UFL Life and Learning Conference XXVI

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THE BRAIN DEATH QUESTION
Integrated But Not Whole? Applying an Ontological Account of Human Organismal Unity to the Brain Death Debate
Melissa Moschella
Reply to Melissa Moschella
E. Christian Brugger
Brain Death and Irreplaceable Parts
Christopher Tollefsen
Existing As My Soul: A Response to Christopher Tollefsen’s "Brain Death and Irreplaceable Parts"
Thomas V. Berg
QUESTIONS ON PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE
Washington v. Glucksberg and Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Pyrrhic Victory?
Christopher Wolfe
Arguing Precisely Why Assisted Suicide is Wrong and Whether Morality is More Like Math or Beauty
Joshua Cole
Obergefell, Substantive Due Process, and the Constitutionality of Laws Banning Assisted Suicide
Richard S. Myers
Five "Tricks of the Heart" regarding Physician Assisted Suicide
Susan Windley-Daoust
OTHER END OF LIFE QUESTIONS
End-of-Life Options and Double Effect: On the Use and Misuse of a Classical Ethical Principle
Heidi Giebel
Death, Dignity, and Moral Status
David Hershenov
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking at the End of Life (VSED) and Its Troubling Implications for Nursing Practice
Elizabeth Sutton
A Bridge That Does Not Exist: Reductio ad Absurdum and the Socratic Method in Teaching on the Issues of Abortion and Euthanasia
Simona Kragh
Animals, Advance Directives, and Prudence: Should We Let the Cheerfully Demented Die?
David G. Limbaugh
THE CULTURE OF LIFE
Contemplative Sorrow and the Culture of Life
Margaret I. Hughes
Biography and Abortion: Perception and Distortion of Reality in Accounts by Celebrity Aborted Mothers
Jeff Koloze
Drama Pro Vita: Farewell to Hippocrates and Just Like Us
John J. Conley, S.J.
The Self-Evident Truth of the Inalienable Right to Life and The Slavery Analogy to Abortion
Lynn D. Wardle
Sketch of an Existential Bioethic: Abortion qua Existential Despair
Timothy Rothhaar
Population Decline in Clark County -- Good or Bad?
David L. Banaszak
NASCENT LIFE ISSUES
Framing Unplanned Pregnancy Decision Making within the Theory of Planned Behavior
Nicholas DiFonzo
Embryos and Integration
Maureen L. Condic