CDC Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 15, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , assisted suicide, barbiturates, butterfly, CDC, death certificate, Death with Dignity, disease, doctors, dung beetle, medical aid in dying, overdose, statistics, suicide, United States CDC Undercounts Suicide Epidemic by Not Including Assisted Deaths Wesley J. Smith August 15, 2023 Bioethics, Medicine 2 You can call a dung beetle a butterfly, but it remains a dung beetle. The term suicide defines what is done, not why. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date January 6, 2019 CategoriesMedicine Tagged , __k-review, assisted suicide, breast cancer, death certificate, death cult, euthanasia, HIV, legalization, lethal prescription, malpractice, medical conscience, New Mexico, nurse, patients, physician assistant, physicians, telemedicine, terminal illness New Mexico’s Radical Assisted Suicide Legislation Wesley J. Smith January 6, 2019 Medicine 5 The assisted suicide movement is akin to a death cult. The ultimate ideological point isn’t to provide a last resort escape for the imminently dying. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date May 31, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, American Medical Association, assisted suicide, death certificate, democracy, doctors, drugs, euphemism, euthanasia, families, illness, law, lethal injection, lying, medicine, mercy killing, Minnesota, overdose, patients Forced to Lie About Assisted Suicide Wesley J. Smith May 31, 2018 Bioethics, Medicine 3 In its advocacy memes, the assisted-suicide movement often lies, prevaricates, spins, word engineers, and obfuscates. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date November 19, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, assisted suicide, correlation, death certificate, false dichotomy, homicide, physician, statistics, suicide, Switzerland, Washington State Assisted Suicide Should Be Included in Suicide Statistics Wesley J. Smith November 19, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine 2 Here are illustrations from Washington State, and from Switzerland. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date September 15, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, brain death, California, death certificate, Jahi McMath, life, neuroscience, New Jersey, Wesley Smith Wesley Smith Visits Jahi McMath David Klinghoffer September 15, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 2 “I nearly jumped out of my shoes,” Wesley reports. I think I would, too. Read More ›