Tag: ALS

Conceptual image of a large stone in the shape of the human brain

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, ALS, animals, apes, birds, brain mapping, common sense, consciousness, Doctor's Diary (series), dolphins, elephants, evolution, functional MRI, inner speech, intelligent design, Michael Egnor, motor cortex, octopuses, paralysis, soul, speech, Stanford University, whales}

Doctor’s Diary: To Whom Are You Talking When You Talk to Yourself?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 19, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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A comment by a national radio show host recently caught my attention. “So, I said to myself, SELF! What would you do under these circumstances?” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 11, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, ALS, altruism, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, death, euthanasia, Groningen protocol, humanity, infanticide, kidney, surgeons, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, vultures}

“Surgeons as ‘Vultures’”: Medical Journal Pushes Harvesting Kidneys from Dying Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 11, 2020

Medicine

4}

When organ-transplant medicine was launched, a wary society was solemnly promised that organs would be taken only from the dead. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 15, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, ALS, Belgium, Canada, doctor, euthanasia, Globe and Mail, Hippocratic Oath, MAiD, medical aid in dying, mental illness, Netherlands, nurse practitioner, Ontario, pediatricians}

Quebec Court Declares Euthanasia “Foreseeable Death” Limitation Unconstitutional

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 15, 2019

Medicine

4}

A few years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada conjured a positive right in the Canadian Charter (constitution) to euthanasia. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, ALS, assisted suicide, cancer, depression, euthanasia, interventions, Jack Kevorkian, Michael Shermer, Netherlands, Oregon, overdose, pain, Scientific American, suicide prevention, terminal illness, University of Toronto}

Scientific American: Prevention Can Benefit Any Suicidal Person

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2018

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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My last hospice patient, Bob, told me that after some months of just wanting to be dead, that he had “come out of the fog.” Read More ›