Harvard Annual Bioethics Conference 2019 Update
This Thursday and Friday, the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics annual conference is Controlling Death? The policies, practices, and ethics of choosing when we die. It’s all about assisted…
Category: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Kevin Dunn at the Catholic Men’s Conference
Kevin Dunn started off the Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference, and it was a strong start. He gave a great talk about how we can be prophets of hope in today’s world. He told an amazing story about his personal live and discussed the highlights of his film, Fatal Flaws.
Are PAS Laws Safe?
Security is both a feeling and a reality, and they don’t always match. Security Theater is when you make things look safe in order to make people feel safe even…
We Cannot Let Patients Kill Themselves
This article appears in the February 1, 2019 edition of the Catholic Free Press The Massachusetts legislature has once again introduced a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Deemed the…
Not So Subtle Coercion
The Guardian newspaper recently published an extensive and informative article on euthanasia and assisted suicide, Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far? I have written about how coercion is…
Unmasking in the Assisted Suicide Debate
“It was not what you did that damned you; it was what you were.” Peter Baehr wrote an interesting article at Mercatornet about his research into unmasking. He begins by…
Opioids and Assisted Suicide
We’ve been told by assisted suicide advocates that doctors would prescribe lethal doses of opioids to their cancer patients who wanted “aid in dying,” or that patients would stockpile their…
What Does Coercion Look Like?
“You hold her down and I’ll give her the drink.” “Your condition is not worth treating. Let’s start the Medical Aid in Dying process.” This may be what people think…
Nature and dignity 