Come to The Second International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
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The Second International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide will be held near Dulles Airport on May 29-30. I'll be there (although I don't like the photo in the ad), also Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Rita Marker, head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, Attorney Margaret Dore from Washington State, who has jumped into the fray big time in the last year, Diane Coleman of Not Dead Yet, Bobby Schindler, Terri Schiavo's brother, William Toffler from Physicians for Compassionate Care, Peter Saunders from the UK's Care Not Killing, and many more. Here's a link for more information.
Be there or be square.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 6:12 PM
13 Comments
13 Comments:
That's in my general neighborhood, Wesley, but way out of my price range. Too bad. I would love to hear many of these speakers, and it might help with the feeling of impotence and loss that I get when I think about these issues lately. (Perhaps that is just Lent talking, though.)
holyterror: I have nothing to do with the organization of the symposium, but perhaps there are scholarships or discounts available in specific cases. (I have no idea). The person to find out from is Alex Schadenberg.
THE TRUE AGENDA EXPOSED!!!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-m-appel
/are-we-ready-for-a-market_b_175900.html
Appel supports fetal farming. How unsurprising. That he has a blog at the Huffington Post is notable. I used to know Arianna Huffington, which is to say I still do but haven't interacted with her for years. At the time, I was under the impression she opposed euthanasia. Not that she couldn't have someone on her site that didn't agree with her. But this radical?
I clicked onto the link and didn't see anything about cost of attending the symposium. Did I miss something? Where?
Another computer-unadept question: I see references (links) like the one Patrick just posted here and elsewhere and have no idea how to get to them and what all those letters and numbers and abbreviations mean. Someone tried to teach me to cut and paste and I can't even grasp that; is that what one has to do to get to them?
Didn't Arianna Huffington used to be a conservative and now she's a liberal? If that's the case she's the only person I ever heard of who made the switch in that direction; it happens from liberal to conservative, Democrat to Republican but I've never heard of the opposite except in her case (if indeed I understand correctly that she did).
Virginia? How about Berkeley or Sacramento?
I listened to all the podcasts recently. Great stuff. Very easy to download. More Brave New Bioethics!
Thanks Don. I have been so busy, we ran out of those I had recorded before. I have to do a new batch, but it is hard to get the time. Soon.
The comment thread on the HuffPo article is particularly depressing - a collection of people vaguely disturbed by fetal farming trying to articulate how that's completely different from embryonic stem cell harvesting, and a few people reacting with hostility to any suggestion that abortion could ever be wrong for any reason.
Add in some people saying "how DARE you tell sick people they can't have fetal-farmed organs to cure them", and a lot of references to fetal organs as "just going into the trash heap otherwise", and you've got pretty much the whole thing.
SparkVac: Because the Huff Post has milliosn of readers, I felt the need to react. See http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/03/shs-as-source-for-anti-human.html
Thanks to PATRICK for bringing this to my attention.
Holy Terror -
I gave up chocolate for Lent. Believe me, after three weeks of deprevation, I'm feeling impotent and depressed, too. You're in good company.
Wesley -
I don't know why you don't like the picture. It looks very good.
By the way - Concerning Terri Schiavo. If I'm not mistaken (and I admit I might be, I'm chocolate-deprived and laid off, I might be having a hallucination here), didn't the family have her name as "Terri Schindler" on her tombestone? I'm wondering, is it appropriate to refer to her as Terri Schiavo anymore? Her family sort of disowned her husband after the way he, you know, murdered her. I know you would continue to refer to her as Terri Schaivo for reference sake under any circumstances, but I'm wondering, since you know the family, what they consider appropriate.
And I hope the symposium is fun, educational, and nobody ticks you off. And if someone does, get it on video camera and humiliate 'em via YouTube.
And most of all, be safe. I like you, I'd like you to come home only in as many pieces as you leave home. <3
Tabs: I am very sorry you were laid off. That's very hard. We are experiencing the same anxiety. Secondhand Smokette, as you know, is at the SF Chronicle and there is blood flowing down the aisle there right now with people she is very close to set to leave. It is very sad, even if she keeps her job, which we won't know for awhile.
No. Her family didn't do the tombstone, Michael did and he put on there, "I kept my promise," which is about him, not her.
Her family call her Terri Schindler Schiavo as in the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation. That was her name and they have never, as far as I know, used a different one.
Somebody always ticks me off, and I always tick somebody off. Thanks for the safety wish. We agree!
Why and how is Michael allowed to run around loose? He and a lot of other people. I've always found that cab drivers, along with cops and good reporters, are the smartest people in the world, and cab drivers who have come here from elsewhere are always remarking, "You have too much freedom in this country." Unfortunately, some here do.
Wesley -
I'm optimistic. Things happen in God's time, not mine, or so I believe, so I'm just grumpy, not freaked out.
Tell Mrs. Smokette that I hope she is okay where she's at, and that I feel sympathy for her - it's hard to lose friends you've worked with. Bah.
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