We are a multidisciplinary fellowship researching threats to life at its beginning and natural end.

THE BRAIN DEATH QUESTION

Integrated But Not Whole? Applying an Ontological Account of Human Organismal Unity to the Brain Death Debate  Melissa Moschella

Reply to Melissa Moschella  E. Christian Brugger 

Brain Death and Irreplaceable Parts  Christopher Tollefsen 

Existing As My Soul: A Response to Christopher Tollefsen’s “Brain Death and Irreplaceable Parts”  Thomas V. Berg


QUESTIONS ON PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Washington v. Glucksberg and Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Pyrrhic Victory?   Christopher Wolfe

Arguing Precisely Why Assisted Suicide is Wrong and Whether Morality is More Like Math or Beauty Joshua Cole 

Obergefell, Substantive Due Process, and the Constitutionality of Laws Banning Assisted Suicide  Richard S. Myers

Five “Tricks of the Heart” regarding Physician Assisted Suicide  Susan Windley-Daoust


OTHER END OF LIFE QUESTIONS

End-of-Life Options and Double Effect: On the Use and Misuse of a Classical Ethical Principle  Heidi Giebel 

Death, Dignity, and Moral Status  David Hershenov 

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking at the End of Life (VSED) and Its Troubling Implications for Nursing Practice   Elizabeth Sutton

A Bridge That Does Not Exist: Reductio ad Absurdum and the Socratic Method in Teaching on the Issues of Abortion and Euthanasia  Simona Kragh

Animals, Advance Directives, and Prudence: Should We Let the Cheerfully Demented Die?  David G. Limbaugh


THE CULTURE OF LIFE

Contemplative Sorrow and the Culture of Life  Margaret I. Hughes

Biography and Abortion: Perception and Distortion of Reality in Accounts by Celebrity Aborted Mothers   Jeff Koloze 

Drama Pro Vita: Farewell to Hippocrates and Just Like Us  John J. Conley, S.J.

The Self-Evident Truth of the Inalienable Right to Life and The Slavery Analogy to Abortion   Lynn D. Wardle

Sketch of an Existential Bioethic: Abortion qua Existential Despair   Timothy Rothhaar 

Population Decline in Clark County — Good or Bad?    David L. Banaszak


NASCENT LIFE ISSUES

Framing Unplanned Pregnancy Decision Making within the Theory of Planned Behavior  Nicholas DiFonzo

Embryos and Integration  Maureen L. Condic 

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