Tag: dying

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, Annaka Harris, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, biochemists, caterpillar, cats, cells, cocooning, cognition, Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, consciousness, Dogs, dying, environments, Epoch Times, evolution, glutamate, hierarchy, horses, human nervous system, iai.tv, James Shapiro, leaves, Makai Elías Calles, mating, natural selection, neurons, neurotransmitters, octopus, plant consciousness, plants, self-awareness, stripping fruit trees, Thomas Nagel, University of Chicago}

Evolutionary Lens Deterred Scientists from Considering Plant Cognition

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 25, 2026

Biology, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s a familiar concept: the long, slow march from mud to mind meant that only toward the upper tier would we find such developments as cognition. Read More ›

Operation room surgery in hospital, blurred figures. Professional treatment and professional conduct concept.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Belgium, bioethics, Canada, Canadian media, China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese doctors, dead donor rule, dying, Epoch Times, Falun Gong, instrumentalization, Jan Jekielek, Killed to Order, lethal injection, medicine, Netherlands, Noelia Castillo Ramos, organ harvesting, political prisoners, suicide, surgery, utilitarianism, Uygur Muslims, Western medicine}

In Drift Toward Instrumentalizing Humans, Western Medicine Follows China

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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At least in some sense, once the girl was deemed killable, her body parts became the primary factor in her care. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 7, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, albumin, blood, capillaries, cell death, Darwinian narrative, death, dying, engineering, Eric Anderson, hormones, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, laws of nature, life, liver, living systems, minerals, physics, podcast, proteins, Steve Laufmann, water, Your Designed Body}

How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Thrive

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 7, 2026

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? Read More ›

Cave with cave drawings. Cartoon mountain scene background Primitive cave paintings. ancient petroglyphs.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 22, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
Psychology
Tagged
, Antony Flew, artifacts, brain, cave art, death, dying, human beings, Michael Egnor, Neanderthals, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Ohio State University, paleontology, pseudoscience, psychology, Psychology Today, The Immortal Mind, There Is a God}

In Study of Human Psychology, the Power of “Maybe”

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 22, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology, Psychology

5}

This is not science and is not a good look for a psychology that purports to have some relationship with science. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, brain, dementia, dying, immaterial powers, justice, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, moral choice, music, paradoxical lucidity, perception, reason, Stony Brook University, Supreme Court, The Immortal Mind, veterans}

Dementia Hints That the Brain Is Not All There Is to the Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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People with dementia have severe memory issues, along with motor, perception, and emotional disabilities, and that curtails their powers of reason. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 17, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, animal, behavior, brain, death, disintegration, dying, ethics, evil, good, Human, human body, human soul, immortality, justice, mind, near-death experiences, Peter Kreeft, physical world, rational soul, terminal lucidity}

Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, California, Canada, death, doctors, dying, MAiD, medical ethics, oncology, patients}

MDs Support Expanding Assisted Suicide Beyond the Terminally Ill

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

The myth that legal assisted suicide is about terminal illness is becoming harder to swallow. Evidence can be found in a recent survey. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Charlotte Martial, death, drugs, dying, near-death experiences, neuroscience, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Steve Taylor}

Near-Death Experiences Compared to Drug Trips

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 17, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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There is an effort underway to fully naturalize NDEs — that is, to make them something that just happens to the traumatized brain. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 15, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, autistism, Canada, Compassion and Choices, death, dying, euthanasia, Hemlock Society, hospice, slippery slope, suicide, VSED}

Euthanize Me, or I’ll Starve Myself to Death

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 15, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Allowing euthanasia and/or assisted suicide unleashes drastic desires in suffering individuals. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, brain, Bruce Greyson, cancel culture, death, dementia, dying, Gary Habermas, Minding the Brain, near-death experiences, philosophers, Psychology Today, Research, terminal lucidity}

A Philosopher Investigates Near-Death Experiences

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Monika Mandoki did not experience efforts to get her canceled. That may be for several reasons. Read More ›