operation-room-surgery-in-hospital-blurred-figures-professio-240129234-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date January 7, 2026 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , Australia, Belgium, Canada, Donation after Circulatory Death, euthanasia, lethal injection, lethal overdose, mental illness, Neonatal Resuscitation Program, Netherlands, Ontario, organ harvesting, organs, statistics, suicidal people, suicide, terminal illness, Thaddeus Mason Pope Bringing a Moral Horror to America: The Assisted-Suicide Movement Wants It Wesley J. Smith January 7, 2026 Bioethics, Medicine 3 Conjoining organ harvesting with assisted suicide or euthanasia gives society a “stake” in sick people being made dead. Read More ›
hands-of-an-elderly-man-resting-on-a-walking-cane-stockpack-261734944-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 21, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, antibiotics, burden, dementia, dementia patients, doula, 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 ›
Syringe_with_needle_(2) Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 6, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsEthicsMedicine Tagged , assisted suicide, Australia, children, death, doctors, euthanasia, Germany, killing, medical futility, medicine, Philip Nitschke, suicide, suicide pills, Thaddeus Mason Pope Here Comes “Non-Medical” Assisted Suicide Wesley J. Smith September 6, 2024 Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine 4 Certain strains of the euthanasia-advocacy movement believe doctors don’t need to be involved when someone wants to die. Read More ›
hospital corridor Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date February 7, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , abuse, assisted suicide, dehydration, dementia, disabilities, doctors, elderly, euthanasia, illness, laws, medical aid in dying, mentally ill, public policy, self-starvation, Thaddeus Mason Pope, VSED Self-Starvation to Qualify for Assisted Suicide Wesley J. Smith February 7, 2024 Bioethics, Medicine 3 Once again, the assisted-suicide movement shows itself to be public-policy promise breakers of the most egregious kind and raw zealots for the death agenda. Read More ›
bioethicists-2 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date May 4, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , attorneys, bioethics.net, coronavirus, COVID-19, dementia, elderly people, experts, Hastings Center Report, health care, Hippocratic Oath, Huffington Post, John Hardwig, Journal of Medical Ethics, Julian Savulescu, Oxford University, pandemic, physicians, technocracy, Thaddeus Mason Pope The Bioethicist Pandemic Wesley J. Smith May 4, 2020 Bioethics, Medicine 9 The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates a dangerous temptation. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 10, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, brain death, California, Jahi McMath, New Jersey, Thaddeus Mason Pope Is Recovery from Brain Death Possible? Wesley J. Smith July 10, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 5 This case is a matter of tremendous importance. Read More ›
