The Creeping Culture of Euthanasia

Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Wesley J. Smith

I was asked by the National Review to write a story for the magazine on the recent advances made by the assisted suicide movement. It is the cover story. There is no link, but here are few excerpts:

The assisted-suicide movement has come a long way in just a couple of decades. Consider, for example, this recent item from the San Francisco Chronicle: “Charlotte Shultz [the wife of former secretary of state George Shultz] accepted the invitation to be honorary co- chair (with Dianne Feinstein) at a Nov. 5 luncheon and program for Compassion & Choices of Northern California, saying, ‘I’m glad to support the cause, but I’m in no hurry to use the services.’” the rest