Tag: killing

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, dementia, 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

2}

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
August 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, adults, assisted suicide, bioethics, Canada, Daily Mail, disabled, euthanasia, Groningen protocol, infanticide, infants, killing, Netherlands, Peter Singer, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Netherlands Already Allows Infanticide, So Why Not Canada?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

In a more righteous world, allowing infanticide would make the Netherlands a pariah nation, but we have become morally stunted in the West. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Australia, children, death, doctors, euthanasia, Germany, killing, medical futility, medicine, Philip Nitschke, suicide, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

Here Comes “Non-Medical” Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 6, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

4}

Certain strains of the euthanasia-advocacy movement believe doctors don’t need to be involved when someone wants to die. 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

2}

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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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Academy Award, artificial intelligence, Bible, computer scientists, Discovery Institute, futurists, Google, Hamas, Isaiah, Judeo-Christian tradition, killing, Michael Keas, morality, Ray Kurzweil, Seattle, Singularity, Skynet, The Imitation Game, The Matrix, transhumanism, Turing test}

Ray Kurzweil Predicts: The “Singularity” by 2045

_{Casey Luskin
November 8, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

8}

Under Kurzweil’s transhumanist vision of the future, AI promises us superhuman capabilities complete with heaven on earth and eternal life. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Canada, compassion, crime, Daily Mail, death, dignity, euthanasia, killing, MAiD, organ harvesting, organs, patients, PTSD, punishment, Spain, suffering, veterans}

Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 25, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 12, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, American Medical Association, autonomy, Dobbs v. Jackson, doctor, execution, health care, homicide, killing, law, medicine, mother, patients}

Why Abortion Is Not Health Care

_{Michael Egnor
August 12, 2022

Ethics, Medicine, Science

3}

Consider that abortion is a procedure in which death is the outcome that defines success. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 2, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, abortionists, babies, consent, Dobbs v. Jackson, doctors, execution, fetus, health, heart disease, incompetence, killing, laws, medicine, mothers, negligence, Roe v. Wade, suicide, unborn}

Will Laws Protecting the Unborn Endanger Mothers?

_{Michael Egnor
August 2, 2022

Ethics, Medicine, Science

6}

A fallacy used by abortionists and their allies is that doctors will be handicapped by having to comply with the law applicable to the care of their patients. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 12, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, Belgium, Canada, culture, dementia, disability, disease, doctors, euthanasia, illness, killing, Netherlands, nurse practitioner, patients}

Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 12, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

If the patient resists, the killing is not supposed to take place. Right. As though the person would know what was happening. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, assisted suicide, dementia, despair, disabilities, doctors, family, infanticide, killing, legislation, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, organ harvesting, patients, Reuters}

Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 21, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down. Read More ›