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Laboratory technician checking CDC specimen submitting form, laboratory testing for SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Coronavirus disease infection,global pandemic crisis,swab collection patient specimen procedure

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 21, 2023

Categorized
Medicine and Health

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, CDC, Euthanasia, Health, Statistics, suicide, The National Review, Wesley J. Smith}

CDC Neglects to Include Assisted Deaths in Official Suicide Report

_{Assisted dying is a form of suicide, regardless of the ways our culture has euphemized the term} _{Wesley J. Smith

August 21, 2023

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Medicine and Health}

2021 was among the worst years ever for suicides in the U.S., with 2022 looking to have been even worse. According to the CDC, in 2021, 48,183 people killed themselves. That number is projected to increase to 49,449 for 2022 once the data are tabulated. That’s a terrible tragedy. But it is even worse than that because assisted suicides are not included in the suicide statistics. Why? Because the laws legalizing assisted suicide in most states — which is euphemistically referred to as “medical aid in dying” (MAID) or “death with dignity” — redefine a doctor-prescribed overdose as other than what it is: suicide. Indeed, most of these laws require doctors to lie about the actual cause as the underlying disease Read More ›

Hallway the emergency room and outpatient hospital. 3d illustration

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 14, 2023

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, Culture of Death, Death, Dystopia, Euthanasia, Human exceptionalism, Mental illness}

The Small Steps That Lead to Dystopia

_{Revisiting a 1993 article warning about the future of assisted suicide} _{Wesley J. Smith

August 14, 2023

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Ethics}

Editor’s Note: The following piece was originally published in Newsweek in June 1993. Today is my 76th birthday,” the letter began. “Unassisted and by my own free will, I have chosen to take my final passage.” Suicide. My friend Frances died in a cold, impersonal hotel room after taking an overdose of sleeping pills, with a plastic bag tied over her head suffocating the life out of her body. Frances was not a happy woman. She had family troubles. She suffered from chronic lymphatic leukemia and was facing the difficult prospect of a hip replacement. She also had a chronic nerve condition that caused her to feel a burning sensation on her skin. But Frances was lucid, aware and involved. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
July 12, 2023

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Assisted Suicide, Canada, CBC, Euthanasia, Medicine, Ontario, Wesley J. Smith}

Patients Opting for Euthanasia in the Face of Painful Circumstances

_{Receiving assistance takes a long time. But to be made dead? Not so much.} _{Wesley J. Smith

July 12, 2023

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

So much compassion! A disabled woman with quadriplegia named Rose Finlay in Canada has asked to be euthanized because she is destitute, and the disability benefits she applied for would not arrive in time for her to be properly housed and cared for. From the CBC story: A quadriplegic woman in Bowmanville, Ont., has applied for medical assistance in dying (MAID), saying it’s easier to access than the support services she needs to live her life comfortably. Receiving assistance takes a long time. But to be made dead? Not so much: The single mother of three boys previously supported her family with earnings from disability advocacy work through her company, Inclusive Solutions. That’s also how she could afford to hire her own support Read More ›

equipment and medical devices in modern operating room

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
June 22, 2023

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
bioethics, Canada and Euthanasia, Daily Mail, Euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, Medical Ethics, National Review, Quebec, Wesley J. Smith}

Medical Association is “Neutral” on Assisted Suicide

_{This is a matter of the gravest ethical concern} _{Wesley J. Smith

June 22, 2023

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Ethics}

How in the world can a medical association be neutral on granting doctors a license to kill or assist the suicide of their patients? This is a matter of the gravest medical ethical concern, an action, remember, that was strictly proscribed 2,500 years ago in the Hippocratic Oath. Utter Cowardice But yield to the pressures of the activists is what the UK’s Royal College of Surgeons has done, in an act of utter cowardice based on a survey answered by only 19 percent of its members. From the Daily Mail story: The Royal College of Surgeons is no longer opposed to assisted dying and is now ‘neutral’, it has been announced. The organisation’s council members voted after discussing survey results, which showed an appetite for change, a Read More ›

Beauty injection concept. Syringe with violet liquid for hypodermic injection.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
June 12, 2023

Categorized
Medicine and Health

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, bioethics, Culture War, Depression, Euthanasia, Legislation, mental health, Politics, Portugal, suicide, Wesley J. Smith, Western Culture}

This Country Just Legalized Euthanasia

_{The law isn't even limited to those who are terminally ill} _{Wesley J. Smith

June 12, 2023

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Medicine and Health}

Alas. The president of Portugal just signed into law a bill legalizing euthanasia by lethal injection. It is not limited to the terminally ill — which is at least honest, since that is not what euthanasia/assisted suicide is really all about. From the Reuters story: The law specifies that people would be allowed to request assistance in dying in cases when they are “in a situation of intense suffering, with definitive injury of extreme gravity or serious and incurable disease.” It establishes a two-month gap between accepting a request and the actual procedure and makes psychological support mandatory. Strict guidelines and all that jazz. Not only are they unlikely to be strictly enforced but will soon be redefined from protections to barriers, Read More ›

