Posted on 02/23/2021 12:28:41 PM PST by Shady
“As one moves from the stands to the arena, the perspective on the bull changes,” so goes a Spanish proverb.
I have practiced medicine for more than 50 years. Helping to ease suffering has been my life’s work. I co-founded Hospice Buffalo more than 40 years ago to help patients who were dying, to ensure that their final days, weeks and months could be as comfortable, pain-free and fulfilling as possible.
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So if you survived Covid in NY under Cuomo, now we have a treatment for that...
MURDER !!!
Pain management is very effective.
This is about easing "burdens" for weak family members and Social Security, and Medicare.
Don't feed me that "quality of life" nonsense!
There was already a lot of “medical aid in dying” in New York State.
It was the program of putting seriously ill or even only slightly recovering patients that had been in hospitals into nursing homes completely unequipped to provide the specialized care needed for COVID-19 Wuhan virus patients, and exposing the general population of the nursing home to them.
Thereby multiplying the effects by two or three times, or even more, in this form of “euthanasia”.
Playing GOD!
Slippery slopes are slippery.
I have reached the point that I no longer consider the “Slippery Slope” argument a logical fallacy.
Soylent Green - It’s people God D*&%^ it.
Logan’s Run for the elderly (for now)
Killing patients, or helping them to do the dirty work,
is good business... /s
And Medicaid.
Thou shalt not give medical aid in dying. Exodus 20:13
AH, iIt was only a matter of time before The death panels come back in vogue.
I thought they weren’t quite ready to make euthanasia an official policy yet...but under “good Catholic” Biden, I think these states are just going to go ahead and do it.
After all, it’s for the good of the patient. He really wouldn’t want to live, right?
I’m not in favor of insane and cruel treatments for patients, especially elderly ones, who just want to be left alone and be able to hold hands with their family or know that they’ll have their priest anoint them as they die.
I worked in a church owned residence near Cleveland for elderly men, mostly immigrants from the Ukraine. One man was in very poor health and had serious heart problems. He was in his late 80s and had survived all sorts of things in his life, both in the Ukraine and the US. But what he really wanted to do is find out if the daughter who was born after he emigrated in the late 1920s was alive. When he was still working, he had always sent money to some address in the Ukraine to support them but he never even knew if they received it. He was going to bring his wife and daughter to the US, but unfortunately that was made impossible by the Communists.
We wrote to the Red Cross and they got a lead, and then the Russian professor at the local college followed up on a lead to a Russian source...and a letter came from the elderly man’s daughter. His wife had died long ago, but the daughter was alive and well and she thanked him for sending them money and thanked him for getting in touch because she didn’t know if he was alive either or how to find him.
He was already non-ambulatory and spent most of the day just seated in his wheelchair when he lived with us. He had a heart crisis the day after the letter. We visited him in the hospital and he was barely conscious, just enough to smile and squeeze our hands and say thank you for his care and for finding his daughter. And then basically he turned his face to the wall and stopped eating and drinking.
The doctor, an osteopath, told us that he could do a surgical intervention that might help but that in his experience when someone that age had achieved some goal and was done, that was it. Our dear resident died quietly about two days later and had been visited by the priest while he was still conscious.
So I think there’s a decent and kind response to illness, age and natural death...but that euthanasia certainly isn’t it.
I watched several very old, pain wracked relatives die and it just ain’t pretty.
Two were also in late stage dementia and could not voice their wishes.
The 3rd had a Lou Gherig’s like wasting disease. Her mind was very aware but she could no longer communicate. You could see her hurt and desperation. I will never forget those eyes when I leaned over to kiss her goodbye and beg her to let go.
The last thing on any of our minds was will this save medicare a buck.
So I understand where this compassion is coming from. I think I would want the option to CHOOSE it.
Unfortunately, once it starts it quickly morphs into who is worthy and who should go, decided by others. If we could make this strictly a patient’s choice ONLY and free the physician from harm, it might be worth considering.
We haven’t had an elderly loved die painlessly in over 50 years.
But there’s a big difference between pain management and murder.
My MIL was in severe pain while she was in hospice. Turns out the attending nurse was shorting her pain meds because it was morphine. She said it was because of addiction. We went to the head of the hospice and had her pain meds restored in full.
There is no reason dying people have to be in pain.
I think ecstasy should be legal for folks on those homes.
I certainly see your point and you follow up with my concerns, that this, eventually, will be taken away from the patient and be placed in the realm of “medical experts” who will make the life or death determination.
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