Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch’s 2006 book, The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, is an illuminating, tedious, and telling work. Illuminating because the rigorous mental work of a highly regarded jurist is something to behold; and tedious due both to that rigor and what Gorsuch chose not to reflect upon—the absence of which makes […]
The Medical White Wall of Silence Wraps Around the Clerical Collar
Today at a local Compassion & Choices chapter meeting we, refreshingly, heard from a Catholic Father who’s worked as a medical chaplain for many years, including at my local county hospital system. He supports Oregon-style physician aided death, as he prefers to call it—the kind of system intended to offer an option for the brutally […]