Xavier Symons

Xavier Symons is Deputy Editor of BioEdge, which is also published by New Media Foundation. He is doing a PhD in bioethics at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne.

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Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, Gen Planned Obsolescence

1 Nov 2019 | FEATURES |  

tags: CRISPR, gene-editing, human enhancement, Julian Savulescu

How will society change when parents enter gene-editing races to improve their kids?

Canada’s euthanasia law under fire after euthanasia of depressed patient

30 Sep 2019 | CAREFUL! |  

tags: Canada, euthanasia, mental illness

61-year-old man was not terminally ill

Pill testing is not the answer to drug deaths at music festivals

25 Sep 2019 | FEATURES |  

tags: Millennials, music festivals, pill testing, recreational drugs

We shouldn’t support a victim culture amongst the post-Millennial generation

Disabled child abandoned in Ukraine shines light on troubled surrogacy industry

26 Aug 2019 | CONJUGALITY |  

tags: commercial surrogacy, surrogacy, Ukraine

Children are being abandoned by their commissioning parents

Assisted dying bill reinforces deadly cultural assumptions

19 Jun 2019 | CAREFUL! |  

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, Victoria

Today euthanasia and assisted suicide become legal in the Australian state of Victoria

Is voluntary stopping of eating and drinking an ethical alternative?

15 Nov 2017 | CAREFUL! |  

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, VSED

Dying of thirst is a terrible way to die

New study casts doubt on effectiveness of euthanasia regulation in the Netherlands

9 Nov 2017 | CAREFUL! |  

tags: euthanasia, Netherlands

Review committees struggle to judge if patients are eligible

Have Aboriginal people been consulted about same-sex marriage?

10 Oct 2017 | CONJUGALITY |  

tags: Aboriginal Australia, same-sex marriage

Minority voices are being ignored by Australia's Establishment

Why can’t we agree on same-sex marriage?

25 Sep 2017 | CONJUGALITY |  

tags: Australia, incommensurability, rhetoric, same-sex marriage

Deep currents within our culture keep the opposing sides from communicating with each other

‘Existential distress’, not pain, drives euthanasia

31 May 2017 | CAREFUL! |  

tags: canada, euthanasia, existential distress

Euthanasia victims in Canada tend to be white and relatively affluent

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