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VanRiper, Janice S.

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Respecting and honoring the dead in the biotechnological age: A proposal.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Respecting and honoring the dead in the biotechnological age: A proposal./
Author:	VanRiper, Janice S.
Description:	163 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Leslie Francis.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-07A.
Subject:	Health Sciences, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3224984
ISBN:	9780542794025

Respecting and honoring the dead in the biotechnological age: A proposal.
VanRiper, Janice S.

Respecting and honoring the dead in the biotechnological age: A proposal. - 163 p.

Adviser: Leslie Francis.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Utah, 2006.

When people die, family members often argue about what kind of body disposition to arrange and what sorts of memorial or funeral services to hold. Their wishes sometimes conflict with what the deceased had preferred. Often the disputes have ethical dimensions, with worries about whose preferences ought to prevail. Should the deceased wishes be honored, even if they are at odds with arrangements that might bring the grieving relatives more comfort? Additionally, rapidly expanding technologies create new uses for the physical remains of the dead almost daily. Is it wrong, for example, to use their remains if they had not consented?

ISBN: 9780542794025Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017817
Health Sciences, General.

Respecting and honoring the dead in the biotechnological age: A proposal.
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520 $a When people die, family members often argue about what kind of body disposition to arrange and what sorts of memorial or funeral services to hold. Their wishes sometimes conflict with what the deceased had preferred. Often the disputes have ethical dimensions, with worries about whose preferences ought to prevail. Should the deceased wishes be honored, even if they are at odds with arrangements that might bring the grieving relatives more comfort? Additionally, rapidly expanding technologies create new uses for the physical remains of the dead almost daily. Is it wrong, for example, to use their remains if they had not consented?
520 $a In the scant law addressing these disputes, inconsistencies often reflect our ambivalence about what is at stake. Individuals, and courts that often decide these questions, agree that we ought to "respect and honor the dead." There is little written, however, about what that means, or how it should play out in disputes concerning the treatment of human remains.
520 $a I propose to make a contribution to clarifying what is at stake when deciding how to treat "the dead." My thesis is that if we assume that the dead do not know or care about worldly events, then our intuitions that we can somehow harm the dead are philosophically unsubstantiated. I suggest that we replace the intuition with a more robust understanding of "respect for the dead." I argue that various aspects of our---the living's---relationships with that which remains of the dead, including their physical remains, creates several kinds of "respect" obligations to those remains.
520 $a These obligations have implications not only for personal decision-making, but also for policies concerning rights to control the terms of body dispositions and memorial services, and for laws governing increasing new uses for human remains. I argue that relevant law should include a strong preference for following any directions made by someone before death regarding body disposition, and against using or disturbing human physical remains. In both cases, the presumption could be overcome only by a showing of a strong compelling reason to use the remains for the benefit of currently living persons.
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