2005-protest-for-Terri-Schiavo-2 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 29, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineScience Tagged , advance directive, California, Canada, Colorado, compassion, Connecticut, dehydration, disabilities, District of Columbia, euthanasia, feeding tube, Hawaii, heart, human life, kidneys, liver, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, mental illness, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, new york, nihilism, Oregon, organ transplant, pancreas, Rhode Island, suicide tourism, Terri Schiavo, Vermont, VSED A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point Wesley J. Smith March 29, 2023 Bioethics, Medicine, Science 5 A legal battle raged for several years during which the country agonized and argued about the right and moral course. Read More ›
graveyard Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date February 12, 2019 CategoriesBioethicsEnvironment & Climate Tagged , __k-review, California, death, decomposition, Europe, human bodies, human dignity, materialists, modernity, Rhode Island, sewage, soil, Washington State Human Dignity — Past Death Wesley J. Smith February 12, 2019 Bioethics, Environment & Climate 5 Having ourselves turned into dirt — or worse — reflects at least an implied philosophical view that it doesn’t ultimately matter that we ever existed. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 13, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine 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 ›