Bioethicist Wesley Smith posted the article in italics below on the website of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (http://www.cbc-network.org/2013/01/bioethicist-lets-find-a-way-to-kill-alzheimers-patients/). It is a critique of an article in the Hastings Center Report that advocates euthanasia for people with Alzheimer’s. We know that a woman with Alzheimer’s was euthanized in 2011 in the Netherlands. […]
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Bioethicist: Let’s Find a Way to Kill Alzheimer’s Patients!
Posted in Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia on January 21, 2013 | Comments Off
More on Blindness and Deafness as Reasons Not to Live
Posted in Animal euthanasia argument, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Disability Rights Groups' Opposition, Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia, True Dignity on January 18, 2013 | Comments Off
Steven Drake of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet has written two great articles reacting to the news of 45 year old deaf twins who were “voluntarily” euthananized in Belgium because they were going blind. The men were not terminally ill, yet they met the Belgian legal criteria for euthanasia because of the “grave […]
Wesley Smith: Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Activists’ Hunger for Death is Insatiable
Posted in Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia on December 13, 2011 | Comments Off
We have written numerous times about the continuing push in Oregon and Washington to eliminate regulations and broaden the category of those eligible for assisted suicide. On his Second Hand Smoke blog today, bioethicist Wesley Smith offers a terrible Google translation of a petition by Belgian activists to make minors eligible for euthanasia and to […]
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At Least Some Assisted Suicide Proponents in Vermont Really Want Euthanasia
Posted in Commentary, Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia, True Dignity on February 13, 2012 | Comments Off
On January 30, 2012, the Times Argus published a heartbreaking letter from the mother of a severely disabled man who lived 29 years before dying when she refused treatement for him. The letter advocates the enactment of the assisted suicide bill now stuck (hopefully for the rest of the session) in the Vermont Senate by […]
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