Archives for the 'ethics' Category

Right to Die

Assisted Suicide of Healthy 79-Year-Old Renews German Debate on Right to Die
By MARK LANDLER
NY Times, July 3, 2008
A woman’s desire to avoid life in a nursing home forces a country to confront the thorny ethical issue and casts an assisted-suicide advocate as Germany’s Jack Kevorkian.

But many here do not want Germany to follow the example […]

5 July 2008 | religion, ethics, assisted-suicide, life, suicide, authanasia, death, peter singer, kevorkian, nytimes | 5 Comments

Sacredness and the Environment

Yesterday at Biddeford Pool my daughter found a seal carcass. In order to investigate and appease her curiosity she asked me if she could throw rocks at it. After hesitating to sort out my moral conundrum I gave her permission. Kirsten overheard an older lady nearby question why we would allow them to do […]

10 September 2007 | environment, nature, ethics, parenting, animal rights | 10 Comments