In a recent piece for the New York Times, atheist utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer placidly explained the value of voluntary assisted suicide beyond the usual requisite medical conditions. His calmness is where we find significant cause for alarm.

Not because one man, along with his co-author and co-podcast-host, is himself unalarmed by it, but because his approach is descriptive of a progressively complacent society at large. When it comes to “decolonization” and the like, not so; but when it comes to technological advances, quite. Singer’s loose bioethics are no longer shocking or contested.

In the piece, Singer presents the case of psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s voluntary assisted suicide, whom Singer interviewed not long before the procedure and resultant death this past March. His overall conclusion is that, “if, after careful reflection, you decide that your life is complete and remain firmly of that view for some time, you are the best judge of what is good for you.”

Singer bases the right........

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