Posts Tagged ‘brain death’
Give Terry Pratchett the Freedom to Die…
11, Feb 2010Sir Terry Pratchett Calls for Euthanasia Tribunals Maev Kennedy, The Guardian (February 02, 2010) Terry Pratchett: My Case for a Euthanasia Tribunal Terry Pratchett, The Guardian (February 02, 2010) Last week, the British writer Sir Terry Pratchett (he of Discworld fame) catapulted the ongoing UK discussion on Assisted Dying back into the news. This is [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics|Suicide
- Tags: assisted dying, bioethics, brain death, definition of death
Radiolab: After Life… Now with John Troyer!
28, Jul 2009Radiolab: After Life originally aired July 27, 2009. What happens at the moment when we slip from life… to the other side? Is it a moment? If it is a moment, when is that moment? And what happens afterward? It’s a show of questions that don’t have easy answers. So, in a slight departure from [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Afterlife
- Tags: brain death, cardiac death, definition of death, moment of death, podcast
Re-thinking the Definition of Death in Canada
18, Jul 2009Ethicist Seeks Law to Say When Dead Is Truly Dead Tom Blackwell, National Post (July 16, 2009) How and when an individual is determined to be dead is a persistent bio-ethical, medical, and philosophical debate. I came across this article on the debate in Canada and I think that it highlights a common set of [...]