euthanasia

^{Wesley J. Smith
November 24, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

Legalizing Euthanasia Poisons a Nation’s Soul

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 24, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

Euthanasia isn't only bad medicine but also poisons the soul of nations that embrace killing as an answer to human suffering. Read More ›

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

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

No to Killing for Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

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 ›

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

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 8, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

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
April 17, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

How Assisted Suicide Advocacy Overturned Roe v. Wade

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

Reversing pro-abortion beliefs could take decades. But then, so too did the great democratic struggle to reverse the great injustice of Roe v. Wade. In bringing the country to this portentous moment, the pro-life movement has taken its place in the grand tradition of social activism that is a hallmark of the American experience. Read More ›

^{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
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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 ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 15, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Wesley J. Smith Discusses Dutch Court Decision to Strike Down Measure that Expands Euthanasia Laws

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 15, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

A court has struck down a measure to expand euthanasia laws in the Netherlands 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 ›

^{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 ›