assisted suicide

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2025}

Bobby Schindler on the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Terri Schiavo

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2025}

Caucasian male police officer in uniform with gun on his belt walking down a brightly lit hospital hallway with back turned

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 24, 2025
Human Exceptionalism}

Swiss Canton Liberates Suicide Tourism from Police Investigation

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 24, 2025
Human Exceptionalism}

Switzerland is the world's suicide tourism capital. Indeed, for the price of transportation and about $11,000, you can be helped to make yourself dead at one of the country's notorious suicide clinics. It used to be that each such assisted suicide had to be at least cursorily investigated by the authorities. But now, that minimal protection has been gutted. Read More ›

Side view portrait of bearded gentleman lying in bed. Young woman in white lab coat on blurred background

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 17, 2025
Human Exceptionalism}

Washington Bill to Allow Non-MD-Prescribed Assisted Suicide and to Shorten Waiting Period

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 17, 2025
Human Exceptionalism}

I previously wrote about pending Oregon and Vermont legislation to do away with the requirement that only doctors be allowed to legally assist suicides. Now, it's Washington's turn, with a proposal to allow "qualified medical providers" to prescribe poison, defined as a licensed physician, physician's assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse. Read More ›

A group of family members hugging or holding hands for comfort, dressed in black, in times of grief

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 2, 2025
Human Exceptionalism}

Assisted-Suicide Death Ceremonies Becoming Normalized

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 2, 2025
Human Exceptionalism}

Back in 1991 or so, I was invited by an elderly and ill suicidal friend — along with about 20 of her other pals — to gather in her apartment for a suicide party. Frances' idea was that she would tell us how much we meant to her, we would reciprocate, and she would swallow pills. Instead, all her friends were appalled and held an intervention. Read More ›

^{Center on Human Exceptionalism
November 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Wesley J. Smith Appears on American Thought Leaders to Discuss the Assisted Suicide Movement

_{Center on Human Exceptionalism
November 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Wesley J. Smith was on EpochTV’s American Thought Leaders this week in an episode dedicated to exploring the history and dangers of the assisted suicide movement. From EpochTV: “When a country or a state legalizes assisted suicide or euthanasia, it can no longer call itself anti-suicide, because it specifically approves some suicides. … It’s a very dangerous movement that is …

^{Howard Glicksman
September 25, 2024}

Physician Howard Glicksman on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

_{Howard Glicksman
September 25, 2024}

Medical students walking through corridor

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 19, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Association of American Medical Colleges Journal Pushes for Residencies in Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 19, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

In California, the Stutter Family Residency Medical Program even offers residencies to train doctors in assisted suicide. Chillingly, most of the doctors who participated in a small study on assisted suicide and who prescribe poison as part of their job like it. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

At Least 60 People With Eating Disorders Euthanized or Assisted in Suicide Since 2012

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

A very disturbing — but, alas, unsurprising — report has been published from a review of medical studies that demonstrates that at least 60, but almost surely more, people with eating disorders (EDs) have been euthanized or assisted in suicide between 2012 and 2024. This includes at least three patients from the U.S. Read More ›

Old people in geriatric hospice: elderly lady having eyesight problems viewing the screen of mobile phone. A nurse helps the senior woman dialing a number on the tiny keyboard

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 26, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Plans to Surrender to Assisted-Suicide Agenda

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 26, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

When Dame Cecily Saunders created the modern hospice movement, she adamantly rejected assisted suicide as an acceptable hospice activity. Saunders would be spinning in her grave if she read the proposed policy around assisted suicide that has been published by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA). Read More ›

Rear view of sad and depressed female patient sitting on wheelchair with saline bottle in hospital room looking towards curtains on window

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 6, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Euthanize Me, or I’ll Starve Myself to Death

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 6, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

In Canada, an autistic 27-year-old suicidal woman known as M.V. — whose judicially approved euthanasia was delayed until at least October by her father's claim that she does not qualify — is now starving herself to emotionally blackmail the court into allowing her to be killed expeditiously. Read More ›