Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Medical aid in dying (and Moral Economics) on Freakonomics Radio

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  The latest episode of Freakonomics looks at the controversies and philosophies involved in the growing legalization of medical aid in dyin...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Euthanasia and hospice care for pets

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Medical aid in dying and hospice care are now available for pets too.   The New Yorker has the story: When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet? ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

About a third of Americans live in states that will have Medical Aid in Dying, come September.

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  The NYT has the story: By September, Nearly a Third of Americans Will Live in States With Legal Aid in Dying Despite widespread support in...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

Moral Economics: video of the AEI book event (you can listen to me read from the book)

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 You can watch the AEI book event (and hear me read the first paragraph of the book, and chat about it for about 20 minutes) followed by dis...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

The Right to Choose to Die. Alvin Roth interviewed by Tim Phillips 1 May 2026 (VoxTalks Economics)

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 Disputes about medical aid in dying are as contentious in Britain as in the US. Here's some discussion on VoxTalks Economics, in connec...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Organ donation after euthanasia in the Netherlands

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In the Netherlands, not only is it legal to receive medical aid in dying (MAID), but  a growing number of MAID patients are able to successf...
Friday, December 26, 2025

Medical aid in dying to become available in New York State

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 Here's the announcements from the New York State Governor's office: Governor Hochul Reaches Agreement With State Legislature to Pas...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Ludwig Amadeus Minelli (5 December 1932 – 29 November 2025), leader of Dignitas assisted suicide organization

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 The Washington Post has the story Ludwig Minelli, founder of leading assisted suicide group, ends his life at 92.  Dignitas, which Mr. Mine...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Resuscitation theater ("slow codes"), and Medical Aid in Dying

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 Here's an article pointing out that "slow codes" often constitute resuscitation theater, i.e. they are a way to follow bureau...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Medical aid in dying: the continuing debate in England

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In June, the British Parliament passed a law to permit medical aid in dying, which still needs further action before going into effect.   Th...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Informed consent and mortal sin, in the case of Medical Aid in Dying

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 Studying morally contested transactions doesn't always suggest paths by which consensus might be reached. It often suggests that confli...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

New York State senate passes medical aid in dying bill

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 Yesterday the NY State Senate took the next step in making medical aid in dying legal in NY.  Now the bill goes to the governor... The NYT ...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Medical aid in dying bill advances (controversially) in New York State

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 A bill to legalize Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) in New York state has passed the Assembly and been referred to the Senate (after which it wo...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Medical aid in dying in Canada doesn't require a terminal diagnosis--should it?

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 Repugnance to medical aid in dying is sharpest when death isn't otherwise imminent.  Canada allows patients with irremediable pain to q...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Medical aid in dying advances in France

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 The proposed French law has some familiar and some novel features. Reuters has the story: French lawmakers approve assisted dying bill, pav...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Palliative care involves hard conversations

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 JAMA has a viewpoint by several palliative care physicians reflecting on why they are sometimes "fired" by their patients, i.e. w...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Hospice care and its limitations

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 I've recently posted about Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), which is quite controversial.  An alternative model of end of life care is a ho...
Friday, April 18, 2025

MAID in the Netherlands, together

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 The Guardian publishes a moving photo, and an interview with the photographer about his parents' decision to avail themselves of medica...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Danny Kahneman's last interview, and its backstory

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 Sometimes the backstory is more revealing than the story. In yesterday's NYT, the philosophers Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Sing...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

A Canadian MAID doctor recalls her first time

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 Yesterday's post was about medical aid in dying (MAID) in Switzerland, and the decision of a courageous scientist.  Below are some exc...