Bioethics at the Oscars
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the big news coming out of the Academy Awards last night is the mixup regarding the Best Picture winner. Even without that, though, you probably wouldn’t have heard much about a...
Read MoreTag: Palliative Care
Centralized Healthcare Hurts the Dying
We should look with great trepidation at the experience of the NHS for what Obamacare’s centralized control is bringing our way–I mean beyond bitter societal division currently tearing the country apart. The care of the dying...
Read MoreChild Euthanasia in the U.K.?
Euthanasia is a virulent affliction of the modern era. (For one of the reasons why, see my current First Things column.) The Netherlands allows euthanasia down to age 12 and so tolerates infanticide–technically murder under the...
Read MoreWho Cares What Great Palliative Docs Think?
The greatest palliative care physicians of our era are (or were) against assisted suicide. Dame Cecily Saunders–one of the great medical humanitarians in history for creating the modern hospice movement–told me that she saw...
Read MoreFolly for UK to Legalize Assisted Suicide With Palliative Care Failure
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The modern hospice movement began in the United Kingdom, thanks to the calling and energies of the late, great medical humanitarian, Dame Cecily Saunders. But now, a...
Read MoreMore Than Raw Information Checklists Needed for Good Palliative Care
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC As I watch Compassion and Choices (once the Hemlock Society), it appears to have a couple of long term goals. First and foremost, of course, is the complete legalization of...
Read More