Tag: poison

White medical pills or tablets with bottle on black background. Macro side view with copy space

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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
Richard Weikart

Date
August 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Australia, Christianity, disabilities, happiness, Hebrews, Hippocratic Oath, human life, infanticide, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, physicians, Plato, poison, Pythagoras, Socrates, Stoics, The Republic}

Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity

_{Richard Weikart
August 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 13, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, autopsy, Darwinian paradigm, evolutionists, ID the Future, Johannes Kepler, Michael Keas, podcast, poison, Research, sun, Tycho Brahe, universe}

How Tycho Brahe Set an Unhelpful Precedent for Scientists

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 13, 2024

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

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Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer, sat on his astronomical research for years, rather than sharing it with Kepler, his assistant. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, beauty, flowering plants, intelligent design, nature, photography, poison, seeds}

Deadly Beauty: Golden Rain

_{Günter Bechly
June 2, 2022

Biology, Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

1}

Golden rain is in full bloom on our terrace in Echsenbach (Lower Austria). The seeds are highly poisonous but it is a real beauty. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, death, medication, medicine, patients, physician, poison, Skype, suicide, telemedicine, Vermont, Zoom}

Now It’s Assisted Suicide by Zoom Meeting

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 30, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

2}

Remember when we were told that assisted suicide would only be engaged in as part of an intimate and long-term physician/patient relationship? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, doctors, euthanasia, Germany, Hawaii, medical professionals, nurse practitioners, patients, physician-assisted suicide, poison, suicide, Washington State}

Now Another State Wants Non–Physician-Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 27, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

Hot on the heels of Washington State, it’s Hawaii. A bill has been filed to allow nurse practitioners to lethally prescribe. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Bioscience, CNN, evolution, exoskeleton, fossils, horseshoe crabs, Nature Scientific Reports, Ohio, Ohio State University, paleontology, poison, publish or perish, Science (journal), scorpions, Smithsonian Magazine, Uncommon Descent, Wall Street Journal, Wisconsin}

The Oldest Scorpion and the Decadence of Evolutionary Science

_{Günter Bechly
January 21, 2020

Evolution

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What do we learn from this case? In today’s science world it is no longer sufficient to objectively describe some nicely preserved ancient fossils. 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, Netherlands, Oregon, palliative care, patients, poison, Quebec}

How Euthanasia Hurts Palliative Care

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 13, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 17, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Death with Dignity, dignity, disabilities, disabled, dying, elderly, isolation, love, New York Times, Oregon, pain, poison}

Bruni “Gets It” on Disability Bias — Except for Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 17, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

When New York Times columnist Frank Bruni isn’t driving me nuts, it’s usually because he’s on vacation from his (very well written) column. Read More ›