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euthanasia

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
November 21, 2020
Categorized
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician
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Dutch Doctors Can Now Drug Dementia Patients Before Killing Them to Prevent Resistance

Wesley J. Smith
November 21, 2020
A few years ago, Dutch doctor Marinou Arends attended to her dementia patient in a nursing home. Arends wasn’t there to treat her, but to kill her via lethal injection. Read More ›
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 17, 2020
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Euthanasia
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Assisted Suicide is Never a Treatment for Mental Illness

Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2020
Addressing the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith said that activists and pressure groups often use fear, in particular fear-mongering on the difficulties of death, to push through their agenda. Read More ›
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desperate man in silhouette sitting on the bed with hands on head
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 14, 2020
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Patient Care
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Autonomy or Abandoning the Mentally Ill?

Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2020
A U.K. woman with anorexia is in danger of starving to death and courts there will not allow force-feeding to save her life because she has decision-making capacity. Read More ›
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