The “death with dignity” and bioethics crowds grow increasingly extreme. Now, they are pushing starvation. First, it was removing feeding tubes from the cognitively disabled, slow killing excused as removing medical treatment....
Read MoreI am in favor of advance directives. And I usually like Senator Tom Coburn, But this idea seems wrong-headed to me. Coburn has introduced the Medicare Choices Empowerment and Protection Act, that would pay Medicare beneficiaries...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Today is National Sign an Advance Directive Day, or something like that. And the stories are out trying to stimulate us to action. As I have noticed when proposals to...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Articles like this are ubiquitous these days: First, purportedly write about one thing that is entirely reasonable — but which, beneath that patina, is really about...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC There are advance medical directives — and then, there are advance medical directives. In other words, all are not equally useful or safe. Some — particularly...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC A lot of hot air, cyber material, and ink go into bemoaning the supposed lack of respect patients receive in the medical system for their advance medical decisions....
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