Tag: MAiD

woman with lily flowers and coffin at funeral

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 6, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician

Tagged
, assisted suicide, Dr. Philip Nitschke, Eric Mathison, euthanasia, Final Exit Network, Germany, MAiD, medical aid in dying, suicide, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

“Nonmedical” Assisted Suicide This Way Comes

_{Wesley J. Smith

September 6, 2024

Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

Certain strains of the euthanasia-advocacy movement believe doctors don't need to be involved when someone wants to die. For example, the fanatics of Final Exit Network have taught people how to kill themselves, with a couple convicted of assisting via helium. Read More ›

Medical students walking through corridor

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 19, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician

Tagged
, assisted suicide, Association of American Medical Colleges, Hippocratic Oath, MAiD, medical aid in dying}

Association of American Medical Colleges Journal Pushes for Residencies in Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith

August 19, 2024

Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

In California, the Stutter Family Residency Medical Program even offers residencies to train doctors in assisted suicide. Chillingly, most of the doctors who participated in a small study on assisted suicide and who prescribe poison as part of their job like it. Read More ›

Three gravestones standing in a foggy graveyard during the fall

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 13, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician

Tagged
, Canada, euthansia, MAiD, medical assistance in dying}

Euthanasia Fifth-Leading Cause of Death in Canada

_{Wesley J. Smith

August 13, 2024

Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

Euthanasia is homicide. Such (legal) killings by doctors and nurses now constitute the fifth-leading cause of death north of the 49th Parallel. It was even worse in 2023, with more than 15,000 people lethally injected according to preliminary data. Read More ›

Weight loss fail concept. Scale and depressed, frustrated and sad woman sitting on floor holding head and arms on knees.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 2, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician

Tagged
, anorexia, assisted dying, assisted suicide, assisted suicide legalization, autism spectrum disorder, cognitive distortion, Death with Dignity Report, eating disorders, euthanasia, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Joint Statement against Assisted Suicide for Eating Disorders, MAiD, mental disorders, mental illness, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, Oregon, personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, Wesley J. Smith}

At Least 60 People With Eating Disorders Euthanized or Assisted in Suicide Since 2012

_{Wesley J. Smith

August 2, 2024

Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

A very disturbing — but, alas, unsurprising — report has been published from a review of medical studies that demonstrates that at least 60, but almost surely more, people with eating disorders (EDs) have been euthanized or assisted in suicide between 2012 and 2024. This includes at least three patients from the U.S. Read More ›

A professional physician in a white medical uniform talks to discuss results or symptoms and gives a recommendation to a male patient and signs a medical paper at an appointment visit in the clinic.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 15, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician

Tagged
, assisted suicide, California, Canada, doctor-prescribed death, Doctors, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, Journal of Cutaneous Oncology, MAiD, medical aid in dying, national review, suffering, terminal illness, utilitarian bioethics, Wesley J. Smith}

Survey: MDs Support Expanding Assisted Suicide Beyond the Terminally Ill

_{Wesley J. Smith

July 15, 2024

Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

The myth that legal assisted suicide is about terminal illness is becoming harder to swallow. Evidence can be found in a recent survey of doctors, published in the Journal of Cutaneous Oncology, which asked doctors this question: "In addition to adults with terminal illnesses, [which] other groups of patients who should be MAID eligible?" Read More ›

Black stethoscope on Canada flag background, Business and finance concept.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 10, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician

Tagged
, A Chosen Death, abortion, abortion provider, assisted suicide, BBC, Better off Dead?, Canada, disability rights, doctor-assisted death, Dr. Ellen Wiebe, ethics of medicine, euthanasia, Hemlock Society, Liz Carr, Lonnie Shavelson, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, National Post, national review, Sharon Kirkey, Trudo Lemmens, University of Toronto, Wesley J. Smith}

Canadian Death Doctor Has Euthanized Hundreds of Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith

July 10, 2024

Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

Legalizing euthanasia corrupts everything — the ethics of medicine, the public's perception of people experiencing illness, disability, or elder frailty, the media that continually swoon over medics who kill. This latter phenomenon is on vivid display in a National Post story. Read More ›

Hospice Nurse Helps Old Lady With Mobile Phone Call

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 26, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician

Tagged
, assisted suicide, culture of death, Dame Cecily Saunders, death anxiety, end-of-life, European Court of Human Rights, hospice, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA), hospice patients, HPNA Position Statement: Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), MAiD, medical aid in dying, medical conscience, national review, palliative care, St. Christopher's Hospice, suicidal ideation, suicide prevention, terminal illnesses, Wesley J. Smith}

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Plans to Surrender to Assisted-Suicide Agenda

_{Wesley J. Smith

June 26, 2024

Euthanasia, Suicide by Physician}

When Dame Cecily Saunders created the modern hospice movement, she adamantly rejected assisted suicide as an acceptable hospice activity. Saunders would be spinning in her grave if she read the proposed policy around assisted suicide that has been published by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA). Read More ›

An empty hospital bed with dying flowers.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 21, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia, Human Dignity, Suicide by Physician

Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, cancer, Compassion and Choices, death activists, Disability, Doctors, elderly, end of life, euthanasia, healthcare, Hemlock Society, human dignity, intellectual disabilities, lethal injection, MAiD, medical aid in dying, medicalized killing, mental health support, mental illness, Netherlands, organ donation, organ harvesting, patients, PTSD, quality of life, suffering, suicide, suicide prevention, terminal illness, terminally ill, Trillium, Trillium Gift of Life Network, Wesley J. Smith}

Euthanasia Poisons People and Societies

_{Wesley J. Smith

March 21, 2024

Euthanasia, Human Dignity, Suicide by Physician}

Most of the media report on euthanasia in the glowing, uncritical language of empowered patients "dying peacefully on their own terms." In contrast, euthanasia abuses and horror stories—an ever-growing list—generally receive little focused media attention and remain outside the notice of people not engaged with the issue. Read More ›

Medical syringe in the doctor's hands on the patient's in room h

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 17, 2020

Categorized
Euthanasia

Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, Coronavirus, delirium, euthanasia, Germany, Groningen protocol, human experimentation, infanticide, Jack Kevorkian, Joseph Tushkowski, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, medical diagnosis, Michael Freeland, Netherlands, organ donation, pediatricians, Prescription Medicide, quadriplegia, sanctity-of-life ethic, The American Journal of Psychiatry, utilitarianism}

The Jack Kevorkian Plague

_{Wesley J. Smith

April 17, 2020

Euthanasia}

Death is in the air. No, I am not referring to the coronavirus. The pathogen I mean is a cultural pandemic, the embrace of doctor-prescribed suicide and of administered homicide as acceptable responses to human suffering. Let’s call it the “Jack Kevorkian Plague,” after the late pathologist who in the 1990s became world-famous by assisting the suicides of some 130 people. Before Kevorkian, the euthanasia movement was mostly a fringe phenomenon. After Kevorkian, although certainly not because of him alone, assisted suicide had been made legal in Oregon, and large swaths of the American public accepted the practice. Now, a mere 20 years later, lethal-injection euthanasia is legal and popular in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Doctor-assisted suicide Read More ›