Tag: suffering

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, antipsychotics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, Bioethics (journal), confusion, decision‐making, dehydration, distress, doctors, encouragement, euthanasia, fluids, HIV, palliating doctor, patients, physicians, professional journals, refractory delirium, self-starvation, suffering, suicide, suicide assistance, syringes, terminal sedation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Read More ›

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
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 13, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Canceled Science, determinism, droughts, earthquakes, Eric Hedin, faith and science, free will, human evil, Hurricanes, ID the Future, intelligent design, natural evil, podcast, rational thought, Robert Sapolsky, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sickness, suffering, tragedies}

Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 13, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Says Dr. Hedin, "We live in a world where the second law of thermodynamics applies not just to stars and mountainsides but also to our own bodies.” Read More ›

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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
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, Christianity for Doubters, Christians, Denyse O'Leary, doubt, faith and science, Granville Sewell, grief, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, laws of nature, mathematicians, Robert J. Marks II, Science and Culture, suffering, theology}

A New Second Edition of Mathematician Granville Sewell’s Book Is Out Now

_{David Klinghoffer
September 12, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

2}

Dr. Sewell wrote perhaps the most moving essay we've ever published here, under the title, "The Biggest Theological Objection to Design." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, cancer, chemicals, Darwinism, devolution, eugenics, evil, function, Guillermo Gonzalez, history, human dignity, human life, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, life, materialism, podcast, problem of evil, Return of the God Hypothesis, Social Darwinism, struggle for existence, suffering, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, Tova Forman}

Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evil

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 14, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The presence of evil and suffering calls for justification. But which scientific view of life is better placed to help us address these issues? Read More ›

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Date
November 25, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Brian Miller, creator, death, Discovery Institute Press, disease, evolutionary theory, Father Martin Hilbert, Father Michael Chaberek, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, J. Budziszewski, Jay W. Richards, Roman Catholic, suffering, theistic evolution, theology}

New Book Makes the Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
November 25, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Fr. Martin Hilbert explains why the theory of intelligent design, rightly understood, harmonizes perfectly with the Catholic theological tradition. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Enlightenment, evil, John Henry Newman, John Herschel, John Milton, John Ray, methodological naturalism, Natural Theology (book), On the Origin of Species, Paradise Lost, problem of pain, suffering, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, theodicy, William Paley}

Darwin and the Problem of Pain

_{Neil Thomas
September 11, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

19}

For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›

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Author
Elie Feder

Date
August 20, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, chance, design hypothesis, evil, intelligent cause, intelligent life, likelihood, natural disasters, physical constants, probabilities, suffering, universe}

Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 20, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Many authors formulate the fine-tuning argument using probabilities and Bayesian analysis (e.g., Swinburne, Collins, Roberts, Barnes). Read More ›

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Date
August 5, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, assisted suicide, death, despair, Discovery Institute Press, Enlightenment, euthanasia, Greeks, history, Howard Glicksman, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, materialism, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Peter Singer, Richard Weikart, Socrates, suffering, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

How Did We Get Here? New Book by Richard Weikart Tracks Rise of the Culture of Death

_{Science & Culture
August 5, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

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The Judeo-Christian tradition encouraged a culture of life, but the secular Enlightenment and Darwinian materialism have tugged us in a different direction. Read More ›