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Mentally Ill Woman Euthanized in Canada

By Wesley J. Smith I did a radio interview yesterday warning that I expected Canada to, one day, allow euthanasia as a “treatment” for serious mental illness. Today, I find out it already happened. A court apparently allowed a mentally ill woman to be euthanized. From...

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Canada Push To Allow Mentally Ill Euthanasia

By Wesley J. Smith Euthanasia/assisted suicide is NOT about terminal illness. The issue is about normalizing killing as a response to human suffering. Sure, the initial sales pitch would restrict doctor-administered or prescribed death to the dying. But that’s just to...

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Anorexic Woman Allowed to Starve Herself to Death

By Wesley J. Smith We have reached the point that indisputably mentally ill people are being allowed to commit suicide or to die from their terrible psychiatric afflictions. In Belgium, a chronic self-harmer was voluntarily euthanized and organ harvested. In...

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Killing the Mentally Ill in Netherlands

By Wesley J. Smith The Netherlands considers itself oh, so rational. Its laws around controversial social issues involve the concept of harm reduction. Harm reduction? Once the country accepted killing as an answer to suffering, it was sure to include the mentally...

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They Kill the Mentally Ill Don’t They?

  By Wesley J. Smith Back in 2012, I warned that a Dutch psychiatric journal was urging its readers to increase their euthanasia kill rate of mentally ill patients. And so they have. Hard on the heels of Belgium legalizing child euthanasia, the Netherlander...

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