euthanasia

^{Wesley J. Smith
November 7, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

West Virginia Voters Enact Constitutional Amendment Banning Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 7, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

There will be a lot of political news in the next week. But I don't want it missed that apparently West Virginia voters narrowly passed a constitutional amendment banning assisted suicide. This is the first time that the so-called right to die movement has been proactively pushed back — as opposed to successfully defending against that policy’s spread. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
November 5, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Rita Marker, the Great Anti-Assisted Suicide Champion, Has Died at 83

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 5, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

The great anti-euthanasia warrior, Rita Marker, has died at 83 after a long illness. Rita was in Europe in the mid 1980s and, out of curiosity, attended an international right-to-die convention. She was so alarmed by what she heard, she and her late husband and soulmate Mike Marker, formed the nonprofit International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force (later renamed the Patients Rights Council). Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 25, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Canada’s Euthanasia Horrors Are Accelerating

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 25, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

The horrors unleashed by Canada’s legalizing euthanasia are growing increasingly clear. Case after case of vulnerable people being killed instead of cared for have now been reported. More than 15,000 Canadians are euthanized annually. Some are even asking to die because they can’t access proper care in Canada’s socialized system, or out of loneliness as much as illness. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2024}

Richard Weikart on Medicine’s Descent from Healing to Killing

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2024}

Cylinder compressed gases for oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and argon for welding and hospital

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Death by Nitrogen: Cruel or Death with Dignity?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

^{Howard Glicksman
September 25, 2024}

Physician Howard Glicksman on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

_{Howard Glicksman
September 25, 2024}

woman with lily flowers and coffin at funeral

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

‘Nonmedical’ Assisted Suicide This Way Comes

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

Certain strains of the euthanasia-advocacy movement believe doctors don't need to be involved when someone wants to die. For example, the fanatics of Final Exit Network have taught people how to kill themselves, with a couple convicted of assisting via helium. Read More ›

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 ›

Black stethoscope on Canada flag background, Business and finance concept.

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 12, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Canadian Death Doctor Has Euthanized Hundreds of Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 12, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Legalizing euthanasia corrupts everything — the ethics of medicine, the public's perception of people experiencing illness, disability, or elder frailty, the media that continually swoon over medics who kill. This latter phenomenon is on vivid display in a National Post story. Read More ›