Wesley J. Smith

I had decidedly mixed feelings about the late George Carlin: I didn’t like him and I thought he was hilarious. The San Francisco Chronicle’s obituary today had excerpts from his routines. This one cracked me up—particularly with my 59th birthday approaching fast:“Older” . . . . Continue Reading »

This is such a non story in the broader scheme of things, that there seems no reason for it to be spotlighted on the world’s premier news clearing house—the Drudge Report. A 15 year-old girl was apparently being pimped in New York. What a shock! It is awful, but alas, it—and far . . . . Continue Reading »

I did a radio show on WASU in Wisconsin this morning and we focused primarily on hospice care. The call-in response was strong: People were clearly interested and concerned.Then, when I checked my e-mail, I a link to a video about “how to die,” by my friend, the hospice physician and . . . . Continue Reading »

ALS, called Lou Gehrig’s disease in the USA and motor neurone disease in the UK, is the bloody flag often waved by euthanasia activists as a reason to legalize mercy killing. “Of course he wants to die,” they will say. and then some will assert falsely and cruelly that death from . . . . Continue Reading »

This is not a post about the realities—or lack thereof—of man-caused global warming. It is about the rising hubris of “the scientists” who seem to think they are entitled to rule the world.NASA scientist James Hanson has called for the jailing of oil executives for . . . . Continue Reading »

It is tempting to put on my quavering old man voice and say, “In my day, teenagers would never get pregnant on purpose. Heck, in my day teenagers didn’t even have sex.”Laugh if you will, but it was generally true. Most of us necked and petted almost to the point of frenzy, but we . . . . Continue Reading »

A private member’s bill (C-562) has been introduced in the Canadian Parliament. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but our good friend Alex Schadenberg, head of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is on the case. From his blog:• The bill legalizes euthanasia and assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

The controversy over whether brain dead is really dead may have just heated up with a peer reviewed article in Spinal Cord ((2008) 46, 396-40. (I don’t have a link.)The author, a Greek physician named KG Karakatsanis, concludes that declaration of death by neurological criteria is not reliable . . . . Continue Reading »

You have what almost amounts to death on demand in the Netherlands already with its euthanasia law, and it is still not enough. Now, some Dutch doctors have made detailed instructions for committing suicide available to the general public. From the story in the British Medical Journal (only link is . . . . Continue Reading »

After three doctors resigned rather than maintain—and thus, extend—the life of the catastrophically ill Samuel Golubchuk, an unnamed physician has agreed to provide the wanted care. From the story: Three doctors at the city’s Grace Hospital have refused to continue providing care . . . . Continue Reading »