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1. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Wesley J. Smith

   Alzheimer’s Patients in the Crosshairs of VSED—Suicide by Self-Starvation (opens the original)

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   My mother died of Alzheimer’s disease at the ripe old age of 99. With invaluable help from hospice, my wife and I cared for her in our home for the last five months of her life. Was it difficult? Very. Does that matter? No. Mom deserved the best care available regardless of her mental incapacity. My mother’s brother also died of Alzheimer’s. He received excellent care in the memory unit of a Baptist-affiliated assisted living facility for the last year of his life. Was it difficult? Very. Does t

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2. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Wesley J. Smith

   ‘Death by Organ Donation’ Pushed in Prestigious Medical Journals (opens the original)

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   Rev. Richard John Neuhaus famously wrote that bioethicists “professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on its way to becoming the justifiable until it is finally established as the unexceptional.” He was right. Radical bioethical policies don’t just appear like magic out of the ether. Controversial—even pernicious—ideas are often debated in bioethics and medical journals where few among the public ever see them. Then, if a general consensus is reached within the fi

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