Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C
@ThaddeusPope
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Health Law Professor (Top 20 Most Cited) / Fulbright Scholar / Bioethicist / Patient Rights Advocate / Medical Decision Making / End-of-Life / Death & Dying
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Joined December 2008
Medical Aid in Dying - New York Is 14th U.S. Jurisdiction: The website of the New York Governor indicates that New York will become the 14th U.S. jurisdiction to authorize medical aid in dying. One year ago, only 11 U.S. jurisdictions authorized MAID.… https://t.co/RIbvFCc3eK
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Why families need to talk about living wills https://t.co/ppE5sVI4Hz via @YouTube
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Default Surrogate Law - Missouri Tries Again: Missouri is one of the very few jurisdictions in the United States with no default surrogate statute. Legislation introduced for the 2026 session (H.B. 1886) again tries tom remedy that gap. https://t.co/XU085o1nOe
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Derek Humphry (1930 - 2025) - The Lives They Lived: The New York Times Magazine profiles the most important people who died in 2025. Katie Engelhardt contributes a compelling obituary on Derek Humphry. https://t.co/62PavaXyIz
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Donor Reanimation - OPO Duties When Determination of Death Was Wrong: A case pending before the Mississippi Supreme Court presents questions that are increasingly relevant. What should an OPO do when the individual who was determined dead is no longer… https://t.co/uXSiy3jmIn
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End-of-Life Law - 2-Day Intensive Course: Queen’s Law is offering a two-day intensive, next month, for all professionals on legal readiness in life’s final stages. Here is the course outline: Long-Term Care Worries * Situating Long-Term Care and… https://t.co/MNPeyxf7cA
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Default Surrogate Law - Missouri Tries Again: Missouri is one of the very few jurisdictions in the United States with no default surrogate statute. Legislation introduced for the 2026 session (H.B. 1886) again tries tom remedy that gap. https://t.co/XU085o1nOe
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Irish Court Authorizes Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment: The Irish High Court has authorized clinicians to withdraw life-sustaining treatment from a 51-year-old patient. S.M. suffered severe hypoxic brain injury after several cardiac arrests. The… https://t.co/yl3ytoQQzm
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Irish Court Authorizes Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment: The Irish High Court has authorized clinicians to withdraw life-sustaining treatment from a 51-year-old patient. S.M. suffered severe hypoxic brain injury after several cardiac arrests. The… https://t.co/yl3ytoQQzm
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Hospital Failed to Tell Patient He Was Terminally Ill: William Chapman was seen by a consultant who noted in a letter to his GP that Chapman had pulmonary fibrosis. But nobody told Chapman about this. He found out only much later. Much like this famous…
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We're pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the 6th Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop, to be held at NYU. https://t.co/kURkXu1aSN
#bioethics #AI #environment #ethics #philosophy #reproductiveethics #animalethics #ClinicalEthics #medicalethics
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Medical Aid in Dying - New York Is 14th U.S. Jurisdiction: The website of the New York Governor indicates that New York will become the 14th U.S. jurisdiction to authorize medical aid in dying. One year ago, only 11 U.S. jurisdictions authorized MAID.… https://t.co/RIbvFCc3eK
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National U.S. Advance Directive Registry: Several states have state registries for advance directives and/or POLSTs. But we may someday have a federal nationwide registry. Spain already has one. The Legacy Act of 2025 (H.R. 5861) directs the… https://t.co/ZfTNmMslk7
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Derek Humphry (1930 - 2025) - The Lives They Lived: The New York Times Magazine profiles the most important people who died in 2025. Katie Engelhardt contributes a compelling obituary on Derek Humphry. https://t.co/62PavaXyIz
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End-of-Life Law - 2-Day Intensive Course: Queen’s Law is offering a two-day intensive, next month, for all professionals on legal readiness in life’s final stages. Here is the course outline: Long-Term Care Worries * Situating Long-Term Care and… https://t.co/MNPeyxf7cA
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Illinois End of Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (Deb's Law): The Governor of Illinois has signed S.B. 1950, the Illinois End of Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (Deb's Law). This makes Illinois the 13th U.S. jurisdiction to… https://t.co/rDom3BXLEx
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Brain Death - Court Rules Against Family: L.S. was only 12 years old when she was asphyxiated at home. On November 4, 2025, clinicians used the new 2025 Code of Practice to determine that she was dead on neurologic criteria. But L.S.'s parents did not… https://t.co/8WBNGrVCR7
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Hospital Failed to Tell Patient He Was Terminally Ill: William Chapman was seen by a consultant who noted in a letter to his GP that Chapman had pulmonary fibrosis. But nobody told Chapman about this. He found out only much later. Much like this famous…
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Technologic Support for Dead Patients - Required by Law: ABC News Nightline provides an update on the Adriana Smith case. I provide some broader context in a forthcoming article in the American Journal of Bioethics - "Brain Death: Five Mandates to… https://t.co/oKNHQfpmAq
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International Shared Decision Making Conference 2026: The International Shared Decision Making Conference has extended abstract submissions to December 19, 2025. Check it out here. https://t.co/QXzH8RRZ8b
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