Court Won’t Order Woman with Alzheimer’s Starved
I am very relieved, and mildly surprised.A family that sought a court order requiring a nursing...
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Alzheimer’s Death in Swiss Suicide Clinic
The logic of assisted suicide pushes with the force of gravity to virtual death-on-demand. It starts with advocacy for allowing doctor-prescribed suicide for the imminently terminally ill for whom — supposedly —...
Read MoreBioethicist: Let’s Find a Way to Kill Alzheimer’s Patients!
Don’t anyone tell me that the mercy killing imperative and cost containment aren’t mixed — driven by a pernicious “quality of life” ethic that denigrates and demeans the moral value of the most weak...
Read MoreShould We Kill Alzheimer’s Patients?
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC A very disturbing article in New York Magazine by Michael Wolff. It tells the difficult story of his mother’s dementia, a course of physical and mental decline about...
Read More‘Till Alzheimer’s Do Us Part
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Pat Robertson approves of seeing “other people” and/or divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s because it is a “kind of death.” From a 700 Club...
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Patients Deserve a “Rain Forest” Solution
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC My uncle died of Alzheimer’s. I hate that I felt the need to give my bona fides, but in an age where emotional narratives usually rule over reason, it is sometimes...
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