Wesley J. Smith

I just happened upon a good opinion piece by New York Times editor Dana Jennings. He is fighting prostate cancer with all of its difficulties and inconveniences—and through it all, his wife Deb has vividly exemplified why, as the Beatles so quaintly put it, all you need is love. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

The autopsy of Eluana Englaro shows she died of cardiac arrest. From the story: An autopsy performed on the controversial ‘right to die’ woman, Eluana Englaro, who died in Italy on Monday has shown she died of cardiac arrest, provoked by dehydration after her feeding tubes were removed . . . . Continue Reading »

A Canadian man is under arrest for assisted suicide in the death of his wife. She had no apparent illness. The couple were apparently suffering from very hard economic times, but precise details are not yet known. From the story:A 46-year-old Waterloo, Ont., man is scheduled to appear in provincial . . . . Continue Reading »

This photo was taken last October on the night the Human Life Foundation honored Rita Marker and me as Great Defenders of Life for our work fighting assisted suicide and euthanasia. Rita (on my right as you look at the photo) mentored me in this work so standing next to her at the podium was a real . . . . Continue Reading »

There has been a lot of off stage speculation about the actual cause of Eluana Englaro’s death—in which I intentionally did not engage—inspired by her death coming within days after the beginning of dehydration, a process that usually takes about two weeks. Now, an autopsy has been . . . . Continue Reading »

For years we have been told—and I sure used to believe—that the Canadians had the best approach to health care. Single payer funding, privately employed doctors—seemingly, a good mix. Except it’s not. From a column by Nadeem Esmail in yesterday’s Wall Street . . . . Continue Reading »

This is why people are so jaded and cynical about their own government. The economic stimulus bill that we are told is too important to really debate and must be passed NOW! NOW! NOW! contains sneak provisions opening the door to national health care. From a commentary by Betsy McCaughey: . . . . Continue Reading »

Eluana Englaro has died. From the story: Eluana Englaro, the 38-year-old comatose woman at the center of an Italian right-to-die case, died Monday night despite efforts by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to order doctors to feed her, the clinic said.She had been in a coma since a 1992 car crash. A . . . . Continue Reading »

For SHSers in Ireland or London, I will be on your side of the pond next week. I don’t have a fully detailed itinerary, but David Prentice and I will appear in either speech or debate formats at several Irish universities, including in Cork on the 17th, a university in Maynooth on the 18th, . . . . Continue Reading »

As Eluana Englar is being dehydrated to death, the Italian Parliament is debating a proposed law that would prohibit causing cognitively disabled people to die in this manner. From the story: Italian senators raced Monday to discuss a bill designed to keep a woman in vegetative state from having her . . . . Continue Reading »