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
The review of the Mental Capacity Act Code presents an ideal opportunity to reflect further on the legitimacy of the existing ‘basic care’ exclusion in advance decisions and to resolve the current anomaly @AGoodDeath @Capacitylaw @KitzingerCelia @TheBMA
Interrogating the Limits of Precedent Autonomy: The Anomalous Exclusion of Basic Care from the Ambit of Advance Decisions: Capacitated individuals in the UK can refuse basic care like food and water. This was a core part of my presentation to the UKCEN… https://t.co/JdbwQTPYaC
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Legal Update 2025: Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics and Public Health -- only 4 more days -- 2pm Oregon Ballroom #ASBH #ASBH2025 #Bioethics #ClinicalEthics
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Advance Directives: Ten Strategies to Assure Value Congruent Treatment: My latest article is now available here in the November 2025 issue of American Journal of Bioethics -- Advance Directives: Ten Strategies to Assure Value Congruent Treatment. … https://t.co/kLyzVbqbiV
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Uruguay Approves MAID/VAD Law: Uruguay has enacted a law authorizing MAID/VAD/euthanasia. It is the third Latin American country to do so, following Colombia and Ecuador. https://t.co/rtDMsaycJp
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MAID in Switzerland - New George Clooney Movie: George Clooney and Annette Bening are set to star in upcoming book adaptation based on Amy Bloom’s New York Times bestselling memoir In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss. The book describes Amy's husband's…
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Medical Futility Laws Protect Surrogate Decision Makers by Constraining Clinicians and Hospitals: My latest article is now available in the September 2025 HEC FORUM - "Medical Futility Laws Protect Surrogate Decision Makers by Constraining Clinicians and… https://t.co/sDHRdi8dVT
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No federal government turns us into Italy??
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Advance Directives: Ten Strategies to Assure Value Congruent Treatment: My latest article is now available here in the November 2025 issue of American Journal of Bioethics -- Advance Directives: Ten Strategies to Assure Value Congruent Treatment. … https://t.co/kLyzVbqbiV
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Brain Death - Dealing with Objections to Technology Removal: A group of Philadelphia researchers has published this wonderful taxonomy of ethical issues and approaches when surrogates object to technology removal after brain death determination. They…
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50 free e-prints of "Advance Directives: Ten Strategies to Assure Value Congruent Treatment" published today in AJOB
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Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 11, 2025)
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Interrogating the Limits of Precedent Autonomy: The Anomalous Exclusion of Basic Care from the Ambit of Advance Decisions: Capacitated individuals in the UK can refuse basic care like food and water. This was a core part of my presentation to the UKCEN… https://t.co/JdbwQTPYaC
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Interrogating the Limits of Precedent Autonomy: The Anomalous Exclusion of Basic Care from the Ambit of Advance Decisions: Capacitated individuals in the UK can refuse basic care like food and water. This was a core part of my presentation to the UKCEN… https://t.co/JdbwQTPYaC
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Uruguay Approves MAID/VAD Law: Uruguay has enacted a law authorizing MAID/VAD/euthanasia. It is the third Latin American country to do so, following Colombia and Ecuador. https://t.co/rtDMsaycJp
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VAD/MAID Finally Coming Back to the Northern Territory: Australia's Northern Territory was the first place in the world to affirmatively authorize VAD/MAID. But after the law was quickly repealed by the federal government in the 1990s, the NT is now set… https://t.co/jw9SK2IvGZ
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Medical Futility Laws Protect Surrogate Decision Makers by Constraining Clinicians and Hospitals - free view link https://t.co/X9tFusfT6P
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Right to Die? A Debate on Physician-Assisted Suicide in Ohio (video): Check out this video from The University of Toledo's Institute of American Constitutional Thought & Leadership. Two nationally respected voices in medical ethics—Dr. Charles Camosy… https://t.co/RqtmcKU7IT
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Assisted Suicide & Murder Remain Crimes - Even in MAID States (Lorenz Kraus): Lorenz Kraus confessed to killing both his parents in Albany, New York. During two interviews with CBS6, Kraus said he believed ending his parents’ lives was his duty as they… https://t.co/8CBjrh8uvU
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Medical Futility Laws Protect Surrogate Decision Makers by Constraining Clinicians and Hospitals: My latest article is now available in the September 2025 HEC FORUM - "Medical Futility Laws Protect Surrogate Decision Makers by Constraining Clinicians and… https://t.co/sDHRdi8dVT
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My latest -- Medical Futility Laws Protect Surrogate Decision Makers by Constraining Clinicians and Hospitals - #MedicalFutility #PIT #NBT
https://t.co/Y4JfUmduIf
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