Here’s hoping there’s increased conversation about both voluntary brain preservation, and voluntary brain death as both assisted suicide and an evidence-supported way to boost organ donation rates
Here’s hoping the Open Philanthropy Project and/or other EA organisations are willing to engage with negative utilitarian considerations and dare to fund humane deaths!. Many EA’s support the same for animals. Why not humans?
There are reliable avenues for people to do it anyway. May is well keep their dignity, keep their environment tidy, not scaring innocent witnesses.
While I’m a proponent of voluntary euthanasia under some conditions I think this post is overly dismissive of why people might shy away from it.
Also on the note of rhetoric:
If you want to promote the position it’s probably best to not jump straight into taboo tradeoffs.
Framing it as a way of boosting organ donation rates will cause people to have the same visceral reaction that they would to saying that baby-torture would boost company profits.
Terry Pratchett’s Richard Dimbleby lecture Shaking Hands With Death handles it pretty well as it frames it as not wanting to spend the end of your life with tubes trailing out of you which is more along the lines of trading sacred value for sacred value.
Here’s hoping there’s increased conversation about both voluntary brain preservation, and voluntary brain death as both assisted suicide and an evidence-supported way to boost organ donation rates
Here’s hoping the Open Philanthropy Project and/or other EA organisations are willing to engage with negative utilitarian considerations and dare to fund humane deaths!. Many EA’s support the same for animals. Why not humans?
There are reliable avenues for people to do it anyway. May is well keep their dignity, keep their environment tidy, not scaring innocent witnesses.
While I’m a proponent of voluntary euthanasia under some conditions I think this post is overly dismissive of why people might shy away from it.
Also on the note of rhetoric:
If you want to promote the position it’s probably best to not jump straight into taboo tradeoffs.
Framing it as a way of boosting organ donation rates will cause people to have the same visceral reaction that they would to saying that baby-torture would boost company profits.
Terry Pratchett’s Richard Dimbleby lecture Shaking Hands With Death handles it pretty well as it frames it as not wanting to spend the end of your life with tubes trailing out of you which is more along the lines of trading sacred value for sacred value.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90b1MBwnEHM