Tag: Jack Kevorkian

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 12, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abdominal pain, assisted suicide, autopsy, Belgium, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, Brittany Maynard, Canada, compounding pharmacies, disability, Eileen Mihich, Elizabeth Bruenig, Estonia, euthanasia, Germany, Jack Kevorkian, Jess Kaan, Luxembourg, Marjorie Wantz, mental illness, Netherlands, Oregon, pharmacists, pharmacy, poison, psychiatric disorders, rape, slippery slope, suffering, suicide, suicide prevention, The Atlantic, Veronica Torina, Washington State}

How a Mentally Ill Woman Wrote Herself a Lethal Prescription

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 12, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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A troubling look at how systemic gaps enabled a vulnerable woman to obtain lethal drugs unchecked. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2024

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

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

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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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, 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

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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, crime, culture, euthanasia, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, murder}

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

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 22, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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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, British Columbia, California, COVID-19, euthanasia, hospice, Italy, Jack Kevorkian, quadriplegia, San Francisco Chronicle, UC Berkeley, United States}

Euthanasia’s Cruel Compassion

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 23, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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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

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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, 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

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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, 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

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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 ›