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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 13, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted dying, assisted suicide, Canada, Canadians, disabilities, euthanasia, homicide, lethal injection, MAiD, medical assistance in dying}

Euthanasia Is Fifth-Leading Cause of Death in Canada

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 13, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Good grief, our closest cultural cousins are jumping into the abyss with a smile on their collective face. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
August 12, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Austria, Canada, Christianity, death, euthanasia, Germany, Judeo-Christian tradition, lethal injection, Netherlands, nihilism, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Spain, suicide, The Death of Humanity, Yuval Noah Harari}

Unalienable Rights, You Say? Why We Must Resist Yuval Harari’s “Scientific” Nihilism

_{Richard Weikart
August 12, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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History attests that when a culture does not draw a firm line protecting human life, it inevitably progresses to ending lives for all manner of reasons. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, California State University Stanislaus, Canada, Center on Human Exceptionalism, culture of death, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, From Darwin to Hitler, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Netherlands, Richard Weikart, Stony Brook University, Switzerland, The Death of Humanity, United States, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Read More ›

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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 ›