Kresta in the Afternoon – December 23, 2015 – Hour 1
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+ #21 Death with Dignity is Eliminating the Suffering, not the Sufferer
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- Description: Advocates of euthanasia, or “Death with Dignity,” say their cause is all about reducing the suffering of a sick person and their family. They argue that by allowing patients to die “on their own terms,” euthanasia eliminates the suffering of all involved. Wesley Smith disagrees. A true dignified death can be realized by eliminating the suffering, not the sufferer. He’s here to discuss how to do this.
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Wes Smith
Wesley Smith is a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute and Program Chair of the Center on Human Exceptionalism as well as a consultant to Patient’s Rights Council. Welsey is the author of twelve books, most recently The War on Humans. His blog Human Exceptionalism can be found at National Review Online. - Resources:
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- Canada Euthanasia: Remediable = Irremediable (http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/398153/canada-euthanasia-remediable-irremediable-wesley-j-smith)
- Canada's Supreme Court Reverses Its Earlier Ruling on Assisted Suicide (http://aleteia.org/2015/02/06/canadas-supreme-court-reverses-its-earlier-ruling-on-assisted-suicide/)
- Murderer Latimer Supports Canadian Euthanasia (http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/398188/murderer-latimer-supports-canadian-euthanasia-wesley-j-smith)
- Canadian Docs OK Putting Patients Down (http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/398151/canadian-docs-ok-putting-patients-down-wesley-j-smith)
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- Wesley's Human Exceptionalism Blog (http://www.nationalreview.com/author/wesley-j-smith)
- Books by Wes Smith (http://www.amazon.com/Wesley-J.-Smith/e/B001H6NXHS)
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+ #20 The Science of Transgenderism
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- Description: Is the concept of gender rooted in our biology, or is it an entirely social construct? What does science say about transgenderism? How should Catholics minister to transgendered people? We’ll talk about it with Aaron Kheriaty.
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Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
Aaron Kheriaty is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Program in Medical Ethics at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. He serves as chairman of the clinical ethics committee at UCI Medical Center. Dr. Kheriaty graduated from the University of Notre Dame in philosophy and pre-medical sciences, and earned his MD degree from Georgetown University. He lives in San Juan Capistrano, California, with his wife and five sons. He is the author of The Catholic Guide to Depression and the editor of the classic True or False Possession: How to Distinguish the Demonic From the Demented by Jean Lhermitte. - Resources:
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The Catholic Guide to Depression
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The Catholic Guide to Depression
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