assisted suicide

Medical students walking through corridor

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 19, 2024
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Association of American Medical Colleges Journal Pushes for Residencies in Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 19, 2024
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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
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At Least 60 People With Eating Disorders Euthanized or Assisted in Suicide Since 2012

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2024
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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
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Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Plans to Surrender to Assisted-Suicide Agenda

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 26, 2024
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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
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Euthanize Me, or I’ll Starve Myself to Death

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 6, 2024
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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 ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2024
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Euthanasia Poisons People and Societies

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2024
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Most of the media report on euthanasia in the glowing, uncritical language of empowered patients "dying peacefully on their own terms." In contrast, euthanasia abuses and horror stories—an ever-growing list—generally receive little focused media attention and remain outside the notice of people not engaged with the issue. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 18, 2024
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Politico Promotes a Suicide

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March 18, 2024
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Politico has published a long story about a big-time political consultant named Hal Malchow who is flying to Switzerland to become dead in one of the country's notorious suicide clinics. Read More ›

Oncologist doctor holding patient's hand in hospital. Showing all love, empathy, helping and encouragement. He has end stage cancer disease. Healthcare in end of life and palliative care concept

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 5, 2024
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The Nationalization of Assisted Suicide Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 5, 2024
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Progressive cultural radicals are busily nationalizing their policy agendas by breaking the usual legal comity among the states. For example, California recently declared itself a transgender sanctuary jurisdiction. Its law now actively interferes with out-of-state child custody orders by allowing non-resident gender dysphoric children who make it to California to access puberty-blocking and transition surgeries despite their custodial parent’s refusal of consent. Read More ›

Older woman lying in hospital bed alone looking at the Christian crucifix asking for her healing.

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2023
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No to Killing for Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2023
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The shortage of organs for transplantation is threatening to unleash immoral and unethical remedies. A terrible story out of Belgium illustrates the peril. Read More ›

Definition of word euthanasia in dictionary

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 8, 2023
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The Whispers of Strangers

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 8, 2023
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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. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 28, 2023
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Terri Schiavo Case Was a Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 28, 2023
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The court-ordered death of Terri Schiavo was an ominous cultural tipping point. The legal case began when Terri’s husband Michael Schiavo applied to remove the feeding tube from his profoundly cognitively disabled wife so that she would die by dehydration. When Terri’s parents Bob and Mary Schindler, joined by her siblings Bobby and Suzanne, fought the plan in court, profoundly important cultural and legal battle lines were drawn that were destined to change the country. Read More ›