Doctor hand holding a stethoscope listening to heartbeat

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 21, 2023

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
bioethics, Canada, Euthanasia, Health Care, Medical Ethics, The Corner, Wesley J. Smith}

“Harm Reduction” is Euthanasia’s New Euphemism

_{Bioethics is growing increasingly monstrous. And that matters.} _{Wesley J. Smith

May 21, 2023

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Ethics}

Once killing the sufferer becomes a societally acceptable means for ending suffering, there is no end to the “suffering” that justifies human termination. We can see this phenomenon most vividly in Canada, because it is happening there more quickly than in most cultures. For example, a recent poll found that 27 percent of Canadians polled strongly or moderately agree that euthanasia is acceptable for suffering caused by “poverty” and 28 percent strongly or moderately agree that killing by doctors is acceptable for suffering caused by homelessness. I can’t imagine that being true ten years ago before euthanasia became legal. Euthanasia mutates a society’s soul. Killing as “Harm Reduction” This kind of abandonment thinking finds enthusiastic, albeit not unanimous, expression among secular bioethicists. In fact, two Canadian bioethicists just Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
October 27, 2022

Tagged
Abortion, Arjuna Gallagher, Bhagavad Gita, Cancel culture, Consciousness, Creation, Creation (in Hindu thought), Euthanasia, God and Evil, Hinduism, Intelligent Design, Michael Egnor, mind-body problem, Plato, Problem of evil (in Hinduism), religion, Theology Unleashed, Thomistic Philosophy}

Hinduism, Philosophy, and the Mind

_{Michael Egnor

October 27, 2022

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Arjuna Gallagher is the host of the YouTube Channel called Theology Unleashed and a Hindu. He discusses Hinduism’s unique perspective regarding subjects such as metaphysics, evil, and free will with Dr. Michael Egnor. They also address creation, social ethics, and the relationship of the mind and the body. Additional Resources Dr. Michael Egnor Follow Arjuna Gallagher on Facebook Subscribe to Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Michael Egnor
Date
April 7, 2022

Tagged
Abortion, Arjuna Gallagher, Cancel culture, Euthanasia, Hare Krishna, Hinduism, Michael Egnor, Microaggressions, Pain, Problem of evil (in Hinduism), Religion and Suffering, suffering, Theology Unleashed, Theology Unleashed on YouTube}

Hinduism and Social Ethics

_{Michael Egnor

April 7, 2022

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What does Hinduism teach about social ethics issues? Is there a consensus among most Hindus, or are there a variety of viewpoints? Dr. Michael Egnor and his guest, Arjuna Gallagher address current issues such as cancel culture, abortion, euthanasia, and suicide. Show Notes 00:10 | Introducing Arjuna Gallagher 00:52 | Cancel Culture 02:29 | Hinduism, Abortion, and Euthanasia 17:14 | Read More ›

In the Hospital Sick Man Lying on the Bed, His Visiting Wife Hopefully Sits Beside Him and Prays for His Rapid Recovery. Tragic, Somber and Melancholy Scene.

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Author
News
Date
June 8, 2021

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health, Neuroscience

Tagged
brain death, Euthanasia, organ donation, Uniform Declaration of Death Act, World Brain Death Project}

Is It Safe to Revise the Standard for Legally Recognized Brain Death?

_{People have a right to not have a controversial concept of death imposed upon them} _{News

June 8, 2021

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Ethics, Medicine and Health, Neuroscience}

Originally published on MercatorNet on May 28, 2021 by Nancy Valko I have been writing for many years about the implications of brain death, the lesser known “donation after cardiac/circulatory death”, diagnosed brain death cases like the supposedly “impossible” prolonged survival and maturation of Jahi McMath, and unexpected recoveries like Zack Dunlap’s. Some mothers declared “brain dead” were able to gestate their babies for weeks or months to a successful delivery before their ventilators were removed. Last August, I wrote about the World Brain Death Project and the effort to establish a worldwide consensus on brain death criteria and testing to develop the “minimum clinical standards for determination of brain death” (emphasis added). I also wrote about the current effort “to revise the (US) Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) to assure a Read More ›

Human skull with a syringe holds in the mouth and vaccine bottle on space of brown paper, Bad side effect concept

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Author
News
Date
May 31, 2021

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Abortion, Conscience rights, Euthanasia, Human embryos (14-day rule), Michael Egnor}

Michael Egnor: Stop Making Killing a Form of Cure

_{Euthanasia and abortion are not forms of medicine, he says} _{News

May 31, 2021

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

Recently, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor pleaded with medical colleagues to take a stronger stand on the rapid normalization of killing as a form of “cure” in our society: The medical profession should take a clear stand on this issue: doctors who deliberately kill — whether by abortion or by physician-assisted suicide or by euthanasia — are not practicing medicine when they kill. Medical practice always entails the maintenance of health, the treatment of disease, and the relief of suffering. Ending the life of a patient or of the child in his mother’s womb is neither the maintenance of health nor treatment of a disease nor the alleviation of any suffering. It is simply the killing of an innocent unwanted child. I Read More ›