hospital Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date June 29, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , abandonment, Canada, compassion, disability, doctors, euthanasia, health care, housing, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, medicine, nurse practitioners, Ontario, PTSD, quadriplegia, veterans Canadian Disabled Woman Opts for Euthanasia Because She Can’t Get Timely Assistance Wesley J. Smith June 29, 2023 Bioethics, Medicine 3 I am hearing about this kind of abandonment much more often since Canada loosened its euthanasia eligibility requirements. Read More ›
Adrift Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date June 23, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine 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 ›
surgery Type post Author Michael Egnor Date March 11, 2021 CategoriesBioethicsMetaphysicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , body, brain, Frankenstein, humans, medicine, monkeys, muscles, nerves, neurosurgeon, paralysis, quadriplegia, Robert White, soul, spinal cord, trachea, Wired Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants? Michael Egnor March 11, 2021 Bioethics, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind 3 The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body? Read More ›
Jack Kevorkian Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 17, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine 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 ›
