“The Culture of Death is Heroin”

I have a piece in the new Center for Bioethics and the Culture Newsletter, expanding on my earlier SHS comment about a new “how-to-commit-suicide” book in the Netherlands. It is a pretty good nutshell summary of the collapse of Dutch medical ethics and what happens when euthanasia is is accepted as a legitimate answer to the problem of human suffering. Check it out.

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