Tag: dehydration

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, antipsychotics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, Bioethics (journal), confusion, decision‐making, dehydration, distress, doctors, encouragement, euthanasia, fluids, HIV, palliating doctor, patients, physicians, professional journals, refractory delirium, self-starvation, suffering, suicide, suicide assistance, syringes, terminal sedation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, Arthur Caplan, bioethics, chemotherapy, competency, dehydration, dementia, food, liquids, medical treatment, medicine, nurse, nursing, nutrients, patients, starvation, surgery, Terri Schiavo}

Should Caregivers Be Forced to Starve Dementia Patients?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

If you did such a thing to a dog, you would go to jail. When will we say, “Enough. This is too much to ask”? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
April 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apoptosis, Bacillus subtilis, biological systems, chromosome, cortex, dehydration, heat, Salmonella, sporulation, UV radiation}

Sporulation: Another Example of a Transcriptional Hierarchy

_{Jonathan McLatchie
April 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Examples like this suggest the existence of a master-architect behind biological systems. 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, culture of death, dehydration, disability rights, euthanasia, fluids, food, gender-affirming care, Humanize, Michael Schiavo, parents, pro-life movement, Roe v. Wade, self-starvation and dehydration, Terri Schiavo, vaccine mandates, water}

Schiavo Case Was a Terrible Cultural Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 26, 2025

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting

4}

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
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abuse, assisted suicide, dehydration, dementia, disabilities, doctors, elderly, euthanasia, illness, laws, medical aid in dying, mentally ill, public policy, self-starvation, Thaddeus Mason Pope, VSED}

Self-Starvation to Qualify for Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Once again, the assisted-suicide movement shows itself to be public-policy promise breakers of the most egregious kind and raw zealots for the death agenda. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 28, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, dehydration, dying, harm reduction, hospice, lips, Netherlands, palliative care, suicide, Terri Schiavo, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Now Doctors to Help Younger People Commit Suicide by Self-Starvation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 28, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Of course, we in the U.S. have our own such issues, even beyond pernicious VSED advocacy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, advance directive, California, Canada, Colorado, compassion, Connecticut, dehydration, disabilities, euthanasia, Hawaii, heart, human life, kidneys, liver, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, mental illness, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, new york, nihilism, Oregon, organ transplant, Terri Schiavo, Vermont, VSED}

A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

5}

A legal battle raged for several years during which the country agonized and argued about the right and moral course. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, dehydration, elderly, euthanasia, hospice, reporters, starvation, suicide, Terri Schiavo, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

We Aren’t an Anti-Suicide Culture Anymore

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 1, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

The assisted-suicide movement boosts suicide in many forms. One of the most insidious is known in euthanasia parlance as VSED. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Psychology
Tagged
, amino acids, animation, ATP, dehydration, DNA, double helix, early Earth, enzyme, evolution, genomes, homochirality, hydration, intelligent design, intelligent designer, molecular machines, replication, scientific materialism, supercoiling, topoisomerases, transcription}

New Animation on Topoisomerase Demonstrates Irrationality of Denying Design Evidence in Biology

_{Brian Miller
March 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Psychology

7}

Replication or transcription of DNA stresses the macromolecule, resulting in supercoiling. Topoisomerase II relieves the stress. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, Are We Here to Re-Create Ourselves?, blood pressure, brain, breathing, carbon dioxide, Center for Science and Culture, circulation, death, dehydration, Discovery Institute, DNA, doctor, Doctor's Diary (series), dying, exercise, fluids, foresight, health, heartbeat, infection, intelligent design, kidneys, liver, oxygen, purpose, red blood cells, redundancy, running}

Doctor’s Diary: The Ultimate Engineer

_{Geoffrey Simmons
February 28, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

5}

The 4-4-4 rule says that we would perish without oxygen for four minutes, water for four days, or food for four weeks. Read More ›