Tag: Terri Schiavo

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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
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 26, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abortion, advance directive, Arthur Caplan, assisted suicide, Bobby Schindler, culture of death, dehydration, disability rights, Dominic Sisti, euthanasia, fluids, food, gender-affirming care, Hastings Center, Humanize, Michael Schiavo, parents, pro-life movement, Roe v. Wade, self-starvation and dehydration, siblings, sustenance, Terri Schiavo, Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, vaccine mandates, water}

Schiavo Case Was a Terrible Cultural Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 26, 2025

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting

4}

The case elevated the culture of death into a conflagration. It boosted the passage of assisted suicide laws. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 28, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Compassion & Choices, death cult, dehydration, Dutch News, dying, harm reduction, hospice, lips, Netherlands, palliative care, self-starving, suicide, Terri Schiavo, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Now Doctors to Help Younger People Commit Suicide by Self-Starvation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 28, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Of course, we in the U.S. have our own such issues, even beyond pernicious VSED advocacy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, advance directive, California, Canada, Colorado, compassion, Connecticut, dehydration, disabilities, District of Columbia, euthanasia, feeding tube, Hawaii, heart, human life, kidneys, liver, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, mental illness, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, new york, nihilism, Oregon, organ transplant, pancreas, Rhode Island, suicide tourism, Terri Schiavo, Vermont, VSED}

A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

5}

A legal battle raged for several years during which the country agonized and argued about the right and moral course. 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 ›

Asian newborn baby sleeping in blanket on bed

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Australians, babies, birth, chimpanzees, dignity, fetuses, human life, illness, infanticide, injury, Michael Schiavo, newborn babies, Poland, quality of life, senators, Terri Schiavo, zebrafish}

Bioethicist Asks, “Does Birth Matter?” Answers, “No”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 11, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

In our current episode of let’s-allow-baby-killing, an Australian bioethicist named Walter Veit comes to the defense of infanticide. 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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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 1, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, brain death, Dartmouth College, dehydration, Jahi McMath, Michael Schiavo, neurology, Terri Schiavo, The New Yorker, video}

More Myths of Terri Schiavo

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 1, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

One myth is that the family somehow edited videos of Terri to make it appear falsely that she was conscious. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, consciousness, death, hydration, life, medical treatment, nutrition, Terri Schiavo, The Guardian}

Persistently Unconscious Patient Awakened

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

What if scientists found a way to awaken such patients? That may be on the way. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 11, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, culture of death, First Things, Jack Kevorkian, media, Planned Parenthood, Terri Schiavo, Wesley J. Smith}

Unmasking the Culture of Death

_{David Klinghoffer
June 11, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

Observe the now familiar evolution -- guided by the media and “bioethicists” -- of public sentiment, from outrage to apathy. Read More ›