Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Medical aid in dying comes up for a vote in England

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  The upcoming vote on legalizing medical aid in dying in England and Wales has attracted controversy along lines that will be familiar to r...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Leading Causes of Death in the US, 2019-2023.

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 Covid has dropped out of the top 10. Leading Causes of Death in the US, 2019-2023. by Farida B. Ahmad, MPH1; Jodi A. Cisewski, MPH1; Rober...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Main causes of death around the world, 1990-2021

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  Here's a recent article from the Lancet that traces leading causes of death around the world, in more than a thousand countries and su...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Dr. Guy Alexandre (1934-2024), gave birth to brain death in deceased organ transplantation

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  The father of brain death has died. Here's the NYT obit. Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89 . His willi...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Frozen embryos are children: Alabama Supreme Court ruling

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  The Washington Post has the story, which emphasizes the implications this ruling could have on in-vitro fertilization (IVF).  That would a...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Brain death for organ donation, and its relation to controversy about abortion

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 Here's a summary of the current discussion of brain death (and its possible connection to the debate on whether a fetus is a living per...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Medical aid in dying considered in Britain, and evolving in Canada

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The Guardian has the story about England and Wales, and the NYT has a story on Canada. Here's the Guardian: Two former health secretarie...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Peter Singer on brain death

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  Here's Peter Singer's op-ed in the Washington Post on the debate over brain death, presently used to decide when deceased donor or...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Fentanyl

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  The NY Times has the story: Some Key Facts About Fentanyl . It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics. ...
Sunday, October 8, 2023

Dead or alive? Debates about defining brain death and circulatory death in the medical literature

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Before the invention of ventilator technology, circulatory death ('cardiorespiratory death') and brain death ('neurological deat...
Monday, July 31, 2023

Altruistic kidney donors in Israel

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  The Forward has the story Why Israel has more altruistic kidney donors than any other country in the world  By Michele Chabin "Israel...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Defining death for deceased organ donation

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 Here’s a story from Science, about donation of a heart from a donor declared dead after circulatory death, ie after heart stoppage: GIVING ...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Medical aid in dying: access for children, and for mental illness

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Two recent articles discuss whether there should be categorical limits on medical aid in dying (MAID).  In the Netherlands, the law now perm...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Brain Death

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  Before there was the possibility of organ transplantation, determining that someone was dead could be a relatively leisurely affair. But t...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Canada experiments with decriminalization of opioids and other drugs in British Columbia

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 From the CBC: What you need to know about the decriminalization of possessing illicit drugs in B.C.  B.C. granted exemption by federal gove...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Medical assistance in dying: palliative care

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A lot of the discussion of medical assistance in dying has focused on assisted suicide, but there is also the question of trying to die well...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Texas inmate asks to delay execution for kidney donation

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 For all you practical ethicists out there, here's a story by the AP that has divided my email correspondents: Texas inmate asks to dela...
Saturday, April 9, 2022

"Execution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China," by Matthew P. Robertson, and Jacob Lavee in the AJT

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  Prior to 2015, it was legal in China to transplant organs recovered from executed prisoners. When I visited China in those days to talk ab...