Paul T. Menzel

Paul T. Menzel, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Pacific Lutheran University. He has published widely on moral questions in health economics and health policy, including Strong Medicine: The Ethical Rationing of Health Care (Oxford, 1990) and Prevention vs. Treatment: What's the Right Balance? (Oxford, 2012, with Halley Faust).

In recent years he has written extensively on end-of-life issues, including physician-assisted death, advanced directives for dementia, and voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. With Timothy Quill, Thaddeus Pope, and Judith Schwarz, he is co-editor of Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely Available Option for Hastening Death (Oxford, 2021).

Dr. Menzel has been a visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Center-Bellagio, the Brocher Foundation-Geneva, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Monash Bioethics Centre. He is a Work Group member for the Hastings Center's project on end-of-life choices in dementia and a member of the Advisory Board of The Completed Life Initiative.