Posted on 02/22/2025 3:07:35 PM PST by DFG
A dangerous new bill introduced in the Oregon legislature would lower guardrails to obtain assisted suicide prescriptions, putting medically vulnerable people at risk in Oregon and across the country.
Senate Bill 1003, introduced during Oregon’s 83rd legislative session, would modify existing terminology in Oregon’s “Death With Dignity” law to allow physician assistants and nurse practitioners, rather than exclusively physicians, to prescribe lethal drugs to end the lives of people diagnosed with a terminal illness. The bill would expand access to legal assisted suicide, which has already skyrocketed in recent years as a cause of death for Oregonians and out-of-state residents.
“This bill is dangerous and must be stopped,” Oregon Right to Life executive director Lois Anderson said. “If passed, it will usher in death on demand available to anyone whether they live in Oregon or not.”
A dangerous new bill introduced in the Oregon legislature would lower guardrails to obtain assisted suicide prescriptions, putting medically vulnerable people at risk in Oregon and across the country.
Senate Bill 1003, introduced during Oregon’s 83rd legislative session, would modify existing terminology in Oregon’s “Death With Dignity” law to allow physician assistants and nurse practitioners, rather than exclusively physicians, to prescribe lethal drugs to end the lives of people diagnosed with a terminal illness. The bill would expand access to legal assisted suicide, which has already skyrocketed in recent years as a cause of death for Oregonians and out-of-state residents.
“This bill is dangerous and must be stopped,” Oregon Right to Life executive director Lois Anderson said. “If passed, it will usher in death on demand available to anyone whether they live in Oregon or not.”
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I am so sorry for your loss.
Sadly, your story is not uncommon. I have heard from few people with stories similar to yours. They are gut-wrenching. And then infuriating.
I saw an article on the Pew website that said nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (72%) say the pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it together.
The Kevorkian tendencies have become amplified. They walk in the open.
I wish I had answers.
Oregon’s politicians are taking the state on a fast track to hell in a handbasket.
And of course, you will be able to have your neighbor ‘cided by an Assistant Hitman or Apprentice.
I get the sarcasm, a 'joke' if you will, but despite my misgivings on the topic and the replies it will generate, an anecdote (true story):
On 1/1/92, a family friend found his son hanging from the upstairs railing. He was dead, having used an electrical cord which acted like a garotte and resulted in an incredibly bloody mess.
The deceased was my best friend who'd been suffering from medically induced depression (from service-related post-injury pain). The family friend who found him: His father.
Years later, my best friend's brother cared for their father throughout 18 months of pancreatic cancer, feeding him, bathing him, being his nurse...until he finally passed in his sleep. His final 2 months delivered incredible pain for which the meds at the time were grossly ineffective.
In the ensuing years I've learned 3rd hand how family members have discovered their loved ones in their favorite easy chair, firearm on the floor and their brains either on the wall or the ceiling, some with slit wrists in the bathtub.
I've had friends in law enforcement having performed welfare checks and discovered bodies in all manner of horrible, self-inflicted deaths, including intentional overdose (which is NOT 'clean' despite what some may believe).
Cinema does the graphic display of self-induced death - "suicide" - justice in art - ahem - but fails with the human factor which simply cannot be projected upon a screen.
Personally, I refuse to let EITHER side make a very personal matter to anyone who happens to be in such a position become a political punching bag just because the idea originated in leftist Canada (which I do NOT agree with how they are either delivering medical care nor their 'MAiD' program) and is now poised to become lawful in the subject state. Despite our religious upbringing, both my sister and I share the same view, that life is not so precious to endure unneeded suffering. In fact, we both basically share the same advance directive. Mine: "If I can't feed myself, communicate and wipe my own backside, put a pillow over my face."
Should I ever be in a position of terminal illness, I cannot predict my decision(s) but maintain my right to all options. Mandating that an MD violate his 'do no harm' oath is simply asinine and, frankly, unethical. If opposition cites this as a so-called 'slippery slope,' then we as Conservatives collectively FAILED at the slippery LANDSLIDE of COVID lockdowns which are assured to return. I am unaware of the language of this bill, but public debate on the topic should remain open, not closed due strictly to ideology. This is a personal choice matter, FAR removed from the matter of abortion.
If, for no other reason, that supporting giving people in impossible, terminal health positions both a dignified choice and one which saves family the trauma of discovery puts me at odds with other Conservatives, so be it:
I already wear a backplate.
I want to add some people to their waiting list.
Dehydration is ANYTHING BUT PAINLESS. in my practice and my medical judgment hydration is a part of comfort care of comfort care is the expressed will of the patient either through the patient or the patient’s selected proxies whose duty it is to speak for the goals of the patient which is often confused for directing medical care.
Just wait until it is legal for anyone to sell human organs just like taking aluminum cans to the recycling center.
Nitrogen is cheaper.
But doesn't sound as funny.
Regards,
Them, there bastards, Oregoners, should be cancelled, sent to Siberia, and forgotten!
Stop killing the unborn lives and Stop pushing the Seniors to die!
OREGON? Wasteland of commie bastards and sick pukes, LGBTQ etc.
Smoke your dope and die, Oregon.
One of the first ping lists I ever asked to be on. Oregon. Portland is not all of Oregon. I had a mate many years ago told a wondeful tale of wild Oregon. Reminded me of my finger lakes for hunting and fishing. Always stuck with me.
Your life is not your own to dispose of like yesterday’s newspaper. Your life is a gift that has been given to you. Make the most of it!
I suspect the party doing the bag over the head won't have an audience to enjoy the funny helium voice. In my air crew training classes, we were advised that upon decompression in flight that you have about 20 seconds of "useful consciousness" to act to get the oxygen mask on. The oxygen deprivation brings unconsciousness fairly quickly.
The Culture of Death will spawn more ways to grow the enterprise.
I think they call that murder.
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