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Not Your Body, Not Your Choice: A Response to Assisted Suicide
Illinois is considering a bill to legalize assisted suicide. Now, the surface-level reason for so-called "death with dignity" is that those who suffer from very painful, terminal conditions should be allowed to skip the pain if they are going to die anyway.
Posted in Faith, Illinois Politics, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Assisted Suicide, Christianity, Illinois, suicide
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How Does Assisted Suicide Affect You?
Currently, 15 U.S. states are considering legislation that would legalize assisted suicide, and five states, where the practice is already legal, are considering legislation aimed at expanding it. We must understand that legalizing the practice, even with “guardrails,” changes the way a society thinks and acts.
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Tagged 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, Assisted Suicide, Education and Treatment Act, Illinois Suicide Prevention Alliance, Illinois Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan, Journal of Ethics in Mental Health, Linda Holmes, Matthew Eppinette, Southern Medical Journal, suicide contagion, The Suicide Prevention
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Assisted Suicide In Illinois: A Christian Response
Assisted suicide is incompatible with biblical teaching. Human life is sacred, and suffering has a divine purpose. While believers must be compassionate toward those who suffer, we must also stand firm against assisted suicide as an affront to God’s sovereignty.
Posted in Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions, Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Assisted Suicide, Illinois, Sanctity of Life
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When Personal Autonomy Becomes Your Moral Arbiter
Personal autonomy is not a great moral standard, but culture treats it like it is. Although not a new idea, its increasing prevalence and the rate at which it is being used to make moral decisions brings it into the spotlight.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality
Tagged Assisted Suicide, Freedom, Personal autonomy
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Choose You This Day: Part 2
The atheistic Left began their assault on America over seventy years ago. Their progress was quite slow in the beginning, and one must give them credit for their determination. They have not quit to this day! A principal actor in this effort has been the Communist Party USA, but it is only one of numerous Leftist groups seeking to divide and destroy this great nation (They all lean Marxist).
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality
Tagged Abortion, America, Assisted Suicide, Atheism, Christianity, faith, Left, Marxism, pregnancy
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Legalizing Assisted Suicide is Reprehensible
There is a terrible proposal in Springfield being shopped around right now behind closed doors – a bill to legalize assisted suicide in Illinois. Just days before the General Assembly adjourns, certain members are trying to rush a measure through so the Governor can sign it into law. Even with their supermajority, far-left legislators know very well that if "We, the People" could actually see their bill, it would likely kill their chances to pass the bill. Hence, they are keeping the bill under wraps by secretly rounding up the votes for assisted suicide first and then unveiling the legislation for the rest of us to see right before an 11th-hour vote. This is Illinois.
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Tagged Assisted Suicide, physician-assisted suicide
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Psychiatrists Call for Assisted Suicide for Patients with Anorexia
Psychiatrists Call for Assisted Suicide for Patients with Anorexia Terminal illness is a difficult subject for most people to approach. No one wants to think of themselves or their loved ones suffering from a debilitating illness. Patients with these diagnoses worry about the pain and decreasing levels of independence and hope to limit the suffering they and their families may experience. However, some politicians and physicians believe that assisted suicide is a solution to end the suffering of these terminal patients. After years of debate, several states have legalized physician-assisted suicide. Now, members of the medical community would like to extend the definition of terminal illness to include several mental illnesses, including anorexia nervosa.
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Tagged Anorexia, Assisted Suicide
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Marketing Death and Alzheimer’s Disease
An April, 2019 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Death From Individuals Who Learn They Have an Alzheimer Disease Biomarker” found that approximately 20% of cognitively normal older adults who had elevated beta-amyloid — a biomarker that is thought to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease — said they would consider physician-assisted suicide if they experienced a cognitive decline. Not everyone with amyloid plaques goes on to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
Although no state with legalized physician-assisted suicide currently allows lethal overdoses for people with Alzheimer’s or other dementia, Emily Largent, JD, PhD, …
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Tagged Alzheimer's, Assisted Suicide, Compassion and Choices, Death Cafes, dementia, economics, Ellen Goodman, Emily Largent, Hemlock Society, Journal of the American Medical Association, Living wills, medical ethics, nursing, The Conversation Project
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Medically Assisted Death and the Family Caregiver
While the debate continues as more states adopt paths for medically assisted deaths, family caregivers remain virtually omitted from the conversation and care. The lid of this Pandora’s Box is opening wider as Christians flounder in sharing a biblically founded position. History shows when governments draw and then move this line about the value of life, then it can cause genocide (Germany) and infanticide (abortion). Quality of life and suffering remain subjective. Death, however, is not.
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Prescribed Suicide: Past, Present, and Future
Come join in a thoughtful mealtime discussion as we return to the original idea of a symposium – a philosophical banquet – and share with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare leaders on what inspires them to improve the human environment surrounding their practice.
Featuring: Rita Marker, founder and executive director to The Patients Rights Council
Panelists:
Rebecca Davis Mathias, Ph.D., Ethicist at St. Anthony Hospital in Chicago, Consulting Ethicist for the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago Service Corporation, Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at Dominican University in River Forest, and Board Member for the Integritas Institute.
Mark Grzeskowiak, MD
Sean O’Mahony, …
Tagged Assisted Suicide, Connor Danstrom, Joseph N. Perry, Mark Grzeskowiak, Mark Keen, Rebecca Davis Mathias, Sean O'Mahony
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“Rational” Suicide and the “Elderly”
An article in the May, 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society titled “Rational Suicide in Elderly Adults: A Clinician’s Perspective” by Meera Balasubramaniam, MD, MPH recently appeared in both medical and nursing news sources.
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Tagged Assisted Suicide, Culture, disability, Meera Balasubramaniam
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“Fatal Flaws”: A Must-See Film
With the American Medical Association considering changing its’ long-standing opposition to physician-assisted suicide despite the recommendations of its’ ethics committee and the California assisted suicide law declared unconstitutional now reinstated pending appeal, assisted suicide/euthanasia groups like Compassion and Choices (the well-funded former Hemlock Society) are ramping up efforts nationwide to legalize assisted suicide.
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Tagged Alfie Evans, American Medical Association, Assisted Suicide, Compassion and Choices, Fatal Flaws, Hemlock Society, Kevin Dunn, National Right to Life, The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
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