Tag: Jack Kevorkian

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animals, Australia, Jack Kevorkian, Kathryn Jean Lopez, media, Midwest, nihilism, Philip Nitschke, Sarco, suicide, suicide prevention, Switzerland, The Last Resort, tragedies}

“Doctor” Nitschke’s Suicide Pod Claims Its First Victim

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Was the capsule tested? If so, how? On animals? Who knows? Somehow, these questions don’t get asked. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortionists, anti-humanism, cancer, dairy cows, David Attenborough, diagnosis, ecocide, ecosystem, electricity, food, fuel, humans, Ireland, Jack Kevorkian, Slate, stewardship, terminal illness}

Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, Canada, cerebral palsy, crime, culture, euthanasia, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, manslaughter, murder, Robert Latimer}

Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 22, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

3}

Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 23, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Academy Award, assisted suicide, auto accident, British Columbia, California, COVID-19, euthanasia, hospice, Italy, Jack Kevorkian, polio, quadriplegia, San Francisco Chronicle, UC Berkeley, United States}

Euthanasia’s Cruel Compassion

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 23, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

7}

Federico Carboni wanted suicide because he had no autonomy, saying in an interview, “I am like a boat adrift in the ocean.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 17, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, coronavirus, euthanasia, Germany, Groningen protocol, human experimentation, infanticide, Jack Kevorkian, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, Netherlands, organ donation, pediatricians, quadriplegia, utilitarianism}

The Jack Kevorkian Plague

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

9}

The pathogen I mean is a cultural pandemic, the embrace of doctor-prescribed suicide and of administered homicide. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 15, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, Australia, cancer, elderly people, euthanasia, Jack Kevorkian, National Review, Philip Nitschke, Sarco, suicide pills, The Economist}

Media in a Swoon over Death Doctor and His Suicide Machine

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 15, 2019

Medicine

5}

The man is thoroughly reprehensible. No wonder the mainstream media is attracted to him like a magnet to metal. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 26, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, English, euthanasia, health, human rights, Jack Kevorkian, money, nihilism, suicide, Switzerland}

Deep Suicide Nihilism in Switzerland

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 26, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

A new suicide clinic is advertising its dark services in Switzerland — with “native English speaking” staff to ensure that suicide tourists attend. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, Belgium, British Columbia, Canada, compassion, depression, euthanasia, Jack Kevorkian, killing, Netherlands, Quebec, self-starvation, suffering, suicide}

Depressed Man Euthanized in Canada

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2019

Medicine

4}

I fear many will shrug and say, “The man wanted to die. What else is there to think about?” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, ALS, assisted suicide, Brittany Maynard, cancer, depression, euthanasia, interventions, Jack Kevorkian, Michael Shermer, Netherlands, Oregon, overdose, pain, Scientific American, suicide prevention, terminal illness, University of Toronto}

Scientific American: Prevention Can Benefit Any Suicidal Person

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2018

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

My last hospice patient, Bob, told me that after some months of just wanting to be dead, that he had “come out of the fog.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 13, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, California, Canada, doctor, doctors, euthanasia, hospice, intervention, Jack Kevorkian, morphine, Netherlands, Oregon, palliative care, patients, poison, Quebec, Rhode Island}

How Euthanasia Hurts Palliative Care

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 13, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

One doctor infamously said he didn’t need palliative care when he had euthanasia. Read More ›