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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, assisted suicide, coronavirus, COVID-19, despair, doctors, New Jersey, public policy, suicide prevention}

New Jersey’s Suicide Confusion

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 12, 2020

Bioethics

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With COVID-19, New Jersey officials are worried about a spike in suicide caused by the shutdown. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, assisted suicide, dementia, despair, disabilities, doctors, family, infanticide, killing, legislation, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, organ harvesting, patients, Reuters}

Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 21, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 9, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, addiction, assisted suicide, cancer, despair, fentanyl, New York Times, prosperity, suicide}

Fewer “Deaths of Despair” Increase U.S. Life Expectancy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 9, 2020

Bioethics

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Unstated, but perhaps a contributing factor, was the increasing prosperity we have enjoyed in country in recent years. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 20, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, addiction, Bill Nye, Center for Science and Culture, despair, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, intelligent design, James Tour, Jay Richards, Jeffrey Schwartz, materialism, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Science Uprising, scientific racism, Stephen Meyer, suicide}

Science Uprising — An Edgy New Video Series, Coming June 3

_{David Klinghoffer
May 20, 2019

Intelligent Design

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The old have failed the young. Hate-driven shootings in schools and houses of worship, rising suicide and addiction rates — these are the most dramatic indications. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 29, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, addiction, Alzheimer’s, Belgium, despair, euthanasia, fear, killing, loneliness, organ donation, psychiatric disorders, schizophrenia, suffering, suicide}

Euthanasia’s Moral Abyss — Belgian Edition

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 29, 2018

Bioethics

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The carnage so bloodlessly described in the Belgian report demonstrates vividly the consequences to a society when it generally accepts killing as a proper answer to human suffering. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 25, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, #GivingTuesday, Ann Gauger, Center for Science and Culture, despair, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolution, Evolution News, holiday season, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Michael Medved, Paul Nelson, Richard Sternberg, Science Uprising, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution}

#GivingTuesday Is This Week — Please Get Ready to Give

_{David Klinghoffer
November 25, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s a day to think about things that really matter, like countering the message of despair that twines around advocacy of the theory of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, 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

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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
October 8, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, Belgium, despair, mental illness, natural resources, Netherlands, organ donation, physician, suicide, suicide prevention, terminal illness}

Opening a Door to Assisted Suicide Organ Donors

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 8, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

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We should not look at the suicidal as natural resources. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 23, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, Chile, despair, euthanasia, First Things, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Oregon, UC Irvine}

“Dying of Despair”

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 23, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

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I began my work against assisted suicide in 1993. In the intervening years, I have witnessed a very disturbing change. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 12, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Canada, compassion, despair, euthanasia, Oregon}

Euthanasia Abandons Despairing People to Their Worst Fears

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 12, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

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Studies from Oregon and Canada show that the request to die is overwhelmingly caused by such anguish. Read More ›