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Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide
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Suicide: Human Right or Human Tragedy?
July-August 2019On the one hand, we declare suicide a human right. On the other, we set up hotlines and billboards to prevent people from exercising this supposed right.
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All Aboard the Suicide Train
May 2016In the Netherlands an increasing number of patients now seek assisted dying because of dementia, psychiatric illnesses, and age-related complaints — in other words, non-terminal medical conditions.
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Dying Without Dignity & Other End-of-Life Scares
July-August 2015Disability advocates like those at Not Dead Yet and Second Thoughts find their own lives well worth living and filled with dignity.
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Rushing Death
December 2012The elderly and the under-pressure organ donor have reason to distrust the falsely compassionate, as advocates of legalized euthanasia threaten to undermine the foundation of medical care as we've known it.
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True Medical Care or the Law of the Jungle?
September 2010In "Incapacity and Care" we find a powerful and unanswerable defense of the dignity of the most helpless and vulnerable among us.
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State-Sanctioned Suicide & Ecclesiastical Funerals
June 2009In light of the trend toward legalizing physician-assisted suicide in the U.S., might some reconsideration of the funeral ban for suicides be in order?
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On Death & Dying & Terri Schiavo
July/August 2005Her cause of death was starvation and dehydration. Her manner of death was euthanasia. If I were to euthanize my cat the way Mrs. Schiavo was euthanized, I could be jailed.
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The Catholic University of Louvain In Belgium (Part II)
October 2003Have professors at the University of Louvain lost sight of the abysmal difference between a sin and a non-moral evil — such as poverty, sickness, a natural disaster?
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Cheap Grace in Holland
January 2002John Allen insists that while the Dutch tolerate vice, they don't necessarily approve of it.
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The Return of the Physician-Executioner
September 2001We would do well to heed the lesson of Deuteronomy 30:19 (Choose life…"), rather than the teachings of "ethicists" who cannot distinguish human babies from fish.
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The Dangers of 'Cognitive Psychology'
November 2000Psychology does not live up to expectations of theoretical discussion. Catholic doctrine is sound and actually “fills gaps” left by psychology.
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When Death Is Our Physician
December 1999Assisted-suicide guidelines are ignored routinely or have been expanded to the point where they are ephemeral.
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Running to Do Evil
June 1999This interesting sin, based on Proverbs 6:18, means embracing evil enthusiastically instead of being drawn into it reluctantly.
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The Modern World's Attempt to Beautify Sin & Death
February 1998Sin and crime, no matter how legalized, how euphemized, how tolerated, will always in the end reveal their association with loathsomeness and horror.
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What the Pope Called the 'Culture of Death' Is Actually a Syndicate of Death
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The Treatment of Handicapped Infants
March 1984Wide-scale prenatal screening procedures brought about a “free-fire zone” on the defective child throughout all three stages of gestation.
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