Commentary
Since Christmas is a holiday celebrating birth, I thought I would say a few words about the opposite current in our culture: that celebration of death known to the world under the antiseptic name of “euthanasia.”
Wesley J. Smith has frequently dilated in these pages on the normalization of this most abnormal practice, most recently in a column called “Euthanasia Without Brakes.”
Smith recalled that he had predicted in his very first column on the subject way back in 1993 that what was then called “assisted suicide” would promptly lead to a burgeoning business in organ harvesting.
He was widely dismissed as alarmist….