If you are of a sensitive disposition and a member of the female persuasion you might choose to look away NOW – you can come in again at the asterisk below. Ahah! Did you think I was going to talk about the BBC documentary on assisted suicide? Sir Terry Pratchett investigating the experience of the [...]
What a week since I last posted a blog! The news has been a positive playground for medical ethicists!! IVF clinics reported to be destroying embryos with minor conditions; a ‘genetic breakthrough’ which could help treatments for breast cancer to be tailored to individual need; a mother who forced her son to fake illness being [...]
Serious week. Calls for a serious blog. Especially from the author of Right to Die. Because assisted suicide hit the headlines again this week, big time, and some of my readers have contacted me about it. Prompting me to offer a couple of comments. First the Royal College of Nursing officially withdrew its opposition to [...]