England's Court of Appeal, Civil Division, upheld the lower court decision that, without the necessary written consent of the deceased husband, the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act prohibits the storage of his cryopreserved sperm and its use in artificial insemination by the widow. When doctors retrieved sperm from Stephen Blood, he was already comatose from meningitis and would die ...

Most people think it is wrong to take organs from the dead if the potential donors had previously expressed a wish not to donate. Yet people respond differently to a thought experiment that seems analogous in terms of moral relevance to taking organs without consent. We argue that our reaction to the thought experiment is most representative of our deepest moral convictions. We realize not ever...

Abstract This study aims to identify factors contributing price fluctuations in artworks after an artist’s death. With access information on seller characteristics from a historical dataset of all art auctions that took place London between 1741 and 1913, we investigate how trading patterns network effects at affect sales prices. Following death, capture dynamic find prices decline by 7%. We at...