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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 23, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, aging, Alzheimer’s, cancer, death, disease, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, health, health insurance, life, medical care, medicine, University of Illinois, utilitarianism}

A “Healthspan” Duty to Die for the Elderly?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 23, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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University of Illinois professor S. Jay Olshansky argues that it is time to shift medicine’s focus — starting at age 65 — away from “life extension.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Canada, compassion, culture, death, disability, doctors, Justin Trudeau, murder, trial}

Murderer Seeks Clemency with Inventive “Right to Die” Argument

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 26, 2018

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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In 1993, while most of his family was away at church, Robert Latimer took his 12-year-old daughter Tracy, disabled by cerebral palsy, out to the barn. 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
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 23, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Catholicism and Evolution, criminal justice, Darwin's Black Box, death, decay, Douglas Axe, eyeglasses, Father Michael Chaberek, flat earth, Forensics, human eye, intelligent design, John Jay College, John Paul II, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, maxillary sinus, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nathan Lents, neurosurgeon, physiology, Pope Francis, Stephen Meyer, suffering, testicles, Wall Street Journal, William A. Dembski}

Straw Man: Nathan Lents Versus the Theory of Perfect Design

_{David Klinghoffer
May 23, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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True, things go wrong with our bodies, with results that range from the tragic to the merely expensive or inconvenient. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 18, 2018

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Life Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, bacteria, cognition, Darwinian evolution, death, ID the Future, intentionality, J. Scott Turner, life, machinery, materialism, microscopes, podcast, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, resources, Rob Crowther, robot, vitalism}

Biologist Scott Turner: What Is Life? And Other Simple Questions

_{David Klinghoffer
March 18, 2018

Biology, Chemistry, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Life Sciences, Physics

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The picture of life that biologist Scott Turner sketches in his recent book is remarkable, and not easy to fully take aboard in your mind. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 11, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, death, Department of Health and Human Services, euthanasia, Hemlock Society, life, medical aid in dying, medicine, nurses, patients, pharmacists, physicians, Vermont}

Assisted-Suicide Pushers Want Forced MD Participation

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 11, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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Sometimes they show their true hands. 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

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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
February 25, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, administrators, assisted suicide, British Columbia, Canada, death, dignity, euthanasia, hospice, killing, London, MAiD, medicine, palliative care, patients}

Canadian Hospice Says No to Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 25, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Cecily Saunders, who created the modern hospice movement, stood steadfastly against assisted-suicide legalization. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 5, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, anthropocentrism, Big Think, Bill Nye, death, evolution, Francis Collins, human dignity, intelligent design, National Review Online, science, University College London, Wesley Smith}

A New Low for Evolutionary Ethics

_{David Klinghoffer
December 5, 2017

Bioethics, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Philosophy

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Understand that Big Think is not an obscure web journal by and for a lunatic fringe. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 30, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Bruce Buff, consciousness, Dan Brown, Darwinian theory, death, emergence, Halloween, intelligent design, materialism, mortality, MRI, National Review Online, neurons, physicalism, soul, supernatural, thriller}

Bruce Buff and Robert Spitzer on All Hallows’ Eve — Materialism as Reality-Denial

_{David Klinghoffer
October 30, 2017

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

5}

“Is the soul real? Or is it just an old construct used to explain what a scientifically illiterate society could not?” Read More ›