Swiss Euthanasia Group Under Fire After Painful Assisted Suicide Death

Life News ^ | 1/9/07 | Steven Ertelt

[Lucretia Borgia]

"Nein, nein, nein, zat ist not ze korrect way to kill a helpless voman. Back in za Vaterland, ve kill them zis way."

[wagglebee]

There is something horribly ironic about a bunch of Germans complaining about the way this woman was killed.

I would agree if the Germans were complaining about how Poles or Czechs killed people, but the Swiss were at best "useful idiots" for the Nazis.

[esquirette]

And they are going to set up a chain of these death clinics. I predict that from the 'right to die' will stem the 'duty to die,' and soon thereafter the kiddies will be dragging grandma into such 'clinics.'

[wagglebee]

That's certainly their goal.

[donna]

[Doomonyou]

The Dignitas group gave her a lethal cocktail last November that eventually took her life.

sans Morphine. (Doh!)

[knews_hound]

I thought this guy sounded familiar.  I blogged about him last year when he proposed his chain of "clinics".  

What a sick, sick puppy.

Yet the Left looks to these Euros as our "betters".

Horrifying.

Cheers,

knewshound

http://knewshound.blogspot.com

[taxcontrol]

It is amazing to me how little research people who want to commit suicide will actually do.

[metmom]

But they're opposed to the death penalty for those who have committed violent, atrocious crimes because it's *inhumane*.

*bang head on desk*

[MistrX]

An OD of heroin would work as well and be painless.

I've always thought that would be a good way to execute those on death row. With the lefties catering to junkies, maybe they'd quit b!tching about "cruel and inhumane death".

[Right Wing Assault]

The Dignitas group gave her a lethal cocktail last November that eventually took her life.

What the heck was it, drain cleaner? What morons. How about just a bunch of sleeping pills? I guess it's more fun to watch them scream and writhe in pain.

[kalee]

"I have always been a person who helps people," he added, rejecting criticism from pro-life groups and others that his group encourages people to use assisted suicide.


So that's what he thinks he's doing, helping people. Deluded or evil I'm not sure which, but helping? Absolutely NOT.

[OldPossum]

Most people who successfully kill themselves use a high caliber gun...

Even then one has to do it right. One of my relatives who is in the medical field told me not long ago about a ward at her hospital which has among its patients some young people (teenagers) who botched their suicide by gun. Among them is a young man who pointed a shotgun under his chin and succeeded in blowing off his face and blinding himself. Now, he's in that ward, awaiting perhaps decades before he dies. The very thought of having no face and being blind depresses the heck out of me. I suppose that he eventually will go home once his family is taught how to care for him, but still...

So, if you're going to do it, point the gun in the right direction. Under the chin doesn't cut it. I happen to know how it's done but I'm not gonna say.

[Grizzled Bear]

Yes. And that is the most tragic part.

[ApplegateRanch]

bizarre that they refer to her as a "patient".

[ApplegateRanch]

People who try to die by an overdose of pills live more often than not.

And often end up with a free new liver.

[ApplegateRanch]

Even then one has to do it right.

We had one come into the ICU I used to work in, who had shot himself THREE TIMES with a 30-06. He did not make it, but after "missing" twice due to flinching, he still managed to reposition the weapon and pull the trigger a third time. He lasted most of a day, and then became a donor.

We also had a woman for three weeks before the family let her go moved her to a skilled facility that would take her. She had shot herself in the head with a .38; no exit wound. The slug bounced off the opposite side of her skull, and went through another portion of her brain. She was breathing on her own, not ventilated, so no life support to remove.

Other horror stories over the years involving guns done wrong. No, thank you.

[secretagent]

Stony then gets sent to the short story "Welcome to the Monkey House," where the world is incredibly overpopulated, and there are ethical suicide parlors everywhere. Everyone is also forced to take pills that prevent them from feeling anything below the waist. Stony speaks with Lionel J. Howard, a man who is about to use the suicide parlor. The last thing he says is a question, "What are people for?"

Vonnegut had a vision.

[T'wit]

>> assurances from euthanasia advocates that the process is painless and peaceful.

What, did they hire George Felos as a front man?

[T'wit]

I know how to overcome these problems. Construct a circular room. The patient is to stand right in the middle. Twelve shotguns are positioned, every 30 degrees, aimed at every inch of the patient, loaded with, oh, #4 shot, and rigged to be fired simultaneously with an electronic trigger held by the patient.

Man, you could charge admission.

No lingering pain. No comatose survivors. You would need a garden hose and a mop in there afterward.