The earliest Christian ethical writing dating from about 100 — the Didache — explicitly condemns “murder” as profoundly sinful.
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Part of the reason we don’t know exactly how anesthesia works is surely that we do not know what consciousness is (there are at least 325 theories out there).
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Neurologist Brian Edlow hopes that brain–computer interface technology like Neuralink will help researchers communicate with covertly conscious people.
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Bioethicist Brandon Ambrosino reacts to the physicians’ protest and promotes the very de-professionalization that the original article decried.
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The moral stigma against suicide prevents many deaths — which is why assisted suicide activists don’t call it suicide.
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Biotech companies agree to ban or voluntarily refrain from doing that which can’t yet be done but conduct the very experiments necessary to learn how to do it.
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Neither shortage of oxygen nor the presence of relatives account for the sudden release from confusion or dementia.
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From what the story discloses, the primary focus of the medical team became the 3-D planning and preparation for the surgery after the killing.
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Serious research on terminal lucidity will immensely damage the sort of materialism that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker champions.
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Some will ask, if we can artificially gestate fetuses to that stage, why not harvest them for organs? That has already been proposed. Repeatedly.
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People with disabilities know that. once assisted suicide becomes normalized, the categories of killable people will expand well beyond the terminally ill.
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In addition to imprisoning the operators of these criminal conspiracies, we should pass laws explicitly making it a crime to purchase organs from overseas
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When researching Forced Exit (1997), I found that the hospice sector in the euthanasia-friendly Netherlands was stunted, compared with other countries.
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Facilitating drug abuse — which is what “harm reduction” does — causes terrible harm, often to the people it purports to help.
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But today, the serious problem is not modernism and scientism, which are fading. It is post-modernism, which rejects reason and evidence.
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We shouldn’t be surprised, as advocates oppose the right of medical conscience that would allow professionals to opt out of all complicity in killing patients.
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Dr. Egnor agreed, observing that the United States seems to be losing its ability to hold respectful disagreement. Post responded by quoting Abraham Lincoln’s call for unity
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The ultimate destination for assisted suicide will be the creation of a fundamental right to be made dead, regardless of the reason, i.e., death on demand.
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Embryology tells us that the unborn child is a human organism — distinct from but dependent upon his or her mother.
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Dementia is not “inevitable,” in the sense that it would happen no matter what else is in play. Nature is rarely like that. Decisions matter.
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