Category: Euthanasia

Netherlands healthcare concept. Medical stethoscope with country flag

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 7, 2021
Euthanasia}

Dutch Death Doctors Pitch the Euthanasia Bull

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 7, 2021
Euthanasia}

Dutch euthanasia enthusiasts always pretend that doctors there commit homicide by lethal injection “only as a last resort” when nothing else can be done to eliminate “unbearable suffering.” What a pile of manure! Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 2, 2021
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

Florida Hospital Sues to End Ill Nurse’s Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 2, 2021
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

“Futile care” — the forced removal by doctors and hospital bioethics committees of wanted life-extending treatment over patient and family objections — is, alas, still the law of Texas. And now a hospital in Florida has sued for the right to do the same thing to Genea Bristol, age 41. Read More ›

Definition of word euthanasia in dictionary

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 21, 2021
Euthanasia}

Psychiatrist: Refusing Euthanasia for Mentally Ill Discrimination

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 21, 2021
Euthanasia}

It used to be that psychiatrists and psychologists strived to prevent mentally ill people from committing suicide. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2021
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

Euthanizing the Mentally Ill

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2021
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

Should psychiatrists and other doctors assist the suicides of mentally ill patients? Not that long ago, the answer to that question would have been unequivocally, “No” The job of a mental health professional is to save the lives of suicidal patients, not help them die. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 8, 2021
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

Wesley J. Smith Testimony Before the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee in Support of SB 917

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 8, 2021
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

The primary purpose of SB 917 is to prevent unilateral forced withdrawals—over the objection of patients and/or families—of wanted life-extending treatment based on doctors’ beliefs about the quality of the patient’s life. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 3, 2021
Euthanasia}

The Atlantic Boosts Assisted-Suicide Doctors, Pushes Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 3, 2021
Euthanasia}

The media love to boost assisted suicide. They laud people who commit it — witness their swoon over the late Brittany Maynard — and the doctors who are willing to lethally prescribe or give lethal injections. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 26, 2021
Euthanasia}

Dutch MD Describes Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 26, 2021
Euthanasia}

Euthanasia homicide is conjoined with organ harvesting in at least three countries — Canada, the Netherlands, and Belgium. In the latter two, the donors who are killed are sometimes mentally ill, not physically sick. Or, they might be disabled. Read More ›

Doctor in blue uniform with stethoscope attached to handcuffed at the wrist.

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 11, 2021
Conscience, Euthanasia}

California Bill to Force M.D. Participation in Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 11, 2021
Conscience, Euthanasia}

When activists successfully legalized assisted suicide in California, they persuaded the California Medical Association to shift from opposition to neutrality with the promise that no doctor would be forced to participate. But here’s the thing with assisted suicide: Such promises are made to be broken. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 26, 2021
Euthanasia}

Now Hawaii Wants Non-Physician-Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 26, 2021
Euthanasia}

Always remember that the first iteration of assisted-suicide legalization is not the last iteration. Over time — and once people get used to doctors prescribing for suicide or giving lethal jabs — the laws are loosened to make more people eligible to die, or to expand the cadre of medical professionals entitled to end patient’s lives. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2021
Euthanasia}

Washington Bill to Let Non-Doctors Participate in Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2021
Euthanasia}

When selling the legalization of assisted suicide, activists always promise that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. Read More ›