Network News
- Applauding Suicide for the Mentally Ill
- 10/27/2011
- (Secondhand Smoke) - I have a rather long piece on NRO about the worsening and widening euthanasia license in the Netherlands, Belgium (especially!), and Switzerland-and what accepting euthanasia consciousness does to a nation's moral fiber.
- Raye of Light: A Country Star Gives Voice to the Voiceless
- 10/26/2011
- (By Kathryn Lopez, NRO) - 'It's a barbaric way to die," multi-platinum country-music singer Collin Raye says to me, reflecting on the life of Terri Schiavo, the cognitively disabled woman in Florida who was starved to death in 2005.
- Collin Raye Showcases Sacred Songs on New Album
- 10/25/2011
- (National Catholic Register) - The sacred sneaks up on us everywhere. It happened to me, when a recent, seemingly routine, political stop bowled me over with a reminder of what an undeserved honor it is to be able to live as a Christian in the world today (And what a critical responsibility it is to actually do that: to pray to be who we say we are.)
- Righting a Wrong Turn: Teenager Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injury
- 10/24/2011
- (PennLive.Com) - A simple turn in the road. Every day, a young driver makes this turn. To and from school. On the way to karate class. To a friend's house. One evening, the turn in the road turns a life upside down. It points the way to a long, uncertain detour for 18-year-old Elijah Olson.
- 'Little Yueyue' Dies Amid Soul-Searching
- 10/23/2011
- (Wall Street Journal) - Doctors say Wang Yue, the toddler who made global headlines after she was hit by two cars and left unassisted as more than a dozen pedestrians passed her by, has died.
- Emergency Room Visits for Brain Injuries Soar
- 10/21/2011
- (Journal Sentinel) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that emergency room visits for sports and recreation-related brain injuries, including concussions, among young people have jumped 60% during the last decade.
- Man Nearly Starved to Death Like Terri Schiavo Now Responsive
- 10/21/2011
- (LIfeNews.com) - A 55-year-old Maryland man who became temporarily unconscious after suffering a heart attack and a seizure has been saved from being starved to death like Terri Schiavo after an Alliance Defense Fund-allied attorney obtained an order in state court on behalf of the man's mother and brother. The man, Daniel Sanger, is now responding to hospital staff after going six days without food and water.
- End-of-life Surgery May Not Reflect Seniors' Needs, Study Finds
- 10/20/2011
- (Salt Lake Tribune) - The odds of elderly Americans having surgery in their last year of life may have more to do with their age and where they live than whether they want or need the procedures, a study found.
- The "Duty to Die" Advances
- 10/19/2011
- (By Wesley J. Smith) - Is there such a thing as a "duty to die?" Some notable voices in bioethics say, yes. They believe that as a matter of distributive justice, when people reach a certain advanced age, severe disability, or very poor health, they owe it to society, their families-and even themselves-to allow life to (or make it) end.
- Starting Again After a Brain Injury
- 10/18/2011
- (NY Times) - "Want a piece of gum, Jane?" asked my friend Andrée. "What?" I asked her. "Gum!" I didn't know what she was talking about. "It's Trident." It was delicious. That evening, I told my friend David about my day's big discovery. "It's called gum and you chew it and it's fun and there's this one kind that will let me blow bubbles!" "Yes, it's called bubble gum, Jane," he told me, patiently.
