This Blog considers assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, radical environmentalism, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)
See the truth of the euthanasia movement: Despite talk of "medical models," this is the true face of much of the grass roots euthanasia movement. More how to commit suicide classes. Philip Nitschke, who will be a faculty member, supports suicide for troubled teens. And many a dead teenager has been found to have committed suicide with the aid of Derek Humphry's book Final Exit.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 11:21 AM
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I am a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute and the author of 12 books, including A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy, which is relevant to the issues considered by this blog.
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Paragraph 1. Haven't a clue what you are talking about.
Paragraph 2. Shame on them.
Paragraph 3. I am glad Phillip Nitschke had to take a powder from Australia. Someday, maybe, he will be in jail.
Note to all: See, the death on demand crowd exists. They see suicide, for whatever reason, as a fundamental right of liberty. It is a dangerous and radical individualism that abandons those most in need of a compassionate and loving community.
Winston misses so many points. But she is consistent: death on demand. If you suffer, suicide is fine and we should help. Heartless since people can be helped, people change their mind, and it sends an insidious message about the worthlessness of human life if it is difficult.
My point in responding to your third paragraph was that I thought you were referring to Nitschke fleeing Australia. If not, I haven't a clue about what you meant.
People with motor neurone disease don't die a "torturous, slow death by suffocation" when they receive proper care and shame on you for saying they do. They die peacefully in their sleep.
Motor neurone disease (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease) is a terrible affliction and is often used as the bloody flag to scare people into accepting euthanasia.
My last hospice patient, who had ALS, would have some choice words for you, Winston Jen, and they would not have been to thank you, either.
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