Rethinking Life and Death

The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics

By: Peter Singer

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Paperback | 1 September 1995

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A victim of the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, Anthony Bland lay in hospital in a coma being fed liquid food by a pump, via a tube passing through his nose and into his stomach. On 4 February 1993 Britain's highest court ruled that doctors attending him could lawfully act to end his life. Our traditional ways of thinking about life and death are collapsing. In a world of respirators and embryos stored for years in liquid nitrogen, we can no longer take the sanctity of human life as the cornerstone of our ethical outlook. In this controversial book Peter Singer argues that we cannot deal with the crucial issues of death, abortion, euthanasia and the rights of nonhuman animals unless we sweep away the old ethic and build something new in its place. Singer outlines a new set of commandments, based on compassion and commonsense, for the decisions everyone must make about life and death.

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`With the philosopher's commendable lack of concern for the impact of his ideas, Peter Singer has written a wonderfully provoking book.' Dr Brice Avery, Catholic Herald `a work that promises to be deeply controversial and even shocking and, in part, it certainly is' Times Higher

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