Tag: Death with Dignity

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 17, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ancestors, blackmail, Death with Dignity, flourishing, forests, groves, Harvard Law School, human thriving, humans, indigenous people, irrationality, lawfare, life cycles, Moon, mysticism, nature, nature rights, neo-paganism, nutrients, oceans, Peruvian bees, property, rivers, soil, students, temperature, toolkit, tree rights, universities, University of Sussex, water, woodlands}

In Latest Statement from a University, Tree Rights Advocacy Is Based on Irrationality

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2026

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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We protect trees and woodlands with laws and regulations without resorting to irrational ideological justifications and materially impeding human thriving. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, barbiturates, butterfly, CDC, death certificate, Death with Dignity, disease, doctors, 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

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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 ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, assisted suicide, barbiturates, COVID-19, death, Death with Dignity, doctors, euthanasia, lethal injection, nurse practitioners, pandemic, patients, suicide, telemedicine, terminal illness}

Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 24, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 5, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, California, Canada, Colorado, Daily Mail, Death with Dignity, doctors, Germany, Netherlands, Oregon, Portland, Skype, suicide, Switzerland, Vermont, Zoom}

Suicide Tourism Comes to Oregon

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 5, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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Some jurisdictions are getting there faster and some slower. But that tide only flows in one direction. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 11, 2022

Categories
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, Canada, COVID-19, Daily Mail, death, Death with Dignity, doctor, homelessness, lethal injection, lockdown, MAiD, media, medical assistance in dying, poverty, PTSD}

Bioethics: In Canada, Medically Assisted Death Is a Solution for Poverty

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 11, 2022

Medicine, Science

3}

In the U.S., too, many assisted suicides are facilitated by doctors who have not treated the patient. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 16, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Canada, Daily Mail, Death with Dignity, diabetes, doctors, euthanasia, homicide, hospital, lethal injection, media, nihilism, nurses, suicide, values}

At the Euthanasia Party

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 16, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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Is this kind of thing right or wrong? Some may see it as empowering, dying “his own way,” as the media continually put it. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 1, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, death, Death with Dignity, drugs, Food and Drug Administration, fraud, health insurance, hospice, illness, law, medication, medicine, patients, stem cells}

The Downsides of “Right to Try”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 1, 2018

Medicine

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A lot of people are cheering the law enacted recently, which permits terminally ill people access to experimental drugs not yet approved by the FDA. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 8, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, "rational suicide", assisted suicide, death, Death with Dignity, documentary, elderly, Hemlock Society, mental illness, Oregon, parents, terminal illness}

Media Celebrate Elderly Couple’s Joint Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 8, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

If this keeps up, there will be a social expectation created that suicide is the right and proper way out — and not just for those with terminal illnesses. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 17, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Death with Dignity, dignity, disabilities, disabled, dying, elderly, isolation, love, New York Times, Oregon, pain, poison}

Bruni “Gets It” on Disability Bias — Except for Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 17, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

When New York Times columnist Frank Bruni isn’t driving me nuts, it’s usually because he’s on vacation from his (very well written) column. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 3, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, Alzheimer’s, Compassion and Choices, Death with Dignity, dementia, elderly people, Hemlock Society, hypothermia, suffering, USA Today, voluntary stop eating and drinking}

Another Egregious Form of “Death with Dignity”

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 3, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

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My mother died of Alzheimer’s in my home last year. My uncle died of it several years ago. Believe me, I know what Alzheimer’s is like. Read More ›