Posted on 04/19/2009 10:00:27 AM PDT by wagglebee
When someone with a terminal illness decides to end their life by overdosing on barbiturates, they hope the drugs will lull them into a peaceful and permanent sleep. But if the drugs have passed their expiration date or lack a sufficiently lethal concentration, the would-be suicide victim may actually survive - risking an array of complications including coma, reduced physical functioning and the opprobrium of disapproving friends and family. Now, in an effort to provide certainty to those contemplating suicide, one of the world's leading euthanasia advocates plans to sell barbiturate testing kits to confirm that deadly drug cocktails are, in fact, deadly.
"People who are seriously ill don't want to experiment," says Dr. Philip Nitschke, the physician known as 'Dr. Death' for his efforts to legalize euthanasia in his native Australia. "They want to know they have the right concentration of drugs so that if they take them in the suggested way it will provide them with a peaceful death."
The kits, which will debut in Britain in May and retail for $50, include a syringe that allows users to extract half a milliliter of barbiturate solution without breaking the sanitary seal. "Clearly sterility doesn't matter given that death is the desired outcome," Nitschke says. But the solution deteriorates slower in a sterile environment, allowing those with painful conditions to "lock it away in the back of the cupboard in case things gets too bad." The extracted sample is then mixed with chemicals from the kit; a color change indicates a lethal solution.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
You are clearly unhinged and unable to even respond to what I have written. Capital punishment has NEVER been an individual right, YOU want to make it one.
Talk about a culture of death you are supporting:
Exodus 31:14
14”’Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from his people.
Yes, the STATE has the authority to determine which crimes are capital and which are not.
Do what you want. Just don't put laws into place controlling me. Give me liberty or give me death. Don't use the government to keep me alive longer than I want. Who's the libertarian here?
Exodus 31:14
14”’Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from his people.
You:Yes, the STATE has the authority to determine which crimes are capital and which are not.
Wow! You are really over the edge.
Didn't Hitler expouse something like that?
I am out of here for now. I find it disgusting to actually engage someone that agrees that society should kill someone that desecrates the sabbath.
You are clearly unhinged.
If the government cannot determine which crimes are capital who can?
YOU are a damn LIAR!
Very Good!
I am not telling you how to lead your life, nor telling your father how to live his, but I implore you not to damage others by causing them to act against their own guiding principles. Your own father's actions were his own, and yours are yours. If your father had caused his own death, so be it. Many mechanisms are available for this task.
If he was in a “Caregiving Environment” he could have gone home. or his Power of Attorney could have taken him home, from whence he for have found his own path.
Give it a rest, troll.
Thank you!
Thanks Jim!
Too bad that he does not understand that euthanasia kits would not just be used on those terminally ill.
They would eventually (actually already happening in Europe) on those who are despondent.
Your guess is as good as mine.
I doubt Wagglebee knows any more about it than the rest of us do. Sometimes people make the wrong decision regarding the people they love, and they come unhinged trying to compensate for it. Not saying that’s necessarily what happened here, but if it looks like a duck...
The “culture of death” is alive and well even here on Free Republic. How ironic.
Thanks, Jim.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.