Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Thanks for stopping by to hear another episode of the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today I want to talk about the secret history of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

This is a subject I've been interested in ever since.

Really 2014 is when I started to get interested in researching it.

I had read about it for quite a while during my days of pro-life advocacy,

because I would cover the issue of abortion.

But I also would occasionally be asked about euthanasia and assisted suicide.

So since I was doing pro-life work, I wanted to be well versed in those areas as well.

So I would read up on them, come across different books a long way.

Probably one of my favorite authors on the subject was Wesley Smith.

Still is.

He used to have a column at National Review.

I don't know if he has that anymore.

But he wrote a great book on the subject called Forced Exit.

And I've really enjoyed a lot of his commentary over the years on the subject.

And so I broached it then and that helped me in 2014 when the case of Brittany Maynard made the news.

You probably remember this.

This was the woman who had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, a malignant tumor.

She was not expected to live longer than six months.

And so she went to Oregon because Oregon had physician-assisted suicide

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