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Jenny Morber, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Mosaic: The Science of Life
April 26, 2016

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[...] Where a man has made his wishes clear, the rights of the dead almost always supplant the rights of the living. Why? Law professor Glenn Cohen says this question is almost as old as philosophy itself. There are two main camps. “One says… if you can’t experience anything… how we can talk cogently about you being harmed?” he says. “The other camp says no, your life can go better or worse depending on what happens to you after you are dead.” For those in this camp, he says, it’s much more natural to think that banning posthumous retrieval is necessary to prevent harm to the dead. [...]

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bioethics   health law policy   human subjects research   i. glenn cohen   reproductive rights