Euthanasia in Canada was meant to be "rare" and only a "last resort". It isn't. A thread on how despite good intentions, 🇨🇦 created the world's largest and fastest growing euthanasia program, and why proponents and policymakers drastically underestimated the number of deaths:

“The project of modernity was to produce people who believe they should have no story except the story they choose when they have no story.” —Hauerwas

Oh dear. I live in... "Whataburger" 😂

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Early view in Christian Bioethics doi.org/10.1093/cb/cba… A bit different of an approach to the topic, but it was a pleasure to write. Based off of remarks I gave last year The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity's annual conference. Pre-print available here: philpapers.org/rec/OMELFS

A lung transplant patient wrote to me "Thank you from the bottom of my lungs". I love this so much. It doesn't always work out, but when it does, organ transplants are nothing short of miracles. #MedTwitter

Cool case presentation about a capacity assessment that relied on texting with the patient to establish communication. Very creative, indeed! doi.org/10.1007/s10730…

Huh... I guess the 90s were all about how the might of procedural liberalism makes right. "We affirm process." Indeed, you do! Btw... what a way to begin an article.

Trending in #Religion: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Evangelicalism & the Era of the Religious Right 2) Scotus, Aquinas & Radical Orthodoxy (Religions MDPI) 3) Muslim, Not Supermuslim 4) Defining & Determining Death ( ReligionBrainBehavior) 5) Paradox of Vulnerability

Anecdotally, physicians tell me they felt they received little to no (good) training in how to do capacity assessments in residency. That appears to holds true for psychiatrists as well (the "expert" specialty on this topic). From 2013: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16446413/

Second week of the semester and I've already had students use (and own up to using) ChatGPT to write their first assignment: "briefly introduce yourself and say what you're hoping to get out of this class". They are also using it to word the *questions they ask in class*.

“Impossible to be pessimistic enough about it”—Megan Fritts throwing cold water on AI enthusiasm among university professors/admin who really should have known better:

Excited that our review of #ethical issues in a new #organdonation #technology called #NRP has been published in Transplantation. Grateful to Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program and Trillium Gift of Life Network (Ontario Health) for supporting our work Read our open access article here: journals.lww.com/transplantjour…

This, from Brian Boyd, well describes the frustrations I have about the ethical discourse surrounding emerging technologies. thenewatlantis.com/publications/w…

One of my philosophical pet peeves: philosophers pretending to think that death is just “meh, no big deal; immortality would probably be really boring anyway”. Death is horrible, absurd, and a grotesque harm to the one who dies. Epicurus and Williams were coping.

This is uncontroversially correct. There is virtually no data to support the claim that any doctors save God

Last night I took a ministry resident for a hospital visitation. On the way over I gave him the usual speech for this unique ministry venue: 1. Silence the phone 2. Grab a breath mint 3. Bring a Bible 4. Talk little, listen much 5. Read a psalm, then pray it over them 6. Tears

Some people got some nerve.

On National Read a Book Day here is just one book about transplantation - do you have any other recommendations?