Tag: culture of death

Dimly lit laboratory with chemicals and equipment in a vintage, cluttered room

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, activists, biotech, biotechnology, censorship, culture of death, dignity, embryos, environmentalism, fetal farming, gender dysphoria, gender ideology, genetic engineering, hospitals, human exceptionalism, human life, labs, moral responsibility, nature rights, organ harvesting, totalitarianism, unborn, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith: Frightening Abuses of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 31, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

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Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 26, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abortion, advance directive, Arthur Caplan, assisted suicide, Bobby Schindler, culture of death, dehydration, disability rights, Dominic Sisti, euthanasia, fluids, food, gender-affirming care, Hastings Center, Humanize, Michael Schiavo, parents, pro-life movement, Roe v. Wade, self-starvation and dehydration, siblings, sustenance, Terri Schiavo, Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, vaccine mandates, water}

Schiavo Case Was a Terrible Cultural Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 26, 2025

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting

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The case elevated the culture of death into a conflagration. It boosted the passage of assisted suicide laws. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, California State University Stanislaus, Canada, Center on Human Exceptionalism, culture of death, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, From Darwin to Hitler, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Netherlands, Richard Weikart, Stony Brook University, Switzerland, The Death of Humanity, United States, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 2, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, “aid-in-dying”, bioethicists, confidentiality, culture of death, Hippocratic Oath, hospital, ideology, interventions, nurses, patients, progressivism, suicide, suicide prevention}

So Now Will Nurses Only Prevent Some Suicides?

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

Here’s the problem. The leadership of organized medicine and mainstream bioethicists are increasingly joining the progressive ideological coalition. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 2, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, baby, birth, conception, culture, culture of death, darkness, doctors, infanticide, Nebraska, newborns, patients, right to life, U.S. Senate, woman}

Darkness Rising: As It Turns Out, Not All Newborns Have a Right to Life

_{Michael Egnor
March 2, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

The culture of death — the dehumanization of the vulnerable and the unwanted — is fast upon us. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 23, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, "rational suicide", aging, assisted suicide, atomization, culture of death, District of Columbia, elder suicide, legalization, loneliness, United States}

How Contemporary Society Promotes Elder Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 23, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

3}

Two UCSF medical professors warn about increasing “rational” elder suicides. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assault, assisted suicide, battery, Belgium, crime, culture of death, despair, homicide, medicine, murder, psychiatry, The Guardian}

The Story of Mark van Dongen

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

This is an awful story but it shows how the assisted suicide movement greatly harms the culture and despairing individuals at their times of greatest vulnerability. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 8, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, aging, assisted suicide, culture of death, doctors, Dutch News, elderly, euthanasia, mentally ill, Netherlands, suicide}

Because There Can Never Be Enough Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 8, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

The only way anyone in the Netherlands will care about the resulting deaths is if they test this substance on dogs. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 11, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, culture of death, First Things, Jack Kevorkian, media, Planned Parenthood, Terri Schiavo, Wesley J. Smith}

Unmasking the Culture of Death

_{David Klinghoffer
June 11, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

Observe the now familiar evolution -- guided by the media and “bioethicists” -- of public sentiment, from outrage to apathy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 21, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __tedited, culture of death, culture of life, euthanasia, geriatric suicide, Health & Wellness, Hemlock Society, legislation, New York Times, palliative care, self-starvation and dehydration, VSED}

New York Times Pushes Suicide by Starvation

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2016

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Geriatric depression is a terrible problem in our society. Read More ›