Humanize From Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism
Topic

end of life issues

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Kitchen waste recycling in composter
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 27, 2022
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Human Dignity
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Composting the Dead Devalues the Importance of the Living

Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2022
Human Dignity
Starting in 2027, California will allow composting of the dead. Known officially as “natural organic reduction (NOR),” this novel final disposition process transforms the deceased’s body into soil to spread on gardens or in which to plant flowers or a tree. Read More ›
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Premature newborn baby girl
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 15, 2022
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Bioethics
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Baby Tinslee Survives Hospital’s Attempt to Push Her Off Life Support

Wesley J. Smith
April 15, 2022
Bioethics
If it were up to the doctors, Tinslee Lewis would have been in her grave before age one. Instead, in a legal and advocacy triumph affirming the proper relationship between patient/family and doctors, the intrinsic equal dignity of the seriously ill—as well as a testament to the power of a mother’s love—the now 3-year-old Tinslee has gone home, still ill but very much alive. Read More ›
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podcast
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Jackson Meyer
Date
April 11, 2022
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Lynn Vincent on ‘Lawless,’ the Truth About the Terri Schiavo Case, and Why Terri Still Matters

Lynn Vincent
April 11, 2022

When Terri Schiavo collapsed with a cardiac arrest in 1990, she could have had no idea that 32 years later people all over the world would know her name and care very much about the manner in which she died. What began as a private family tragedy ultimately exploded into an international cultural conflagration and what was perhaps the most Read More ›

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human lung in plastic dome during organ transplant
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post
Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
January 30, 2022
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Euthanasia
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Spain Joins the Euthanize-and-Organ-Harvest Club

Wesley J. Smith
January 30, 2022
Euthanasia
In my first anti-euthanasia column, written for Newsweek in 1993, I warned that if assisted suicide/euthanasia became legal and normalized, it would lead to “organ harvesting thrown in as a plum to society.” Needless to say, I was called a fear monger, alarmist, and hysteric — and those were the polite hate mailers. Read More ›
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Ventilator monitor and african american female patient in hospital bed with oxygen ventilator
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post
Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
January 22, 2022
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COVID-19
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Hospital Loses ‘Futile Care’ Attempt to Force Covid Patient Off Life Support

Wesley J. Smith
January 22, 2022
COVID-19
“Futile care” is a pronounced threat to patient autonomy and the equality of all human life. This is the idea. When doctors think that the quality of a patient’s life is not worth living — but the patient, family, or surrogate want care to continue — doctors can overrule patients and terminate wanted life-sustaining treatment. Read More ›
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Close-up doctor obstetrician nurse cutting umbilical cord with medical scissors to newborn infant baby. Medical surgeon giving birth to child. New human life begin. delivery labor childbirth hospital
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post
Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 30, 2021
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Euthanasia
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Doctors Kill 10 Percent of All Babies Who Die in Flanders

Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2021
Euthanasia
There is no such thing as a little euthanasia. Granting doctors (and, increasingly, nurses) a license to kill eventually corrupts medicine — from the beginning of life to the far reaches of old age. Those with eyes to see, let them see. Read More ›
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NICU BABY
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 25, 2021
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Euthanasia
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Baby’s Parents Refuse to End Life Support, Lose Custody to State

Wesley J. Smith
September 25, 2021
Euthanasia
Keaton Crull, a three-month-old baby from Indiana being treated in Kentucky, is about to be removed from life support over his parents’ objections. That’s because they no longer have a say. Their parental rights over his medical decisons were stripped–and it looks like that drastic step might have been taken because they refused to give up on him. Read More ›
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Crying Newborn Cut Umbilical Cord
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post
Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 2, 2021
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Abortion
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Brit Baby’s Death Ruled Better Than Small Chance of Living — Again

Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2021
Abortion
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 ›
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Man in prison hands of behind hold Steel cage jail bars. offender criminal locked in jail. filter dark vintage.
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post
Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
July 10, 2021
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Patient Care
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Court Wrong to Okay Refusal of Life-Saving Medication to Prisoners

Wesley J. Smith
July 10, 2021
Patient Care
This is outrageous. Kentucky denied a prisoner with hepatitis a life-saving drug that always works — because of the expense. Now, a court of appeals ruling finds that the move is constitutional. Read More ›
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Image by Silas Camargo Silão from Pixabay
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post
Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
June 2, 2021
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Euthanasia
Suicide by Physician
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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 ›
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