IQ2US: Legalize Assisted Suicide

 In 1994, Oregon voters passed the Death with Dignity Act, which legalized physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Since then, it has become legal in 4 more states, including New Mexico, where the state court ruling that it is constitutional is under appeal. Is it, in the words of the American Medical Association’s code of ethics, “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer”? Will these laws lead to a slippery slope, where the vulnerable are pressured to choose death and human life is devalued? Or do we need to recognize everyone’s basic right to autonomy, the right to end pain and suffering, and the right to choose to die with dignity?

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Sam Harris - It Is Always Now

Full Lecture:

Sam Harris - Death and the Present Moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTxTC...

Music:

Moby - Blue Paper
http://www.last.fm/music/Moby/_/Blue+...

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Sam Harris - Death and the Present Moment

 Published on Jun 2, 2012

A Celebration of Reason - 2012 Global Atheist Convention
13-15th April - Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre
Presented by the Atheist Foundation of Australia

http://atheistconvention.org.au
http://atheistfoundation.org.au

Sam Harris is a Co-Founder and CEO of Project Reason, a non-profit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
http://www.samharris.org/

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GeekDad: Bounded Enthusiasm #9: Jennifer Holm and The Fourteenth Goldfish

Today’s episode of Bounded Enthusiasm is an interview with Jennifer Holm about her latest book, The Fourteenth Goldfish. Holm has written several books for kids, both novels and comics, and has won three Newbery Honors and an Eisner Award. Before reading The Fourteenth Goldfish to my kids, I knew about Holm primarily for Babymouse and Squish, two comics series she writes that are illustrated by her brother Matthew Holm.

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