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The Legacy of the Schiavo Case: The Penn Conference is Now Online

Streaming video from the 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Center for Bioethics at Penn is now up and is of very high quality; usable in a class even. This is good stuff, streams well and is free of charge from the Symposium site.

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If dehydration is such a humane way of ending a life, why can we not then employ it to execute convicted murderers?

Euthanasia is something which is still not legal and recognised by the govt. My personal feeling is euthanasia should be granted to those who need it and feel unable to survive in the world and do not remain a burned on others though in other terms it could be called mercy killing ... Bioethics is something how you perceive it to be

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