By Dave Andrusko Next Monday, June 15, The British Broadcasting Corporation (the BBC) will air “Dara O’Briain meets Stephen Hawking.” I know nothing about O’Briain other than Arts Correspondent Hannah Furness describes him as “a comedian and broadcaster who has a...
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Hawking: Suicide if I Become a Burden, Can’t Contribute
By Wesley J. Smith I have been warning that the high-profile normalization of assisted suicide–and the media celebrating those who kill themselves in the face of disease–is leading toward an ethic in which people kill themselves to not be a ”burden,” in essence, a...
Stephen Hawking, “A Theory of Everything,” and what we can learn
By Dave Andrusko Watching the Golden Globe awards Sunday (a kind of precursor to the Oscars), I was reminded how, even more than usual, I had missed many very fine films in 2014. Among the winners was Eddie Redmayne in the "Best Actor in a Motion Picture,...
Stephen Hawking is a great scientist but his advice on decriminalising assisted suicide should be given short shrift
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. We first ran this last September. But with the province of Quebec having passed a law allowing for assisted suicide, this column was more relevant than ever. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian...
Stephen Hawking is a great scientist but his advice on decriminalising assisted suicide should be given short shrift
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. Scientist Professor Stephen Hawking has spoken out in...
BBC limbers up for new round of celebrity-led cheer-leading for assisted suicide
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. Euthanasia season has arrived and the pro-death lobby, aided...
Lessons from Stephen Hawking and Kathryn Higham about assisted suicide
By Dr. Peter Saunders Congratulations to Stephen Hawking internationally renowned Cambridge physicist, who turned 70 this week. Hawking is probably the world’s most famous sufferer of motor neurone disease (MND) and apart from his contributions to science has also...