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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, ancient Greece, animals, assisted suicide, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Anderson, euthanasia, healing, human life, humans, killing, Nazi Germany, Richard Weikart, Unnatural Death}

Richard Weikart: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 6, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Dr. Weikart's book is a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide from ancient Greece to today. Read More ›

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Date
August 5, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, assisted suicide, death, despair, Discovery Institute Press, Enlightenment, euthanasia, Greeks, history, Howard Glicksman, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, materialism, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Peter Singer, Richard Weikart, Socrates, suffering, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

How Did We Get Here? New Book by Richard Weikart Tracks Rise of the Culture of Death

_{Science & Culture
August 5, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

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The Judeo-Christian tradition encouraged a culture of life, but the secular Enlightenment and Darwinian materialism have tugged us in a different direction. 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

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

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted dying, assisted suicide, dementia, disabilities, economics, euthanasia, illnesses, logic, morality, policy}

Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 5, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Come on, Granny! Time to swallow the pills. We need your money to send Junior to college. 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

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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
November 1, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, autism, doctors, eugenics, euthanasia, Netherlands, patients, psychiatry, University of British Columbia}

Euthanasia for Autism, Intellectual Disabilities in the Netherlands

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 1, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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“Helping people with autism and intellectual disabilities to die is essentially eugenics.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 28, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Brandeis University, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, honey, MAiD, medical aid in dying, medication, mercy killing, New York Times, nurse practitioners, patients, suicide, University of Colorado}

How “Medical Aid in Dying” Became the Euphemism of Choice for Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 28, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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When radical policies are proposed, the first step is to change the lexicon to make it seem less extreme, even mundane. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Canada, consciousness, dementia, euthanasia, memory, neurobiology, neuroscience, paradoxical lucidity, Stony Brook University}

Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The phenomenon is called "paradoxical lucidity" because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abandonment, Canada, compassion, disability, doctors, euthanasia, health care, housing, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, medicine, nurse practitioners, Ontario, PTSD, quadriplegia, veterans}

Canadian Disabled Woman Opts for Euthanasia Because She Can’t Get Timely Assistance

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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I am hearing about this kind of abandonment much more often since Canada loosened its euthanasia eligibility requirements. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, Canada, euthanasia, experts, health care, homelessness, housing, Journal of Medical Ethics, laws, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, popular culture, poverty, regulations, suffering, United States}

Bioethicists: Killing Okay for “Unjust Social Conditions”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 14, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

I can’t imagine this being true ten years ago before euthanasia became legal. Euthanasia mutates a society’s soul. Read More ›