Posted on 01/29/2016 6:18:15 AM PST by wagglebee
This started a big family argument. It was us and the grand-kids (I was surprised) against the other siblings. His own children wanted to withhold treatment.
Turns out a few days on antibiotics and he was good to go back to assisted living. He lived another two years. He was in his 90’s.
Do you have some odd religious belief that animals have souls? Were dogs created in God's image?
Where EXACTLY do you think this "right to die" comes from? The right to life is unalienable, which means we can't give it away.
We don't have a natural claim on death, death has a claim on us.
God luck, my friend, we are about to be attacked mercilessly though by a bunch of nuttybars for our thoughts, though.
"Nuttybars"? Really? Those of us who adhere to six thousand years of Judeo-Christian teachings are "nuttybars"?
Are Christians like us who reject same-sex "marriage" "nuttybars" as well?
You’re 83 years old, and twitchy? You might want to be careful who knows.
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“I know several people who are annoyed that their aging parents are ‘spending my inheritance’ on medical care.”
That’s horrible.
One of the greatest “gifts” our parents gave us, was our parents managing THEIR money well enough to cover their costs thru their final years. This situation transpired pretty much concurrently with my parents and the wife’s parents. The children knew we were in it for the long haul, and whatever it cost...it cost. We (the kids) would’ve gone into our own pockets if the need had arisen, but luckily it didn’t.
Yes, there was some inheritance left over after all was said and done, but you know where those funds went? Into investments so we can pass on the same “gift” to our children.
Yeah, I’ll just ignore this. I don’t feel like sniffing trash today.
Lebens unwertes leben ...
That concept should always be expressed in the original German.
“Right to Die” very quickly becomes “Duty to Die.”
That has always been the default position for the ignorant.
I don’t feel like sniffing trash today.
Equating the pro-life movement to garbage, that's a new one.
Well said. It should not be state sanctioned.
My mom has a 94 year old aunt. Her medical issues are a pacemaker and bad vision.
A few years ago she needed the battery replaced in her pacemaker. The surgeon told her that when/if ObamaCare went through that she would NOT be eligible for a new battery for said pacemaker because of her age. She has 2ish years left of the battery life.
Other than the pacemaker and eyesight this lady is more together than alot of 50 year olds.
That is the really sad but expected consequence of having Utilitarian philosophy (look up Peter Singer) informing medical ethics. It came out of the universities and now rules medical decision making.
That is the bottom line. People can off themselves. But they can’t make others, especially healers, kill them.
bttt
We already have people who get medical degrees in order to kill people. They are called "abortionists." Some of them are very good at pretending they care, but in reality, they are psychopaths who are incapable of any empathy for another human being.
No one is telling you that you cannot refuse medical treatment. We just don’t want you getting a doctor to kill you. There are all kinds of reasons to not want killer MDs... a LOT of reasons.
No one who is helpless for whatever reason is safe when MDs can kill them rather than treat them. It does not matter what the medical condition is, or whether it is treatable—once a doctor is involved who has nothing against killing, that patient will not survive. As a patient, I do not want someone who is capable of murder to be my caregiver. I don’t care how murder is rationalized—a person who can rationalize it in one context can rationalize it in another.
Yes, good point.
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