Tag: suicide prevention

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

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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 ›

3d render of abstract face in digital cyberspace with a lot of particles around. Technology concept of facial recognition.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 3, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Barcelona, bioethics, breathing, commodification, dead donor rule, donation, donor, eating, euthanasia, face, face transplant, heebie-jeebies, Maria José Abadías, medical treatment, medicine, neurovascular microsurgery, patients, Spain, suicide, suicide prevention, surgery, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital}

In Spain, a Transplant Case Gives Heebie-Jeebies

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 3, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Euthanasia conjoined with organ harvesting just took a particularly disturbing turn, when a woman was euthanized and had part of her face transplanted. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 16, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, Andrew Coyne, Canada, children, culture, death, doctors, euthanasia, faith, garden, life, Ontario, patients, suicide, suicide prevention, The Atlantic}

The Horrors of Canadian Euthanasia

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August 16, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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As journalist Andrew Coyne said, “A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animals, Australia, Jack Kevorkian, Kathryn Jean Lopez, media, nihilism, Philip Nitschke, Sarco, suicide, suicide prevention, Switzerland, tragedies}

“Doctor” Nitschke’s Suicide Pod Claims Its First Victim

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Was the capsule tested? If so, how? On animals? Who knows? Somehow, these questions don’t get asked. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Canada, conscience rights, COVID-19, culture, dementia, euthanasia, lockdown, loneliness, mental illness, Ontario, organ harvesting, suicide prevention, United States}

10,000+ Canadian Euthanasia Killings in 2021

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 3, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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The statistics are startling and illustrate that once euthanasia consciousness infects a culture, it grows like a fungus. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, assisted suicide, coronavirus, COVID-19, despair, doctors, New Jersey, public policy, suicide prevention}

New Jersey’s Suicide Confusion

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 12, 2020

Bioethics

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With COVID-19, New Jersey officials are worried about a spike in suicide caused by the shutdown. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 28, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, "rational suicide", choice, Compassion and Choices, euphemism, Hemlock Society, suicide, suicide prevention, terminal illness}

Pushing Suicide as Merely a “Choice”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 28, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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This is the concept of “rational suicide” — a minority view in the mental health professions. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 2, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, bioethicists, culture of death, Hippocratic Oath, hospital, ideology, interventions, nurses, patients, progressivism, suicide, suicide prevention}

So Now Will Nurses Only Prevent Some Suicides?

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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Here’s the problem. The leadership of organized medicine and mainstream bioethicists are increasingly joining the progressive ideological coalition. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 23, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, "rational suicide", blacks, euphemism, medical aid in dying, Native Americans, New York Times, physician-assisted suicide, suicide prevention, terminal illness, whites}

David Brooks Forgets to Oppose Some Suicides

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 23, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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Like so many others in the contemporary cultural milieu, Brooks remains in the shallow water by failing to grapple with the ubiquitous promotion of suicide we see all around us. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, ALS, assisted suicide, cancer, depression, euthanasia, interventions, Jack Kevorkian, Michael Shermer, Netherlands, Oregon, overdose, pain, Scientific American, suicide prevention, terminal illness, University of Toronto}

Scientific American: Prevention Can Benefit Any Suicidal Person

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2018

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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My last hospice patient, Bob, told me that after some months of just wanting to be dead, that he had “come out of the fog.” Read More ›