It Takes a Family: A Bioethicist Explores How to Live and Die Well

The 1992 novel The Children of Men by P.D. James is perhaps best known for its dystopian vision of a world without babies—when the novel opens in 2021, the world has not heard an infant cry in 25 years. The effects of such an infertility plague on society are devastating in every sphere of life, from those that readily come to mind (e.g., schools are shuttered, playgrounds have disappeared, population and economies have shrunk) to those that are less obvious. Among the latter is society’s increasingly bleak view of death and dying.

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