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As Assisted Suicide Looms, How to Save Hospice

Often now people approach me after a speech or call in on talk radio to tell me that they do not trust hospice to properly care for their loved ones. Read More ›
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Bioethics Becomes Just Another Social-Justice Political Movement

A new study illustrates how bioethics is not (and, indeed, never has been) an area of objective professional expertise. Read More ›
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“Expedience Bioethics” Busts Moral Limits

When embryonic research first started, we were told that there would be a strict 14-day limit on researching embryos in petri dishes. Read More ›
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Schiavo Case Was a Terrible Cultural Tipping Point

The case elevated the culture of death into a conflagration. It boosted the passage of assisted suicide laws. Read More ›
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Medical Journal Has a Ghoulish Proposal: Conjoining Euthanasia with Organ Harvesting

This much is clear: We are far down the road of objectifying the bodies of suicidal people to permit unethical acts. Read More ›
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A Physician’s Sacred Duty — To Care or to Kill?

As a hospice and palliative care physician for over twenty years, Dr. Howard Glicksman regularly cares for terminally ill patients. Read More ›
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Sagan’s “Star Stuff” and the Suicide Pod

If life is nothing more than material or “stuff,” why not allow people to recycle themselves when they feel their useful lifespan has come to an end? Read More ›
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For Suicide, Disguised “Public Health” Policies Aren’t the Solution

The authors even suggest regulations controlling the manufacture of ceiling fans because some people have used the mechanisms to hang themselves. Read More ›
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The Contradiction in Peter Singer’s Worldview

He never provides any reason why rationality, self-consciousness, and the ability to plan the future have any value. Read More ›
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Here Comes “Non-Medical” Assisted Suicide

Certain strains of the euthanasia-advocacy movement believe doctors don’t need to be involved when someone wants to die. Read More ›

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