Death enhancement drugs?

17 10 2008

Perhaps taking a cue from Aldous Huxley, who asked his wife, Laura, to inject him with LSD as he ascended from this mortal plane, Robin Mackenzie, director of medical law and ethics at the University of Kent, is proclaimming the rights of the dying, specifically in relation to the use of entheogens like psilocybin, to sacralize the experience of death.

More from The Independent:   Ethics expert calls for drugs to ‘enhance’ death

[related:   Huxley's LSD death-bed trip]

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