Showing posts with label Assisted Suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Assisted Suicide. Show all posts

September 8, 2015

Washington DC Directs Assisted Suicide of the United States




Communist Party took over the Democratic Party. Unable to defeat the U.S. economically and militarily, they infiltrated and continue to do so. Notice any weak Republicans? Surprise! Voters elected Communists. Journalists are their useful idiots. US taxpayers and voters need to learn propaganda to survive.

[From article]
President Obama’s legacy to America: a Middle East in chaos, radical Islam ascendant, a nuclear Iran with a $150 billion dollar terror fund, Israel demonized as a warmonger, Europe flooded with Muslims. This Iran Deal is so bad, so dangerous, so traitorous, it is hard to believe. That is one reason the Democrats can get away with it. Their loyal voters assume their party leaders and beloved first black President would not do something this traitorous.
[. . .]
Have no doubt this “deal” is a national security disaster. In an unprecedented move, motived by alarm and a sense of their responsibility, 245 (and the number is growing daily) retired generals and admirals, including the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Clinton and the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the Gulf War, have written a stiff letter that was hand delivered to every member of Congress.
Their message to Congress: kill the Iran Deal.
[. . .]



Democrats in Congress are willing to betray their country rather than stand up to a rogue President. What is more important to the liberal politicians? The favors and threats that we know have been emanating from the White House, or decades of bi-partisan support for our national security? Easy answer for these career politicians: first their careers, then their perks, then their Democratic Party. American national interest is no longer on the list.
[. . .]
Our President has a lifelong affection and affinity for Islam, the religion of his father and his step-father, and of the country where he was raised as a child.
Obama also has his own version of American history, in which we are not a Judeo-Christian nation, not exceptional, have many reasons for remorse and few for pride. These are the values that led him to his dream of a Middle East where Iran, not America and not Israel, is the dominant military power.
[. . .]



Because of his Moslem father and stepfather and where he grew up, Obama has an emotional affinity for Islam that few Americans share. The sound of the Islamic call to prayers is the “one of the prettiest sounds on earth” our President told the New York Times. He then recited the Moslem call to prayer in a “first-rate accent.”
Nicolas Kristof, the Time’s reporter, was too lazy to look up the Muslim call to prayer, or its significance. Recite it aloud in front of a witness three times, and you are a Muslim for life. Leaving the religion is punishable by death.
[. . .]
In his twisted moral universe, the mullahs are on the side of the right and America and Israel are the bad guys.
That’s our President. What is Congress’s excuse? What is the excuse of all those Democrat voters who like to swallow easy lies, even at the cost of betraying our country?

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/why_are_democrats_willing_to_strengthen_iran_and_hurt_israel.html

September 6, 2015
Why are Democrats Willing to Strengthen Iran and Hurt Israel?
By Karin McQuillan

July 14, 2015

Disability Rights Advocates Oppose Assisted Suicide Laws



Disability Rights Advocate, Diane Coleman, Founder, Not Dead Yet

[From article]
Doctors told her she would have six months to a year before it grew back, requiring more risky followups.
But 13 years later, Phillips is 38 years old and thriving, despite two very severe medical conditions. She also suffers from lupus. The state of her health has made her somewhat philosophical about her own mortality.
“There’s a certain freedom that comes with dying,” said Phillips, who lives near New Orleans. “You really don’t have to deal with your annoying cousin. You really don’t have to go on that family trip. You can eat ice cream for breakfast.”
Her prognosis was not unlike Brittany Maynard’s. But Maynard chose physician-assisted suicide after doctors diagnosed her with terminal brain cancer on Jan. 1, 2014. Before she died less than a year later – on Nov. 1, 2014 – at age 29, Maynard had become a prominent advocate for the “death with dignity” movement, which has triggered legislation in 25 states.
[. . .]
But as citizens from California to Kentucky push for dying rights, advocacy groups for people with disabilities question whether physician-assisted suicide should be legal.
“The risk of mistake and coercion and abuse are really too great,” said Diane Coleman, founder and CEO of Not Dead Yet, an advocacy group that informs and lobbies on behalf of the disabled.
[. . .]
Phillips said the laws discourage people from finding comfort in their condition. Thoughstudies of some patients show that physicians generally offer more optimistic predictions about how long a terminal patient will live, she’s still alive long past expectations.
“I’m able to surround myself with people like me,” said Phillips, who worries that many terminal patients do not know about support groups and advanced palliative care. “These aren’t things that people are told exist. Doctors often don’t know. They value my life as it is.”
[. . .]



