Posted on 01/02/2017 3:25:46 PM PST by NYer
This 81-year-old woman got a 'Don’t Euthanize Me' tattoo
Catholic ping!
It’s an individual decision, not a collective one.
Bkmrk.
I believe our Lord, Jesus Christ when he said, “Thou shalt not kill.”
Thus, everyone falls under this parameter. (Even your aging mother in law.)
For better or worse, the Amazon series addresses this as one of its plot points in season 2.
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Stuffing untermenschen into gas chambers was once the law, too ...
“From Catholic News Agency
This 81-year-old woman got a ‘Don’t Euthanize Me’ tattoo”
That’s nothing, I had D.N.R. tattooed on my forehead...
:^)
>“Thou shalt not kill.”
Too vague. If someone is trying to kill me or mine, those tying to kill me or mine may be killed. Not even a second thought while doing what must be done.
It’s actually more accurate to say “thou shall not murder”.
Killing in self defense, war or punishment by law is certainly permitted throughout Scripture.
The “right to die” quickly morphs into a “duty to die” especially when the target is seen as of no economic value. (An exception is made for unskilled Muslim migrants).
We have just brought our loved one back from the rest home. His diaper rash is unbelievable and we doubt he was changed once a day.....if that. He’s in sooooo much pain and discomfort. Pitiful to see. They couldn’t be bothered.
Nothing gets me more riled than elder, child, and animal abuse/neglect.
A few years ago, “little me” used my “business only” social media account to fight an “assisted suicide” law in my state—along with a Greek Orthodox heirarch, a Roman Catholic Archbishop, and the state medical society. On the other side were the “usual suspects”, including several of obama’s hangers-on, and the former editors of the New England Journal of Medicine, who never met a pro-death provision they did not like.
Despite the polls being against us for most of the year, we won!!!! It’s good when one can to show a little bit of guts, and to have a little bit of faith and prayer and a little bit of love!!!!
>It’s actually more accurate to say “thou shall not murder”.
>Killing in self defense, war or punishment by law is certainly permitted throughout Scripture.
I agree. I remember questioning “thou shall not...” back in Sunday School. I tried the “turn the other cheek” and was okay with it except in the cases of the bully hitting harder the second time. I learned to block, learned to cock and learned to knock.
That’s where we are now.
“It’s an individual decision, not a collective one.”
“No man is an island.” (John Donne) Peoples’ individual decisions eventually change cultural attitudes, as evidenced by the father in Belgium who has to justify his disabled daughter’s existence, now that a decade of euthanasia has hardened the hearts of many in that country towards the old and disabled.
Truthfully, there is only one way to end the euthanasia contagion. And to use it, you first must answer a question of faith.
Is it just for society to kill serial killers?
If the answer is yes, then the path is clear, to kill as many of the killers as necessary to make the others contemplating killing stop. Deterrence.
Even the prospect of doing so is such that the most prolific of the killers prefers to hide in the shadows, their names unknown to the public.
But once they are known, their demise must be both ungainly and even grotesque, made graphic enough to dispel any illusion of “peace” or “painlessness”.
And as the saying goes, “Science does not dispel the fear of the gods.” So making it appear they are part of an evil ritual will make things far more noteworthy.
It is harsh medicine, but the only real cure for the disease.
No one ever talks about the consequence that no one wants... the death of medical progress. When patients and their conditions get too difficult to treat, they are euthanized. No need to cure cancer, or heart disease or aids or diabetes. When those diseases progress too far, just kill the “carrier”. Brave new world indeed!
A substantial minority of the population enjoys suffering and death. This is easily seen in the ease with which totalitarian regimes can get volunteers to commit such acts against innocent people. Such evilly intended people gravitate to healthcare where they can commit such crimes and escape detection. They also gravitate to law and education and govt jobs. Such professions can get away with harmful acts while claiming they are legal. This is the motivation of euthanasists. They simply enjoy killing and use “mercy killing” as a justification to indulge their sick murderous desires.
Killing people, not even themselves desiring to die, goes on in many US cities, brought to us by your friendly neighborhood hospice. They have it down to a vicious, methodical science. And they Will even do it with a smile, albeit a syrupy, evil, creepy, clown smile, but nonetheless a smile.
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