January 25th, 2007
“Mama, I won’t let you die. Not until you’re Big Old like great grammie is,” my son told me about a month ago. He’s at an age where he’s trying to wrap his head around such big thoughts as ‘next week’ and ‘dead’. with equal devotion to the seriousness and bigness of the subjects. He […]
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January 12th, 2007
To follow up on my earlier post on Pillow Angels, Time Magazine published part two of their Pillow Angel Ethics series on Tuesday, 9 January. This time, we look at Ashley’s case not from the view of science, but ethics and philosophy. A single quote from that article raises a question I dare not answer: […]
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January 9th, 2007
There’s a backlash against the kind of rampant consumerism that we’ve seen over the last what? decade? forever, here in the USA? Have you heard about the Compact yet, the movement that began in San Francisco with a decision to buy nothing new for an entire year (excluding medicine, plain old undies, and food, that […]
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January 7th, 2007
Imagine loving an infant who would never roll over, sit up, crawl, toddle or run. Imagine worrying about their future. What would you do to make their lives more comfortable? Time magazine is running a series of articles about the ethical dilemmas surrounding a ‘pillow angel’s’ parents’ decision to use hormone and surgical treatments to […]
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