Coleman established Not Dead Yet in 1996 to counter the efforts of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, dubbed “Dr. Death” for his active support of a terminally ill patient’s right to die.
Not Dead Yet partners with groups like the Disability Rights, Education and Defense Fundand the Massachusetts activist group Second Thoughts to create a nationwide network that opposes the death with dignity movement and the laws it champions as discriminatory and dangerous.
The laws generally stipulate that only a capable adult with a terminal illness, meaning one that will lead to death within six months of diagnosis, may receive a life-ending prescription. The patient must make both a written and oral request in the presence of two witnesses. Another oral request must follow at least 15 days later.
But where the safeguards stop, the danger begins, according to the disability groups. None of the laws or rulings include provisions about when, where or how patients should ingest the life-ending medicine once prescribed.
[. . .]
Most advocacy groups cite unendurable pain as the main motivation for pursuing legislation.
To Not Dead Yet and the Disability Rights, Education and Defense Fund, this amounts to fear of disability rather than fear of painful death or lessened quality of life.
The laws have a provision that bars physicians from prescribing a life-ending prescription to a person with disabilities simply because they are disabled. But opponents stipulate that the danger does not come from those with disabilities who might feel pressure to end their lives, but those without disabilities who fear becoming disabled or having a poorer quality of life.
Marilyn Golden, a senior policy analyst at the Disability Rights, Education and Defense Fund, who uses a wheelchair as a result of injury, spoke from personal experience about the doubts about her quality of life that she initially encountered.
“At the beginning, I felt that the injury was unbearable,” she said. “A year later, it hit me: There was no change in my quality of life.”

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JULY 13, 2015
As assisted suicide laws spread, cancer survivors, disabled object
BY DANIELLE OHL
McClatchy Washington Bureau

April 6, 2015

Fake Anti Homosexual Bias, Diverts Attention From Terrororist Dangers, Illegal Alien Swarms, Suicidal Economic Policies




[From article]
We saw a lot of intolerance last week, and it wasn't from the guy who didn't want to bake the cake.
[. . .]
My guess is that most Americans don't want government telling them whom to bake a cake for, whether it's a "Johnny loves Jimmy cake" or a cake mocking a religious figure like Jesus or Mohammed. No one should be required by government to bake a cake that insults his religious beliefs!
Furthermore, I think that a lot of Americans are fed up with being called "bigots" or "homophobes" because they disagree with same-sex marriage!
[. . .]
My message to the GOP: Support Indiana and religious freedom laws. The public is on your side.
My message to CEOs: a lot of your customers, a lot more than you realize, believe that you are first-rate cowards for not standing up to bullies.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/04/look_for_big_backlash_against_gay_intolerance.html

April 6, 2015
Look for big backlash against 'gay intolerance'
By Silvio Canto, Jr.

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[From article]
I think it’s time to consider whether, in an effort to undo state mandated discrimination against blacks, we have gone too far afield and should scale back the push to regulate discrimination against a variety of protected groups in the private sphere.
[. . .]
And frankly, it seems to have been at least one underlying theme of the attacks on Memories Pizza (and Chik-Fil-A some time ago.) In both instances no gays were denied service and gay rights were in my opinion a red herring, covering anti-property rights and moral sneering at white Christians under a veneer of protecting gay rights.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/04/moral_bullies_and_the_laws_that_enable_them.html

April 5, 2015
Moral Bullies and the Laws That Enable Them
By Clarice Feldman

January 2, 2015

Netherlands Assisted Suicide Policy Increases Deaths



Andre Verhoeven, pictured at his first Communion, chose to end his life in January last year.

