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Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making

How should doctors, patients and families make end of life decisions? In this episode, originally recorded as part of Bioethics Bites, Peter Singer addresses this question from a utilitarian perspective, stressing the importance individual autonomy. Bioethics Bites is made in association with the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and made possible by a grant from the Wellcome Trust.

Listen to Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making

Previous interviews with Peter Singer:

Listen to Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics

Listen to Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save

Listen to Peter Singer on Using Animals (originally on Ethics Bites)

Another Philosophy Bites episode on ending lives:

Listen to Raymond Tallis on Assisted Dying

 

Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save

You'd help a drowning child. Why then aren't you doing more to help the children you know are starving and sick in various parts of the world? Peter Singer discusses the issue of the life you can save with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Listen to Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save

Listen to a previous discussion with Peter Singer on Using Animals

Visit The Life You Can Save website

Philosophy Bites is made in association with The Institute of Philosophy. This episode of Philosophy Bites was recorded during Sci Foo 2010.