Life or death

Suspended life or extending death?

Oxygen cylinders: "life" or "death"?

Oxygen is crucial to maintain and save human life. Other than medical purposes it is widely used for manufacture of mineral water, fabrication works and other industrial activities. If adequate precautionary measures are not adopted while handling, storage or transport of oxygen cylinder or container, accidental blast may claim human life and other damage as well. The case involving three victi...

Evaluating Life or Death Prospects

Luc Bovens and Marc Fleurbaey Economics and Philosophy / Volume 28 / Special Issue 02 / July 2012, pp 217 ­ 249 DOI: 10.1017/S0266267112000235, Published online: 29 August 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0266267112000235 How to cite this article: Luc Bovens and Marc Fleurbaey (2012). EVALUATING LIFE OR DEATH PROSPECTS. Economics and Philosophy, 28, pp 217­249 ...

Euthanasia: a matter of life or death?

right to hasten death’ ... but on well established, traditional rights to bodily integrity and freedom from unwanted touching.”41 Taken in their totality, these cases show that the American courts have cleaved closely to the guiding principle of one’s liberty to refuse unwanted medical treatment, and have thus far shown no signs of crossing to the other side of the act-omission divide. 35. Wash...

Life-or-Death Decisions upon Axonal Damage

In this issue of Neuron, Hu et al. (2012) report that upon axonal damage, CHOP and XBP1 unfolded protein response pathways are not recruited equally and have opposite effects on neuronal survival. XBP1 pathway boosting may represent a valuable neuroprotective strategy.