[From article]
Everyone in the Netherlands, where a right-to-die law was passed in 2002, seems to know of someone who has lost a loved one through a mercy killing.
As many as one in 33 people now use euthanasia to end their lives, and the number of cases rose from 1,923 in 2006 to nearly 5,000 in 2013. It is thought that in 2014 around 6,000 people could have chosen to die by this means.
You might be entitled to think that what people do in Holland is their business and nothing to do with us in Britain. But you could not be more wrong.
If campaigners have their way, the law will be changed here, too, to allow those who wish to end their life to do so at a time of their choosing. For opponents of euthanasia, this raises grave moral questions, as well as concerns that unscrupulous relatives might take advantage of elderly family members — whose estates they might covet — by encouraging them to end their lives.
[. . . ]
Though David Cameron has previously said he would oppose the legalising of assisted dying, if the issue is debated in Parliament, MPs will be given a free vote. But if it ever comes to that, they would do well to heed the warning of the senior Dutch ethicist who supported euthanasia and oversaw the law when it was introduced in Holland, but who has now advised the UK not to blindly follow suit.
Professor Theo Boer says that it would lead to widespread killing of the sick. ‘Don’t do it, Britain,’ he urged last year. ‘Once the genie is out of the bottle, it is not likely ever to go back in again.’
[. . .]
The Dutch ignored warnings that killings would become commonplace, yet now Dr Boer insists assisted suicide has ‘turned a last resort into a normal procedure’.
The legalisation of euthanasia has led to ‘Life End clinics’ being set up where Dutch people, if faced with a reluctant local doctor, are helped to commit suicide. Indeed, mobile teams of euthanasia doctors operate across the country who will kill people if their own GP refuses on ethical grounds.
[. . .]
In 2010, a citizens’ initiative called Out Of Free Will demanded that all Dutch people over 70 who feel tired of life should have the right to professional medical help in ending it all. Many thousands of people supported this idea.
But the euthanasia business does not just concern the elderly. It is now acceptable for a doctor to end the life of a baby, with the parents’ consent, if it is in pain or facing a life of hopeless suffering.
[. . .]
Even physically healthy people suffering from depression have been killed by doctors under Holland’s right-to-die laws.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2893778/As-debate-assisted-suicide-dispatch-Holland-thousands-choose-die-year.html

The country where death is now just a lifestyle choice: A mum with ringing ears. Babies whose parents don't want them to suffer. They've all been allowed to die by assisted suicide in Holland
Andre Verhoeven planned to retire at 65 to travel the world with wife Dora
He was diagnosed with acute leukaemia and was told there was no cure
He chose to end his life at 64 and died in January last year
Gaby Olthuis suffered ‘24-hour noise’ in her head, ‘like a train screeching'
To end her suffering, she was given a lethal potion to drink at her home
She left behind two teenage children, a boy of 13 and a girl aged 15
By SUE REID FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 17:27 EST, 1 January 2015 | UPDATED: 05:16 EST, 2 January 2015

December 13, 2014

French Parliament Introduces Bill To Permit Deep Sleep For Terminally Ill




A parliamentary debate on the issue would be held in January  
Photo: Alamy


[From article]
Doctors in France will have the right to put terminally-ill patients into a deep sleep until they die, under plans unveiled on Friday that reignited a national debate on euthanasia.
Apart from Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, few countries in the world explicitly permit euthanasia or assisted suicide.
In France, a 2005 law permits "passive euthanasia", where a person causes death by withholding or withdrawing treatment that is necessary to maintain life.
The proposals by two MPs – one from the ruling Socialists, the other from the opposition UMP – go a step further, as they allow doctors to couple passive euthanasia with "deep and continuous sedation" for terminally-ill patients who are conscious and whose treatment is not working or for those who decide to stop taking medication.
Patients who are not able to make decisions could in certain circumstances also be placed into deep, permanent sleep.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11290282/French-parliament-prepares-new-end-of-life-legislation.html

French parliament prepares new end-of-life legislation
French parliament to debate a draft law that will give doctors in France the right to put terminally-ill patients into a deep sleep until they die
By Henry Samuel, Paris
3:01PM GMT 12 Dec 2014

October 5, 2014

Increasing Assisted Suicide of Disabled Persons in the Netherlands



[From article]
The number of mentally ill people who have been killed through euthanasia in the Netherlands has trebled in a single year, according to new figures.
The Daily Mail reports that in 2012, 14 people with "severe psychiatric problems" were killed by lethal injection, a figure that rose to 42 in 2013.
There had also been a 15 percent overall rise in assisted dying over the past year, with the number of cases increasing from 4,188 to 4,829.
Deaths from euthanasia have risen by a total of 151 percent in a period of just seven years, with most cases involving cancer sufferers. However, there were also 97 people who were killed by their doctors because they had dementia.
The figures do not include "terminal sedation", where the patient is sedated and then has food and fluids withdrawn. If they did, however, euthanasia would account for one in eight of all deaths in the Netherlands.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/10/03/Assisted-Suicide-Out-of-Control-in-Netherlands

ASSISTED SUICIDE 'OUT OF CONTROL' IN NETHERLANDS
by NICK HALLETT
3 Oct 2014

September 23, 2012

Assisted Suicide For MA?

