Tag: fluids

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, antipsychotics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, Bioethics (journal), confusion, decision‐making, dehydration, distress, doctors, encouragement, euthanasia, fluids, HIV, palliating doctor, patients, physicians, professional journals, refractory delirium, self-starvation, suffering, suicide, suicide assistance, syringes, terminal sedation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 26, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abortion, advance directive, Arthur Caplan, assisted suicide, culture of death, dehydration, disability rights, euthanasia, fluids, food, gender-affirming care, Humanize, Michael Schiavo, parents, pro-life movement, Roe v. Wade, self-starvation and dehydration, Terri Schiavo, vaccine mandates, water}

Schiavo Case Was a Terrible Cultural Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 26, 2025

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting

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The case elevated the culture of death into a conflagration. It boosted the passage of assisted suicide laws. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 24, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, agnostics, blood, capillaries, cells, circulation, earth, elements, evaporation, extraterrestrial intelligence, fitness, fluids, gas, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, microbiology, oxygen, skin, temperature, The Wonder of Water, tissues, viscosity, water}

In the Case of Water, an Inference to Intelligent Design Is Independent of Any Religious Claim

_{Michael Denton
July 24, 2024

Biochemistry, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

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In this article I will explain why, as someone who is agnostic about many religious claims, I find the inference to intelligent design impossible to refuse. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, Are We Here to Re-Create Ourselves?, blood pressure, brain, breathing, carbon dioxide, Center for Science and Culture, circulation, death, dehydration, Discovery Institute, DNA, doctor, Doctor's Diary (series), dying, exercise, fluids, foresight, health, heartbeat, infection, intelligent design, kidneys, liver, oxygen, purpose, red blood cells, redundancy, running}

Doctor’s Diary: The Ultimate Engineer

_{Geoffrey Simmons
February 28, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

5}

The 4-4-4 rule says that we would perish without oxygen for four minutes, water for four days, or food for four weeks. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, advance directive, assisted suicide, Compassion and Choices, dementia, doctors, dying, eating, euthanasia, fluids, food, Hemlock Society, interpretation, nurses, patients, treatment}

“Starve Me” Advance Directive Would Be Immoral

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 8, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Many of these provisions are, to say the least, subject to interpretation. And people with dementia may refuse food one meal, and accept the next. Read More ›