Tag: starvation

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, Arthur Caplan, artificial hydration and nutrition, bioethics, chemotherapy, competency, dehydration, dementia, feeding tubes, food, hygiene, liquids, medical treatment, medicine, Medscape, nurse, nursing, nutrients, patients, spoon-feeding, starvation, surgery, swallowing, Terri Schiavo}

Should Caregivers Be Forced to Starve Dementia Patients?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

If you did such a thing to a dog, you would go to jail. When will we say, “Enough. This is too much to ask”? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, autophagy, Berlin, cell biology, communication, Darwinism, endoplasmic reticulum, endosome, evolution, fatty acids, genius, intelligent design, Lord Kelvin, Maria Clara Zanellati, mitochondria, Neil Thomas, organelles, Sarah Cohen, Science (journal), starvation, University of North Carolina, Your Designed Body}

Engineering Language Enters Biology — The Case of the Endosome

_{David Coppedge
March 21, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

7}

An automated engineering system presupposes a designer with foresight and a mind that understands how to make things work. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, caregivers, dehydration, elderly, euthanasia, hospice, reporters, starvation, suicide, Terri Schiavo, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

We Aren’t an Anti-Suicide Culture Anymore

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 1, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

The assisted-suicide movement boosts suicide in many forms. One of the most insidious is known in euthanasia parlance as VSED. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 16, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, antibiotic resistance, Barack Obama, conflict of interest, dehydration, Florida, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, ideology, infection, Joe Biden, medical treatment, Michael Schiavo, New York Magazine, Noa Pothoven, religious right, Sarah Jones, starvation, Terri Schiavo, U.S. Senate}

Historical Revisionism in the Terri Schiavo Case

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 16, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

The case tore this country apart, and alas, proved a significant accelerant to the spread of the culture of death in America. But it was not a matter of left versus right. Read More ›

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Date
April 18, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bacterial flagellum, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Dover trial, evo-devo, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, natural genetic engineering, neutral theory, outboard motor, PLOS Biology, starvation, T3SS, type III secretion system}

Darwin Devolves, Again: Study Finds Bacteria Eject Their Flagella to Avoid Starvation

_{Evolution News
April 18, 2019

Intelligent Design

7}

This finding fits Michael Behe’s book Darwin Devolves perfectly. It’s easier to throw cargo overboard than to create it. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 27, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, British Columbia, Canada, dehydration, diabetes, doctor, elderly, euthanasia, insulin, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, mentally ill, Oregon, patients, starvation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Qualifying for Euthanasia by Self-Starvation in Canada

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 27, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Canada has embraced a positive “right to die.” Here is what happens once that Rubicon is crossed. Read More ›