Tags
Adverts Anonymous Father's Day ART Assisted Suicide biotechnology BookReview Breeders California Cloning Covenant CT egg donation Eggs eggsploitation Embryo embryos End of Life ESCR ethics Euthanasia Faking Life Fiction Film Film genetics hospice IVF Making Life Misc Neuroethics Novel physician assisted suicide President's Council quote QuoteBoard Repro Tech Stem Cell stories Suicide Surrogacy Taking Life Third Party Reproduction Transhumanism TV Washington DCCategories
Archives
Tag Archives: Taking Life
How Much Further Down the Road of Artifice Should We Travel?
The cover story in July 4 edition of Time magazine examines the gene editing technique known as CRISPR. The article is helpful for understanding the basics of the science of CRISPR, and it raises a number of the ethical issues … Continue reading
Posted in Blog
Tagged CRISPR, DNA, Faking Life, Making Life, Ramsey, Repro Tech, RNA, Taking Life
Leave a comment
Physicians Aren’t Supposed to Kill their Patients
With the California legislature currently debating the legalization of physician assisted suicide, it’s significant that today’s Los Angeles Times profiles Dr. Ira Byock, the author of a number of books on end of life issues including Dying Well and The … Continue reading
What to Watch
When Jennifer and I went to UC Irvine a few weeks ago to show Breeders, I casually referenced the film Gattaca during the Q&A that followed the screening. Even as I was saying it, I wondered how many people in … Continue reading
Amour
Scriptwriter and script consultant Barbara Nicolosi reviews the Oscar-nominated French Film Amour, finding it “a dark, draggy, lie.” The journey of the movie is to drag us from our first moral impulse that this is a crime scene, to the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog
Tagged Assisted Suicide, End of Life, Euthanasia, physician assisted suicide, Suicide, Taking Life
Leave a comment