Tag: suffering

Doctor carrying a cooler box for organ transport doctor ensures swift and safe organ transport using specialized cooler box, optimizing life-saving medical procedures

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 17, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Australia, Belgium, bioethics, brain cancer, Canada, cause of death, coma, dead donor rule, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, homicide, medical ethics, mentally ill, natural resources, Netherlands, New Zealand, npr, organ donation, organ-harvesting, patients, recontextualization, Robert D. Truog, Spain, suffering, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Ghoulish Proposal: Killing for Organs Gets a Prestige Endorsement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 17, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Transforming sick and disabled people into a killable caste objectifies them as potential natural resources to be mined or harvested. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, astrophysicists, Bible, Big Bang, birth defects, Carl Sagan, Chelsea Handler Show, churches, community centers, cosmology, Cosmos (series), documentary, evidence, faith, First Cause, human inquiry, ID the Future, Impaulsive, Judeo-Christian tradition, Logan Paul, Mike Majlak, natural disasters, Neil deGrasse Tyson, pestilence, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rotten Tomatoes, schools, scientific community, Stephen Meyer, suffering, The Story of Everything, universe}

Who Pushed the Button? A Question at the Frontier of Human Inquiry

_{Terrell Clemmons
July 15, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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While answers may venture beyond the limits of the empirical sciences, that doesn’t mean the sciences don’t offer meaningful information to bear on them. Read More ›

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

3}

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

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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

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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 ›