Tag: assisted suicide

Doctor carrying a cooler box for organ transport doctor ensures swift and safe organ transport using specialized cooler box, optimizing life-saving medical procedures

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 17, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Australia, Belgium, bioethics, brain cancer, Canada, cause of death, coma, dead donor rule, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, homicide, medical ethics, mentally ill, natural resources, Netherlands, New Zealand, npr, organ donation, organ-harvesting, patients, recontextualization, Robert D. Truog, Spain, suffering, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Ghoulish Proposal: Killing for Organs Gets a Prestige Endorsement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 17, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Transforming sick and disabled people into a killable caste objectifies them as potential natural resources to be mined or harvested. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 14, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, authority, business, chronic pain, despair, disability, doctors, Gallup, love, media, medicine, moral acceptability, opinions, physician-assisted suicide, poll, popular culture, prevention, rescue, respondents, self-termination, spouse, suicide, terminal sickness}

On Morality of Suicide, a Wide Disparity of Opinion; Why?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 14, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Close to a majority, 49 percent, answered that committing suicide with a doctor’s help is morally acceptable, while 45 percent responded that it is not. Read More ›

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, antipsychotics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, Bioethics (journal), confusion, decision‐making, dehydration, distress, doctors, encouragement, euthanasia, fluids, HIV, palliating doctor, patients, physicians, professional journals, refractory delirium, self-starvation, suffering, suicide, suicide assistance, syringes, terminal sedation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Read More ›

White medical pills or tablets with bottle on black background. Macro side view with copy space

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 12, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abdominal pain, assisted suicide, autopsy, Belgium, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, Brittany Maynard, Canada, compounding pharmacies, disability, Eileen Mihich, Elizabeth Bruenig, Estonia, euthanasia, Germany, Jack Kevorkian, Jess Kaan, Luxembourg, Marjorie Wantz, mental illness, Netherlands, Oregon, pharmacists, pharmacy, poison, psychiatric disorders, rape, slippery slope, suffering, suicide, suicide prevention, The Atlantic, Veronica Torina, Washington State}

How a Mentally Ill Woman Wrote Herself a Lethal Prescription

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 12, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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A troubling look at how systemic gaps enabled a vulnerable woman to obtain lethal drugs unchecked. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, Andrew Coyne, assisted suicide, California, Canada, Donald Trump, Hippocrates, Illinois, illnesses, medical assistance in dying, New York State, Oregon, Vermont, Woody Allen}

United States Is Becoming a Suicide Nation

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 4, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics

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We are well on the way now to becoming more like Canada, where we have seen how the euthanasia virus leads to terrible abuses. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2025

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Tagged
, activism, assisted dying, assisted suicide, children, coercion, disability rights, England, equality, gender ideology, Harry Potter, liberals, physicians, popular culture, prevention, suicidal people, Wales, women}

J. K. Rowling Comes Out Against Legalized Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2025

Arts, Bioethics

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Two of the core tenets of liberalism are (supposed to be) protecting vulnerable people from exploitation and promoting equality among all people. Read More ›

Male doctor holding female patient hand on the hospital bed.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal testing, animals, Anthony Fauci, assisted suicide, bioethics, California, cancer, euthanasia, HIV, human body, illness, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Nuremberg Code, organ farms, Peter Singer, terminal illness, UC San Diego, utilitarianism}

California Research Experiments on People with “Life-Shortening” Conditions

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Human beings, regardless of how sick they are or how long they are expected to live, should never be considered less worthy of protection than are animals. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, assisted suicide, bureaucrats, Canada, chemistry, Chronicles Magazine, culture, Darwinian materialism, death, Denyse O’Leary, epiphenomena, free will, human beings, John Zmirak, love, mental illness, Michael Egnor, mind, neurons, neuroscience, physics, soul, The Immortal Mind, United States, veterans}

Darwinism’s “Simplest” and “Most Destructive Implication”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 8, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Imagine that: killing as a “cost-saving strategy.” I think of Canada more and more as the haunted twin of the United States, and a warning to us. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, americans, aneurysm, assisted suicide, atheism, brain, castration, Christianity, culture, Denyse O’Leary, euthanasia, Heaven, immateriality, immortality, infinity, logic, materialism, materialists, mathematics, media, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neurosurgery, paganism, Pam Reynolds, philosophy, physics, pornography, precision, simplicity, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, surgeons, The Immortal Mind, Western civilization}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Near-Death Experiences and Saving the Culture

_{John Zmirak
September 4, 2025

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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"Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a huge and complex topic. Tens of millions of people have had NDEs and similar spiritual experiences." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, adults, assisted suicide, bioethics, Canada, Daily Mail, disabled, euthanasia, Groningen protocol, infanticide, infants, killing, Netherlands, Peter Singer, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Netherlands Already Allows Infanticide, So Why Not Canada?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

In a more righteous world, allowing infanticide would make the Netherlands a pariah nation, but we have become morally stunted in the West. Read More ›