Tag: euthanasia

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 28, 2021
Suicide by Physician}

Why the Hawaii Health Department Wants Looser Assisted-Suicide Rules

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 28, 2021
Suicide by Physician}

Please understand, dear readers, that when assisted-suicide advocates promise strict guidelines to protect against abuse, they don’t really mean it. The promise’s purpose is to get the law passed, not to be kept. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Patient Care}

Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Patient Care}

We have entered the era of what I call “do harm medicine,” in which the concept of what constitutes harming the patient has become entirely malleable and subjective. I even wrote a book covering that subject. Read More ›

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 ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2021
Bioethics}

Jahi McMath Was Not Brain Dead

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2021
Bioethics}

Readers may recall the sad case of Jahi McMath out of Oakland, Calif. In 2013, Jahi experienced a severe bleeding event after throat surgery and a subsequent cardiac arrest. She was successfully resuscitated, but her brain was catastrophically injured from loss of oxygen. Doctors at Oakland Children’s Hospital declared her brain dead and announced plans to remove Jahi from life support. 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 ›