Tag: terminal illness

Male doctor holding female patient hand on the hospital bed.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal testing, animals, Anthony Fauci, assisted suicide, bioethics, biopsies, blood draws, California, cancer, cures, euthanasia, HIV, human body, illness, Last Gift, life expectancy, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Nuremberg Code, organ farms, Peter Singer, San Diego County, spinal taps, terminal illness, tissue donation, UC San Diego, utilitarianism, viral disease, virus}

California Research Experiments on People with “Life-Shortening” Conditions

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Human beings, regardless of how sick they are or how long they are expected to live, should never be considered less worthy of protection than are animals. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortionists, anti-humanism, cancer, dairy cows, David Attenborough, diagnosis, ecocide, ecosystem, electricity, food, fuel, humans, Ireland, Jack Kevorkian, Slate, stewardship, terminal illness}

Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, assisted suicide, barbiturates, COVID-19, death, Death with Dignity, doctors, euthanasia, lethal injection, morphine, nurse practitioners, pandemic, patients, suicide, telehealth, telemedicine, terminal illness}

Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 24, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 18, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, assisted suicide, cancer, Jesus Christ, life, lung cancer, policy, Politics, substance, terminal illness, Wesley Smith}

Life and Limbaugh: The Design Perspective

_{David Klinghoffer
February 18, 2021

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

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The idea that life is designed entails a radically different attitude compared to the materialistic understanding that life splashed ashore on Earth by chance. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 28, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, "rational suicide", “aid-in-dying”, American Psychological Association, 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
March 23, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, "rational suicide", blacks, David Brooks, euphemism, Latinos, 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
January 6, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, breast cancer, death certificate, death cult, euthanasia, HIV, legalization, lethal prescription, malpractice, medical conscience, New Mexico, nurse, patients, physician assistant, physicians, telemedicine, terminal illness}

New Mexico’s Radical Assisted Suicide Legislation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 6, 2019

Medicine

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The assisted suicide movement is akin to a death cult. The ultimate ideological point isn’t to provide a last resort escape for the imminently dying. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, ALS, assisted suicide, Brittany Maynard, 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 ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 18, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, Bloomberg, elderly, health care, health-care rationing, terminal illness}

Stop Blaming Elderly and Terminally Ill for Our Health-Care Spending Problems

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 18, 2018

Medicine

3}

There is a widely believed myth that the elderly and dying take up a huge amount of the overall health-care budget. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 30, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, age, babies, Belgium, Canada, children, disability, euthanasia, infanticide, medical treatment, minors, Netherlands, pets, terminal illness}

Remember When Euthanasia Was About “Choice” for Adults?

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 30, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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If killing is a “medical treatment,” how can it be denied to anyone based on age or competency? Read More ›