John Baxter's Blog from Wincanton

Click on Poems for this revised version.

More a collection of papers, poems and diagrams than a blog – which so easily turns into wittering away.  This site seems a good way of exposing what I have written and thought hard about. I am always ready to have my views questioned or criticised – or even agreed with. To do so email john@johnbaxter.org. For a detailed guide to the content of the site go to About Me.

Go to Ethical Issues and you will find quite a long paper on death and the right to choose when to die as we find ourselves facing what some have called the “dementia tsunami.” It is written from a non-theist humanist perspective, and shows how Buddhist practice and teaching has influenced my thinking, though some Buddhists may not agree with it. The issues raised I think affect us all.  email me with your comments.   In fact since writing this I find suddenly the topic is being widely explored from a variety of angles.