The Great Terri Schiavo Divide
Wesley J. Smith At the end of this month, Terri Schiavo will be ten years dead. But she is far from forgotten. Everyone reading these […]
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POLST: When “Doctor’s Orders” Mean Death
Last April I attended a community forum on the topic of “Health Care Decisions at the End of Life,” conducted by medical professionals from a
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Active Euthanasia, End-of-Life IssuesFrom the Executive Director: When Life Needs a Healing Hand
In the late 1990s, LLDF became involved with its first of many cases in which health care providers attempted to remove food and fluids from
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Active Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, End-of-Life Care Considerations, End-of-Life IssuesComplimentary Seminar–Active Killing: What the Law Allows
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Active Euthanasia, End-of-Life IssuesActive Killing: What The Law Allows (Agenda)
11: 30 am -Doors open; registration (15 min) 11:45 am -Begin Session I The common conflicts Legalized Killing: A Slippery Slope Indicators: Assisted
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Active Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, End-of-Life IssuesWhen Doctors Give Warning
Wesley J. Smith There is more than one way to skin a cat, the old politically incorrect saying goes. There is also more than one
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Active Euthanasia, Advance Medical Directives, Assisted Suicide, Denial of Appropriate Medical Care, End-of-Life Care Considerations, End-of-Life Issues, LifelineAt the Bottom of the Slippery Slope: Where Euthanasia Meets Organ Harvesting
by Wesley J Smith In 1992, my friend Frances committed suicide on her 76th birthday. Frances was not terminally ill. She had been diagnosed with
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Active Euthanasia, Advance Medical Directives, Assisted Suicide, End-of-Life IssuesRemembering Terri Schindler Schiavo
This year marks six years since the tragic and untimely death of Terri Schindler Schiavo by dehydration and starvation at the hands of her husband.
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Active Euthanasia, Advance Medical Directives, Denial of Appropriate Medical Care, End-of-Life Care Considerations, End-of-Life Issues, MainAssisted Suicide: Why Now?
Wesley J Smith Since 1988, when euthanasia advocates failed to qualify for a legalization initiative on the California ballot, the assisted suicide movement in the
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Active Euthanasia, Assisted SuicideTechnological Morality: The top ten bioethics stories of the decade
Wesley J Smith As we come to the end of the first tenth of the 21st century, pundits are making lists about the decade just
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Active Euthanasia, hESCR -- (human Embryonic Stem Cell Research)Protect Loved Ones and Yourself from Euthanasia
In the wake of Terri Schiavo’s imposed death by dehydration and starvation, pro-life leaders are urging people to protect their own lives and the lives
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Active Euthanasia, End-of-Life IssuesNow They Want to Euthanize Children
Wesley J. Smith In the Netherlands, 31 percent of pediatricians have killed infants. A fifth of these killings were done without the “consent” of parents.
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A Visit with Terri Schiavo
By Attorney Barbara Weller, who represented Terri’s family This past Christmas Eve day, 2004, I went to visit Terri Schiavo with her parents, Bob and
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Active Euthanasia, Advance Medical Directives, Denial of Appropriate Medical Care, Fighting for LifeBeyond Terri’s Law: What We Can Learn from the Schiavo case
Wesley J Smith It is the calm before the storm in the Terri Schiavo case. The Florida woman, who was in the throes of a
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Active Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, End-of-Life IssuesSaying No to Assisted Suicide: The Attorney General Takes on Oregon
Wesley J Smith When Oregon Voters legalized assisted suicide in 1994, state regulators had a problem. They wanted to authorize doctors to prescribe barbiturates as
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