…is, we’ll treat it with all the respect the article deserves – as I did with this one. Addendum – for another take-down of this mess, check out Wesley Smith’s ‘Assisted Suicide as a “Last Resort” Fantasy.’…
…rmation in the article aren’t the point of this essay. In any case, Wesley Smith has already written that kind of post – and I’m not sure what more I could add to it. For now, I’d like to point out the total lack of critical analysis that was applied to the discussion of terminology in the article. It might also help some people understand why many nonreligious disability activists like myself have been opposing assisted suicide advocacy for years…
…f Thomas Youk, which he taped and Mike Wallace televised; and an attentive Wesley Smith realized Kevorkian confessed to the direct killing of his first “client,” Janet Good. Just using information from the January 19 article on Lawrence Egbert in the Washington Post magazine, we learn a few things about Egbert from Egbert: Egbert says he’s been “present” for over 100 suicides and “approved” of about 300 suicides. In addition to nonterminally ill p…
…th Disabilities. That’s no excuse to leave the document – and its mandates – out of the discussion. –Stephen Drake h/t Wesley Smith…
…d maybe more “useful” dead than alive when their organs are seen as more valuable than they themselves are. –Stephen Drake h/t to Wesley Smith at Secondhand Smoke….
