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Tag: elderly

Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020, 11:26 AM

Balancing Lives, Economics, and Public Policy in This Plague

Our political policy makers (the President, Congress and the Senate, governors, etc.) should make their calculus transparent.

Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2019, 5:33 AM

Washington Post Boosts Elderly “Rational Suicide”

The story ends with the phone number of a suicide prevention hotline. That’s just a sop after potentially putting lethal ideas into readers’ heads.

Wesley J. Smith
September 23, 2018, 2:36 PM

A “Healthspan” Duty to Die for the Elderly?

University of Illinois professor S. Jay Olshansky argues that it is time to shift medicine’s focus — starting at age 65 — away from “life extension.”

Wesley J. Smith
September 6, 2018, 7:54 PM

Promoting “Rational” Suicide by the Elderly

September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. I used to call the annual event “Invisible Suicide Prevention Day” because it is so often ignored in major media.

Wesley J. Smith
August 18, 2018, 4:57 AM

Stop Blaming Elderly and Terminally Ill for Our Health-Care Spending Problems

There is a widely believed myth that the elderly and dying take up a huge amount of the overall health-care budget.

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