Posted on 12/14/2014 8:38:52 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
New plans unveiled Friday could allow French doctors to put terminally ill patients into a deep sleep until they die.
The French parliament will debate the issue in a new draft law, according to The Telegraph.
So far only Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland explicitly permit euthanasia or assisted suicide.
A 2005 French law already allows “passive euthanasia,” where a person causes death by withholding or withdrawing treatment that is necessary to maintain life, but the new proposal takes the idea further.
The proposals by two MPs — one from the ruling Socialists, the other from the opposition UMP — allow doctors to combine passive euthanasia with “deep and continuous sedation” for terminally ill patients who are conscious and whose treatment is not working or for those who decide to stop taking medication, The Telegraph reported Friday.
But patients who are incapable of making the decision in certain circumstances could also be put under, The Telegraph said.
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PING!
When murdering babies just doesn’t do it for you anymore.
Ethnic French: negative birth rate for many years; within 20 to 50 years of dying out;
Now the French gov’t wants to speed that up by knocking off the old people faster.
how strange.
ping
Fre’re Jacques Fre’re Jacques, Dormez’ Vous?, Dormez Vous?
“No, I was NOT sleeping, just resting my eyes, that’s ALL!
Voldemort run France
It’s just their de-population program being implemented one step at at time.
French birth rate falls below two children per woman
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/14/us-france-demographics-idUSBREA0D0X720140114
(excerpt)
(Reuters) - France’s birth rate fell under the symbolically important bar of two children per woman and the country saw its lowest population growth in a decade in 2013, data showed on Tuesday in a blow to one of its economic strengths.
The population reached 66 million inhabitants on January 1 2014, up by 280,000 residents or 0.4 percent from the previous year. That was its weakest growth rate since 2000, a census by the INSEE statistics office showed.
The total fertility rate (TFR) fell to 1.99 children per woman in 2013 from 2.01 in 2012 and 2.03 in 2010. A rate of 2.1 children per woman is considered necessary to keep the population growing excluding migration.
While France remains the second most fertile nation in the European Union after Ireland, which had a TFR of 2.05 in 2011, the drop suggests that Europe’s number two economy may be losing what has long been seen as a key strength.
Just checkin’ the ole eyelids for light leaks!
Forty years ago Mom predicted the Muslim takeover of Europe as they contracepted and aborted themselves out of existence.
She also addressed how that lack of respect for life would lead to euthanasia.
Exactly. I think some of these A holes get a rush out of killing babies, but there is the law of diminishing returns. When killing babies does not produce the rush they crave, they turn to killing other people next. This may not be true of all baby killers, but I believe it certainly is true of some.
I had a friend who was put into a coma. He said goodbye to his kids and went to sleep. He died within about 3 months. He had lung cancer and could barely breath. It’s what he wanted. This is done all the time here in the US.
‘Allons Manger Grand-Pere!’
Am I wrong or are we in this country doing this for cancer patients now??
They are given morphine until a comatose state occurs and within 48 hours they are deceased, having seen this happen with several hospice
patients can someone explain to me how this is not the same thing??
That has to be an expensive way to meet your demise, I would think. Three months it took. Three months of constant care and monitoring. I presume this was done in a hospice. Most are not cheap. Maybe some of the costs would be covered under certain insurance plans. I do not judge those who do this. It is their life and their family to be considered, not mine.
Would you rather suffer in pain?
Wasn’t this the plot of inception? Or a sub plot?
My mom died from ALS and chose to stay at her home with her family until she could pass away on her terms. Her doctor prescribed her sedatives. He was very careful in choosing his words on dosage. He explained to my mom that with a compromised pulmonary system that a few too many of the sedatives would halt her breathing. He made sure she understood that.
Ones final exit is a very private matter. Dragging it up and down the media streets for public policy debates is not where the matter belongs.
He died at home. He was a county sheriff so I assume the county paid for it. Of course he had hospice care.
I’d do it if the alternative was to lie in bed gasping for air 24 hours a day.
My brother was put in a coma and died within the hour. I’ve always wondered about that one.
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