assisted suicide

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 28, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

Terri Schiavo Case Was a Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 28, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

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 ›

Young pea (Pisum) sprouts in a sunny vegetable garden

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 20, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 20, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

But eliminating suffering is impossible. Not only is the goal Utopian, but it leads to ever-more-extreme distortions of decency and a collapse of public policy rationality—which ironically, can cause the very “evil” that suffering abolitionists yearn so desperately to prevent. Read More ›

Male person with gloved hand turns off the intravenous drug system to the unconscious patient

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 7, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Euthanasia Without Brakes

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 7, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

If we don’t change our current cultural trajectory we will end up in the same dark corner as Canada, the Netherlands, and Belgium. And the real danger to our cultural wellbeing is that the people who now complacently assume that such warnings are alarmist will be the ones applauding the loudest when that dark time comes. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 18, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Don’t Let Doctors Kill Sick Patients for Their Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 18, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Some lines should never be crossed. Allowing doctors to kill patients during organ harvesting wouldn’t only be an acute threat to the sanctity of life, but I can think of no better way to sow mistrust in our health care system generally—and the lifesaving field of organ transplant medicine specifically. Read More ›

Definition of word euthanasia in dictionary

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 19, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Suicide Contagion

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 19, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

I have often argued that, as a matter of logic and intuition, the widespread legalization of assisted suicide will increase both the rate of assisted suicides and the rate of unassisted suicides. Read More ›

^{Richard Weikart
March 22, 2022}

Eric Metaxas and Richard Weikart Spotlight Darwinian Racism

_{Richard Weikart
March 22, 2022}

Today’s ID the Future brings listeners a lively conversation between radio host and bestselling author Eric Metaxas and historian Richard Weikart about Weikart’s new book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. Read More ›

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

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 25, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Legalizing ‘Medical Aid in Dying’ Normalizes Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 25, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Here’s the advocacy scam: “Death with dignity” activists push suicide facilitation for some people—but still claim to oppose suicide per se because they call doctor-prescribed death by the euphemism, “medical aid in dying” (MAID). Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 13, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

We Are Becoming Pro-Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 13, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Just what the world didn’t need — a suicide machine that promises to make users die pleasurably in just 30 seconds. Ready or not, it’s here. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Anti-Conscience Mandates Force Doctors to Violate Their Religious Beliefs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Compelling doctors to hew to secular cultural values in their practice of medicine is both authoritarian and un-American. If the anti-medical conscience campaign succeeds, we will all be the poorer for it. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Brit Baby’s Death Ruled Better Than Small Chance of Living — Again

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Readers may recall the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases from the U.K. — in which doctors both wanted to remove life support and prevent the children from being transferred to other hospitals willing to continue care. Because the law in the U.K. permits courts to decide the “best interests” of children in medical extremis, the MDs got their way. Read More ›