despair Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date October 14, 2018 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, ALS, assisted suicide, Brittany Maynard, 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 4 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 ›
dignity Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date February 10, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Alzheimer’s, anxiety, assisted suicide, Brittany Maynard, CNN, dignity, hospice, illness, old age, suffering, suicide Defining Dignity Up Wesley J. Smith February 10, 2018 Bioethics, Medicine 6 When you look at the studies of why people decide to commit assisted suicide or be euthanized, a consistent pattern emerges. Read More ›
despair Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 23, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __edited, assisted suicide, Brittany Maynard, Chile, despair, euthanasia, First Things, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Oregon, UC Irvine, washington “Dying of Despair” Wesley J. Smith August 23, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine 5 I began my work against assisted suicide in 1993. In the intervening years, I have witnessed a very disturbing change. Read More ›
