhence a Right to Die? Whither may it Lead?
As a right to die becomes the subject of yet another House of Lords debate it may be worth revisiting a matter upon which this blog has commented before here and here. The writer has recently seen a...
View ArticleAssisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Guide to the Evidence
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre has recently published a collection of resources to help people better engage with debates in Britain relating to Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS), titled Assisted Suicide...
View ArticleEssence of the Matter
Our last TMI blog post ended by critiquing propaganda thinking, in which we assent ‘uncritically to widely held beliefs’, before offering a closing defence of discursive thinking, whereby ‘the...
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