Tag: elderly

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, bioethics, culture, Daniel Kahneman, disabilities, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, family, friendship, geriatric suicide, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, mentally ill, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Peter Singer, philosophers, Princeton University, suicide, Switzerland, The Atlantic}

Depraved: New York Times Pushes Assisted Suicide for the Elderly

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 16, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

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The victims of such a nihilistic mindset will be the elderly, people with disabilities, the mentally ill, and the seriously sick in an ever-widening swath. 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
December 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, caregivers, 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
Michael Egnor

Date
April 7, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Psychology
Sociology
Tagged
, __k-review, borders, calculus, Congress, coronavirus, COVID-19, economics, elderly, epidemiology, euthanasia, experts, health, neurosurgeon, Politics, President, probabilities, public policy, scientists, social distancing, Thomas Aquinas, triage}

Balancing Lives, Economics, and Public Policy in This Plague

_{Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine, Psychology, Sociology

7}

Our political policy makers (the President, Congress and the Senate, governors, etc.) should make their calculus transparent. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 29, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __edited, "rational suicide", AIDS, assisted suicide, Associated Press, culture, elder suicide, elderly, euthanasia, Kaiser Health News, leukemia, New Jersey, New York Times, palliative care, Philadelphia, suicide, taboos, University of Rochester, Washington Post}

Washington Post Boosts Elderly “Rational Suicide”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2019

Bioethics, Science Reporting

5}

The story ends with the phone number of a suicide prevention hotline. That’s just a sop after potentially putting lethal ideas into readers’ heads. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 23, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, aging, Alzheimer’s, cancer, death, disease, duty to die, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, Hastings Center Report, health, health insurance, John Hardwig, life, medical care, medicine, rationing, University of Illinois, utilitarianism}

A “Healthspan” Duty to Die for the Elderly?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 23, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

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
September 6, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, contagion, elderly, Lehigh University, Mexico, New York Times, newspapers, suicide}

Promoting “Rational” Suicide by the Elderly

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 6, 2018

Bioethics

5}

September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. I used to call the annual event “Invisible Suicide Prevention Day” because it is so often ignored in major media. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 18, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Bloomberg, elderly, health care, health-care rationing, terminal illness}

Stop Blaming Elderly and Terminally Ill for Our Health-Care Spending Problems

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 18, 2018

Medicine

3}

There is a widely believed myth that the elderly and dying take up a huge amount of the overall health-care budget. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 27, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, British Columbia, Canada, dehydration, diabetes, doctor, elderly, euthanasia, insulin, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, mentally ill, Oregon, patients, starvation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Qualifying for Euthanasia by Self-Starvation in Canada

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 27, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Canada has embraced a positive “right to die.” Here is what happens once that Rubicon is crossed. 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, Kaiser Health News, 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 ›