Posted on 12/13/2014 1:13:37 PM PST by BBell
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Obama is preparing end of 15 minutes legislation
It sounds like murder to me but so does abortion.
So the French are going to kill off their old people too.
How inspiring our masters are. I’m just filled with hope and warm feelings that our masters have taken up difficult and touchy subject of how they’re going to end people’s lives.
As opposed to leaving the old geezer’s in a hot apt. during August vacation time~
Of course. Socialists don’t like “useless” old people.
LOL they would prefer to take care of ‘useless’ young people...via welfare.
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