Last updated on: 5/28/2014 | Author: ProCon.org

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., PhD, MD Biography

Title:
Professor of Philosophy at Rice University
Position:
Pro to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
Reasoning:

“One will need to live with individuals’ deciding with consenting others when to end their lives, not because such is good, but because one does not have the authority coercively to stop individuals from acting together in such ways. In a secular, pluralist society one will need to accept euthanasia by default.”

“Fashioning an Ethic for Life and Death in a Post-Modern Society,” the Hastings Center Report, 1989
Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Professor of Philosophy, Rice University
  • Professor, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame
Education:
  • MD, Tulane University, 1972
  • PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 1969
Other:
  • None found