EDST 391 Ethics & the Human Genome

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Required readings:

• Would life extension make us less human? Ker Than, MSNBC.com, 5/24/06.
• The State of Research into Human Immortality is presently far from ideal, www.fightaging.org, 3/21/11.
• Top Ten Pros and Cons: Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide be legal? ProCon.org, 5/28/10.

1. What is more ethically permissible, immortality or euthanasia? Which do you consider to be more “natural?”

• There will be a short quiz at the beginning of class.

• Paper assignment 3 lists a number of proposed laws (all hypothetical). Please email me the particular law you have tentatively chosen to write about. If you want to propose your own law, please email me a draft of it.
• Please send me your email at least 2 hours before class meets again next Tuesday.