Posted on 01/29/2016 6:18:15 AM PST by wagglebee
That choice involves a value judgement. It requires the doctor, consciously or otherwise, to be in agreement with you or I that our lives are no longer worth living; that whatever it is that ails us, our worth as a human person is diminished to the point that "dead" is better than living.
A very interesting perspective.
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I can only imagine the kind of person who would be attracted to a career in medicine if they were required to euthanize people, for whatever reason.
You should be able to make the choice you (or your insurance company) can afford.
My primary concern is that this “choice” is often not a free one. A good example is the mother of a friend of mine who is 90 and is still competent insists she is not ready to die even though she has some serious health problems but is by no way terminal. My friend has guardianship over her and thankfully she is not of the type who would go against her mother’s wishes. Her sister and other family are almost begging her to force her mother into hospice so that then if she had a medical issue she would not receive care.
I’m not really concerned about people who are terminal or at end of life deciding to refuse treatment. However when it comes to outright euthanasia it almost certainly will increase the expectation that the infirm and the inconvenient simply be made to choose to die whether they truly desire to or not.
I know several people who are annoyed that their aging parents are ‘spending my inheritance’ on medical care.
How long before mom is expected to ‘just die’ so the kids can have Disney vacations?
My life, MY decision how I leave. If I am facing a severe debilitating end, where I am facing absolutely zero ‘quality of life’ and facing massive doctor bills because they want to keep me alive...STOP IT. Just let me take a cocktail of meds and pass gently with my family around me.
It is NOT YOUR DECISION how I end MY life. I don’t care if you are pro-life, believe that ending your life on your terms is an ‘unpardonable sin’, whatever. It is MY LIFE.
The young lady who went to Oregon to end her life when having incurable brain cancer was chastised by the ‘you can’t so that’ folk. Not YOUR BUSINESS. HER business, ONLY.
Sort of like a death panel?
“Her sister and other family are almost begging her to force her mother into hospice so that then if she had a medical issue she would not receive care.”
I thought hospice only took patient who were diagnosed as being terminally ill.
You mentioned that this woman was not terminal.
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My plans are already made. There is no way I will end up in a nursing home, riddled with dementia, and unable to walk, talk or feed myself, like my mother ended up. No law will stop me.
No country or U.S. state that has legalized physician-assisted suicide has required the doctor to be trained to diagnose clinical depression or other conditions which would nullify legal "choice." Neither do they have training to detect unethical family influence, e.g. heirs ("Grandma, we don't want you to linger in loneliness and pain. When you die you'll be in a better place.")
Where there's a *will,* there's a way ..... :o\ The ethical duty of the health care provider is to provide for your health.
And nobody is "healthier" dead.
Then go off by yourself and do it. Don’t involve others. Then it will be your own business.
I’m not comfortable with the idea of my insurance company ordering death for me, because that’s what they can afford.
Same for me. Everyone in my family, too. It's human to put a dog out of it's misery, the same should be available for humans so they don't have to suffer in pain for no decent reason.
God luck, my friend, we are about to be attacked mercilessly though by a bunch of nuttybars for our thoughts, though.
Neither was Terri Schiavo. It’s not difficult to find a doctor to declare her terminal. Especially if she’s 90 years old, with health issues.
How do you separate your “pro-choice” position from the snuffing out of life in the womb?
Terri Schiavo was placed in a hospice and NOBODY, not even her murderers, ever suggested that she was terminally ill.
” Especially if she’s 90 years old, with health issues.”
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Since I’m 83 discussions like this make me very twitchy.:-)
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