Tag: hospice

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, antibiotics, burden, dementia, dementia patients, doula, hospice, killing, nursing, palliative care, patients, suffering, suicide, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

Will We Care For or Kill Dementia Patients?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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I understand that people are terrified of dementia. Believe me, I get it. My mother died of Alzheimer’s. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, assisted suicide, Australia, bioethics, British Columbia, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, Ezekiel Emanuel, health care, health professionals, Hippocratic moral values, Hippocratic Oath, hospice, hospitals, human life, Julian Savulescu, medical conscience, medical school, medical values, medicine, nurses, nursing homes, nursing school, Ontario, patients, transgenderism}

Attacks on Medical Conscience Will Force Doctors to Take Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Reproductive Science

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Destroying conscience will inhibit talented people with particular moral or religious beliefs from entering medical and nursing schools. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, competition, Dame Cecily Saunders, death, Department of Health and Human Services, Dying Well, families, government, health system, hospice, Humanize, living, palliative care, Palliative Medicine Reports, patients, quality, total pain}

As Assisted Suicide Looms, How to Save Hospice

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Often now people approach me after a speech or call in on talk radio to tell me that they do not trust hospice to properly care for their loved ones. Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
April 7, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, angels, Anna Katharina (Käthe) Ehmer, brain, Christianity, Christof Koch, disease, faith and science, Friedrich Happich, hallucination, Heaven, Hell, hospice, jesus, Lazarus, materialism, mind, near-death experiences, prehistoric times, providence, Psychology Today, Purgatory, Roman Catholic, Seattle, terminal lucidity, trauma, Vicki Umipeg}

The Undiscovered Country… Discovered?

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
April 7, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Such cases may have been around since prehistoric times. Some researchers even suggest that they may have given rise to the popular artistic images of angels. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, end of life, Eric Anderson, euthanasia, hospice, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, palliative care, physician-assisted suicide, physicians, podcasts, Richard Weikart, Unnatural Death}

A Physician’s Sacred Duty — To Care or to Kill?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 30, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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As a hospice and palliative care physician for over twenty years, Dr. Howard Glicksman regularly cares for terminally ill patients. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
September 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, brainstem, cell membrane, cells, chemicals, death, diffusion, evolutionary biologists, extracellular fluid, extraterrestrial life, Günter Bechly, hospice, information, just-so stories, liquid water, molecular machines, multicellular organism, neurons, osmosis, proteins, sodium, sodium ions, sodium-potassium pump, Steve Laufmann, The Extracellular Space (series), The Wonder of Water, water, Your Designed Body}

Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

_{Howard Glicksman
September 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

15}

The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
September 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, blood pressure, blood vessels, cell membranes, cellular biology, cytoskeleton, death, DNA, Douglas Axe, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary biology, evolutionists, gene regulatory networks, genes, heart rate, hospice, James Tour, laws of nature, Marcos Eberlin, molecular biology, multicellular organism, muscle cells, RNA, Santa Fe Institute, The Extracellular Space (series), water, Your Designed Body}

Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity

_{Howard Glicksman
September 3, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Technology

10}

It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic. 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
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 28, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Compassion & Choices, death cult, dehydration, Dutch News, dying, harm reduction, hospice, lips, Netherlands, palliative care, self-starving, suicide, Terri Schiavo, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Now Doctors to Help Younger People Commit Suicide by Self-Starvation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 28, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Of course, we in the U.S. have our own such issues, even beyond pernicious VSED advocacy. 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 ›