Medical Futility Blog

The European Association of Centres for Medical Ethics conference will be Leuven, Belgium from September 24-26, 2026.  Abstracts are  open h...

A case now being briefed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit raises critical issues about how terminal illness is determined ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has just certified this question to the Supreme Court of Mississippi: Does Mississippi’s Uni...

If you are not yet  registered for ICEL5 , early bird registration ends November 30, 2025. The International Conference on Assisted Dying an...

I recently published  on how we procure organs from unrepresented patients. To illustrate my points, I pointed to some ongoing New York liti...

Lashanna Williams from  A Scared Passing discusses VSED in this 2-hour webinar . Unlike my own VSED presentations which summarize published...

Clinicians at the University of Rochester resuscitated Donald Tuohey contrary to his MOLST. His family successfully litigated a medical malp...

The theme for the  Society of Christian Bioethics Annual Conference is  The End of Life, the Gift of Life: Reflections on Death and Organ D...

Since 1995, the Emory Law Journal has hosted the Randolph W. Thrower Symposium—an Emory Law tradition that brings scholars and leaders toge...

The Annual HEC Conference at Emory University is one of the best regional bioethics conferences in the country. Plan to be in Atlanta or on...

Last week, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) approved a seventh edition of the Ethical and Religious Directives for ...

Alex Schadenberg reports the  death of John Kelly . I agree 110% that "John was a gifted orator and incredibly funny and witty." A...

Americans United for Life has again named the best states for end-of-life liberty. These happen to be the states at the bottom of its 2026 ...

Join me at the Hemlock Society of San Diego on January 18, 2026 , for  New and Emerging Right to Die Options: Twelve Ways to Avoid Late-Stag...