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Replace Psychiatrists with AI?

"A Belgian man, after weeks of dialogues with his chatbot 'confidante,' committed suicide after it encouraged him to sacrifice himself for climate change." Read More ›
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Medical Journal Has a Ghoulish Proposal: Conjoining Euthanasia with Organ Harvesting

This much is clear: We are far down the road of objectifying the bodies of suicidal people to permit unethical acts. Read More ›
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Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Read More ›
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NYT Pushes Suicide for the Mentally Ill

Clancy Martin’s first paragraph makes clear why his thesis should be rejected out of hand. Read More ›
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Photo: Palace of Justice of Brussels, by Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In Belgium, Subjectivity Triumphs Over Biology

The attitude will metastasize across society and culture, eventually corroding our most fundamental institutions and societal structures. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Canadian Lawmakers Support Euthanasia for Minors without Parental Consent

Canada, being our closest cultural cousin, exerts a substantial influence on our own country’s social policies. Read More ›
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Photo: Peas, by Bill Ebbesen, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›
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Suicide Tourism Comes to Oregon

Some jurisdictions are getting there faster and some slower. But that tide only flows in one direction. Read More ›
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Photo: <I>Namasengi mockeae</I>, mandible, Eocene, Namibia, from fig. 11 in Senut & Pickford 2021, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients

If the patient resists, the killing is not supposed to take place. Right. As though the person would know what was happening. Read More ›

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