Overview

• UNAM, its Faculty of Medicine and the Programa Universitario de Bioética confirmed his death and hailed his role in advancing bioethics in Mexico.
• He founded the Seminario Permanente de Bioética at UNAM and held leading roles in the Colegio de Bioética as a long-serving professor and public intellectual.
• Colleagues and cultural figures, including Héctor Aguilar Camín and Enrique Krauze, issued tributes highlighting his humanist practice and mentorship.
• Media recount a prolific oeuvre of more than twenty books, including works on euthanasia and mourning and multiple collaborations with artist Vicente Rojo.
• Friends told MILENIO he died after a cancer diagnosis, and the outlet reported his interment at the Panteón Israelita in Mexico City.