The Last Word: Perspectives on Suffering

August 23, 2007

For Wesley Smith, author of Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder, the circumstances surrounding the death of Jana Van Voorhis provide a chilling example of a movement running amuck.

“This is the secret that a lot of media has not reported much on,” says Smith, an attorney whose opinions on assisted suicide, bioethics and myriad other topics have appeared in some of the world’s most influential publications.

“Assisted suicide is not about terminal illness. That’s a pretext, in terms of the political fight to get people to accept the concept.” (Phoenix New Times)