Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

assisted suicide, barbiturates, controlled substances, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, DEA, death, Death with Dignity, doctor shopping, doctors, euthanasia, house calls, lethal injection, Medicine, morphine, nurse practitioners, opiates, pandemic, patients, science, suicide, telehealth, telemedicine, terminal illness
What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions. Source
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Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

bioethics, Canada, cerebral palsy, Christiane Belzile, crime, Culture, Culture & Ethics, Edmonton Journal, euthanasia, euthanasia consciousness, Francois Belzile, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, manslaughter, Medicine, murder, Robert Latimer, science
Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Source
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End of the Road for Radical Individual “Re-Creationism”? Not So Fast

Alexandre Baril, body integrity identity disorder, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Connecticut, Culture & Ethics, eyesight, gender ideology, Leon Kass, lifestyle, limbs, Medicine, Middletown, National Post, Quebec, re-creationism, spinal cords, transability, transableism, transgenderism, University of Ottawa, Wesleyan University
Transableism is a relatively new term for what is known as BIID, for “body integrity identity disorder.” Source
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Listen: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on COVID-19 as One of the Most Divisive Events in American History

Big Tech, Center for Disease Control, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, factionalism, free speech, heterodoxy, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdown, Medicine, National Bureau of Economics Research, pandemic, Podcast, Politics, public health, science, Stanford University, Wesley Smith, World Health Organization
Action was taken to suppress heterodox voices. Wesley Smith’s guest is one of those caught in this cultural oppression. Source
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A Physician’s Fantastic Voyage through Your Designed Body

biology, bodily functions, Complexity, Darwinism, evolutionary theory, gradualism, hearing, Howard Glicksman, human body, Intelligent Design, interdependent systems, just-so stories, Medicine, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, physicians, Steve Laufmann, systems engineering, vision, Your Designed Body
Begin by piling up the layers of complexity in the human body — the layer upon layer of complex interdependent systems. Source
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