Marcia Angell says, "listing safeguards. One requires two doctors to certify that a patient will die within six months." If you don't trust one doctor why should you trust two? 

http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20220923deserving_of_dignity/

Deserving of dignity
Right-to-die battle hits home for Cambridge doc
Boston Herald
By Margery Eagan
Sunday, September 23, 2012

October 16, 2011

Hospital Staff Signs Do Not Resuscitate Orders

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/8829350/Elderly-patients-condemned-to-early-death-by-secret-use-of-do-not-resuscitate-orders.html

Elderly patients condemned to early death by secret use of do not resuscitate orders
Elderly patients are being condemned to an early death by hospitals making secret use of "do not resuscitate" orders, an investigation has found.
By Laura Donnelly, and Alastair Jamieson
Telegraph (UK)
7:04PM BST 15 Oct 2011

June 28, 2010

Cruel Accurate Evaluation of Obama

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/24469

Obama's Character Described 2,500 Years Ago by Aesop
A Dog in the Manger Presidency
By Kelly O'Connel
Sunday, June 20, 2010

February 23, 2010

MA Death Panels On The Way?

The idea of death panels is not mentioned in these stories. But someone must approve stopping treatment. One doctor? Two? When does more than one become a panel? What are they approving? Is it cake recipes? Oh, it is death. There will be death panels if this law passes. But Ethicist Eagan will not call it that or even acknowledge that they exist.

http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1234799

Memory of suffering helps right-to-die bill live on

By Margery Eagan
Boston Herald
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

February 22, 2010

State Death Panels?

Would this require any discussion with a group that may be called a death panel? Or would one MD be sufficient? Then if you don't trust one doctor why trust two?

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1234503

State mulls right-to-die bill

By Laurel J. Sweet
Boston Herald
Monday, February 22, 2010

February 16, 2010

Death Panels in Montreal

"'Doctors are ready to debate euthanasia,' Barrette said. And like abortion, he said, limits must be established. Not every patient will want euthanasia and not all doctors will agree to perform the procedure.

Barrette explained that a patient who is lucid consults with a doctor, friends and family members before requesting euthanasia.

For patients who are not lucid, a biological will can guide relatives who must decide."

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Doctors+back+right/2568891/story.html

Doctors back 'right to die'
Consultation; But MDs oppose assisted suicide
By KEVIN DOUGHERTY,
The (Montreal) Gazette
February 16, 2010 2:59 PM

January 19, 2010

2008 Election

2008 Election


Born 1776, Died 2008

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning last November's Presidential election:

* Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29

* Square miles of land won by:
Obama: 580,000
McCain: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:
Obama: 127 million
McCain: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Obama: 13.2
McCain: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.

Apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

January 12, 2010

That's The way It Is


"On Christmas day, a terrorist known to our intelligence system tried to blow up 300 innocents on a US-bound flight. Our government's response is to take porno pictures of your wife and daughter.

A radical-Islamist US Army major, known to our intelligence system, massacred his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood. Our government's response was to offer counseling sessions.

A triple agent, known to our intelligence system, detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA outpost, killing seven Americans and a cousin of Jordan's king. Our government's response is to shift intelligence assets away from targeting terrorists to support development efforts.

Our president assures us that no individual is to blame. No one will be fired. It was only "the system," that elusive beast, that failed."
[. . .]
"He's protecting incompetents. At our nation's expense."
[. . .]
"Punishing law-abiding US citizens at airports is a disgrace, not a virtue. The only effective way to reduce the terrorist threat is to kill terrorists."
[. . .]
"We're not being defeated. We're defeating ourselves."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/fixes_will_fail_hvOrRHKzCpnAHZOjjlX2qO

O's 'fixes' will fail
Feeding more fat to obese US intelligence
Ralph Peters
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:43 PM, January 9, 2010
Posted: 12:14 AM, January 9, 2010

October 19, 2009

Death Panels in Action


Though proponents of ObamaCare deny it this is how death panels would work.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/ghoul_nurse_urged_suicide_in_web_BrOAbdaVoLlDTg6xmthkxH

Ghoul nurse urged suicide in Web chats: cops
AP
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:02 AM, October 17, 2009
Posted: 2:33 AM, October 17, 2009