”Our Panels and Sharia shall decide who shall live.
Families are uneducated .... and will have no say.
Just like the teaching of their children."
Posted on 06/22/2014 5:18:19 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
When a person has a disease that cannot be cured, do you think doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient’s life by some painless means if the patient and his or her family request it?
At first blush, the idea that a euthanasia should be allowed seems to follow a logic. If a person is suffering and wishes to end that suffering then who has the right to tell them no? It is their life, right? Only some troglodyte Bible thumper could possibly deny a person the simple mercy of ending their suffering. In this way it is no different than any other social innovation that has come down the pike over the past 60 or so years. It is a profound evil traveling under the guise of modernism and compassion.
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People are infinitely more important than animals and I think they should be given the choice to end their own life via medical procedures BUT ONLY IF they are terminally ill. If not fond of government getting involved in any way with these life-or-death decisions (nor am I fond of "medical experts'" advice either due to a loved one being severely permanently disabled from a family member's experience with piss-poor medical physicians threating him. I want the terminally ill to experience peace as soon as possible. If that means dying, then so be it.
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”Our Panels and Sharia shall decide who shall live.
Families are uneducated .... and will have no say.
Just like the teaching of their children."
Not to worry. Obamacare takes care of that for you. Outside of that, did your pet have the ability to end its own life? No. Does any person who is “suffering” from a terminal ailment have the ability to end their own life, Yes.
And therein lays the crux - folks have opinions based on personal experiences adn do not bother to actually think it through and cover all the myriad facets. We are all terminally ill in that we will all die. You speak of peace, but can't relate except that you see your dog (sorry for the loss) is no longer suffering. The article makes it very clear that euthanasia is a piss-poor idea and more likely to be abused than to do actual, measurable good.
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The trouble with euthanasia is that if you give liberals an inch they will take a mile. It would quickly go from a rare over-administration of strong opiates to give relief to a terminal patient in agony to a handy way to get rid of troublesome old useless eaters... like old veterans, old Republicans, old straight white guys....you get the idea.
Sound far-fetched and over-the-top? Just consider what is done to babies in the name of convenience.
Dogs do not have eternal souls. A (hu)man is not an animal, He/she is made in the image of God, and to deny this takes away the unique value of one’s life. If so, why not just kill any one that displeases you, or makes your life inconvenient?
It is a profound evil traveling under the guise of modernism and compassion.
Euthanasia is a ‘slippery-slope’ idea. It’s the gateway for terrible-terrible evils.
Just wait until it is no longer optional (as it is now, it's just called "suicide") and it's their turn...
Why sure the uninformed and immoral American people “favor” euthanasia until it’s “their” turn. Then they have serious “second thoughts”.
>> I want the terminally ill to experience peace as soon as possible. If that means dying, then so be it.
Just remember this at some point in the future when the government health care accountant decides that you aren’t worth the money and time investment anymore and the spreadsheet declares that it’s “time to put him down for his own good.” They can influence your decision greatly by just changing your pain medication dosage.
Maybe it will be like in Soylent Green where they let you watch images of a happier time as you drift off to death.
But, more likely, it will be like an execution by lethal injection. You lying there with a doctor and nurse in a cold hospital room. Your family just co-signed the papers, but leave because “they can’t bear to watch”. Then, an injection of something to give you peace, followed by another to stop your heart and paralyze your lungs. Perhaps they’ll even let you press the button to start an automated drug delivery sequence so everyone can claim that it was your decision.
I sympathize. Our 11-year old Greater Swiss Mountain Dog had bladder cancer and we had to put her down. It was over a year ago and I still miss her every day. Watching such a robust big and happy dog deteriorate so rapidly was terrible.
It’s obviously worse when you witness this with family members. My grandfather, once a powerful man at 6’4” and 220 pounds wasted away with bone cancer. It was awful. My grandmother approved every measure including a ventilator right up to the end. He was unconscious for the last 2 months. My dad, the oldest of 5 kids tried to talk his mom out of all this and let his dad die with a little more dignity. Just a tough emotional time for all, and there’s no easy answer.
I think it’s awful that people have to die prolonged, agony-ridden deaths. That’s why I have in my medical power of attorney explicit instructions that no “heroic” measures be taken to keep me alive.
Isn’t this what a living will is all about?
Thank you, Bobalu. You said it perfectly. If this poll is true, Americans are even dumber than I thought. Putting down a dog is nothing like putting down a human being. And just think of the sons and daughters of miserable elders who will get bright lightbulbs going off over their heads when they learn their nice blue state has just introduced “dying with dignity” laws.
Perhaps Progressives should enjoy the right to euthanasia?
But, alas, they are proponents of disaster only for others...
I’ll put it this way: If I were suffering so terribly that I wanted an end to life—or if my loved one did—I would not ask Big Brother in Washington for his opinion.
" Sound far-fetched and over-the-top?"
Hell no!
So-called "Liberals" would love it! It would be a great tool to get rid of troublesome political enemies.
You got that right, Bobalu!
And I repeat: I wouldn't ask Big Brother for his opinion.
Why is it that it is somehow evil to allow someone to curtail their own suffering and die, but it is fine and dandy to keep people alive against their own free will, no matter how much torture they are being put through?
We treat our dogs better than we treat ourselves.
The danger zone comes when family members who expect to benefit from inheritance start pushing the patient to allow his/her life to be ended? Even more nefarious is government entities entering the picture and working to convince these people they have a “duty to die,” a la Colorado democrat Gov. Dick Lamm in the early 1980s.
A ban on euthanasia is not an issue only for a “troglodyte Bible thumper” group. It is an issue that prevents opening the door for government statutes and political policy decisions to have control over end of life. We don’t want to go there.
Terminal illnesses that are replete with pain are effectively mitigated with pain management. Treatments are available that remove all pain at end of life. The cost of pain management is worth the banning of political groups from interjecting themselves in this area.
Further, along with pain management there are already provisions in the form of DNR instructions (do not resuscitate) and so the terminally ill do have control over their own end of life decisions in the sense they can decide that technology not keep them alive; the way it should be.
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