Bria Sandford

So many of these people mean well, but their compassion / fear has blinded them to the implications of making doctors state-sanctioned agents of death for those whose life doesn’t meet certain quality standards.

I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in @nytimes. The standard story we hear is that students don't want it. But a darker reality is that even when it wins big with students and donors it loses with those in power. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opi…

I was going to write about the Yeti prank thing in Denver (which I am broadly in favor of) but instead. . .

I wrote last week about the possibility of a religious revival organized around a defense of the human in the face of the increasingly anti-human technology that surrounds us.

right wing folks on this website hear "Muslim" like how left wing folks hear "evangelical"

Monday morning quarterbacking I know I know

In retrospect Cuomo shouldn’t have killed all those people.

Of all the arguments I’ve ever heard against suicide, assisted or otherwise, the one that lingers with me most is from my mom: “I could just never do that to people I care about.”

“In a hundred years, if Christians are known as a strange group of people who don't kill their children and don't kill the elderly, we will have done a great thing.” - Stanley Hauerwas

One of the most chilling moments of the committee stage was when Gordon remarked, with a slight smile, that “There’s something quite British in feeling a bit like a burden,” then voted against an amendment to prevent people receiving lethal drugs because that’s how they feel:

it’s a true indictment of our society that this safeguard was voted against, and it truly shows how little our elected representatives value disabled lives

We are going to die from compassion twee aren't we.

The front page of the New York Times on October 8, 1933. "authorize physicians to end the sufferings of incurable patients" "it shall be made possible for physicians to end the tortures of incurable patients, upon request, in the interests of true humanity" "the act of…

“In the interests of ‘true’ humanity…”

As I said before, if you think you "own" your life and your body, other people can own it as well. It is just a matter of who is stronger. The reduction of ethics to "property rights" is really its obliteration.

Euthanasia debates now reflect just enough knowledge of what's happening in Canada that advocates have to argue, "Yes, we're for mass suicide — but the good kind." If you consider yourself a moderate and are relieved by this nuance, think about it for a moment.

You need to understand the dishonesty of what @BasedMikeLee is saying here. Little of the land being sold is the sort of land you would build houses on. This is not about development. It is about selling off huge tracts to logging companies and mining conglomerates.

3. Some of his headline findings were as follows: 2012-2019: European countries without AS increased palliative care provision more than three times more than countries with AS.

1. How do assisted suicide laws affect palliative care? Big question this week, with Gordon Brown warning that the Leadbeater bill prioritises death over palliative care, and Leadbeater arguing “this is not an either-or”. Where does the evidence point? x.com/dignityindying…

Really excellent piece by @douthatnyt today on why MAiD laws are inherently a slippery slope. The whole column is worth reading (gift link in next tweet) but these two screenshots capture the central argument. @agostino_harry @AudreyPollnow @suzania @blsandford @LeahLibresco

Adult grandchildren are increasingly speaking to me about having lost their grandparents to medical assistance in dying (MAID). I'm telling you, this is creating intergenerational trauma – the consequences of which are just beginning to be seen.