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🗓️ 13 November 2024
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“When a country or a state legalizes assisted suicide or euthanasia, it can no longer call itself anti-suicide, because it specifically approves some suicides. ... It’s a very dangerous movement that is normalizing this kind of approach to dying as opposed to natural death.”
In this episode, I sit down with Wesley J. Smith, a lawyer, public speaker, award-winning author, and chair of the Discovery Institute Center on Human Exceptionalism.
“We’re seeing in Canada also the beginning of a situation where patients who have a tough time getting an oncologist because of such a long waiting list, ask to be killed because they can’t get quality medical care,” Smith says.
We dive into his work on bioethics and euthanasia, better known today as “medically-assisted suicide.”
“Assisted suicide and euthanasia is a symptom, not a cause, and there’s a deep nihilism that seems to have infected society on many levels,” Smith says.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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0:00.0 | In Canada, in 23, more than 15,000 people were euthanized. |
0:05.0 | It's become one of the top causes of death in that country. |
0:09.0 | Once you say that killing is an acceptable and indeed a splendid answer to human suffering, |
0:14.0 | how do you limit the quote suffering that would qualify for killing? |
0:20.0 | Actually, you can't. It's a continual process of expansion. |
0:24.6 | Wesley Smith is a lawyer, author, and chair of the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism. |
0:30.6 | He has been following the rise of euthanasia, also known as medically assisted suicide, and medical assistance in dying, |
0:39.2 | made for over three decades. |
0:42.2 | You've seen articles in the Canadian press saying, |
0:43.8 | look at the many millions of dollars. |
0:47.3 | We've saved for the health care system because of euthanasia. |
0:50.5 | Another example of objectifying people who want to be dead. This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick. |
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