Posted on 09/22/2022 5:44:28 PM PDT by DoodleBob
To take advantage of California’s narrowly drawn assisted suicide law one must be terminally ill, with only six months to live, as certified by not one but two doctors.
I’ve long believed that state officials ought to consider expanding that to include Alzheimer’s patients and dementia sufferers who are not on the verge of death, and perhaps to people with other degenerative diseases or who are in chronic, intolerable, untreatable pain. They too deserve the right to make decisions about their own lives and deaths.
These days, right-to-die laws appear to be gaining ground...But in the midst of all this I also read a long and thorough Associated Press article about Canada, which has what’s described as “arguably the world’s most permissive euthanasia rules.” That story seemed to suggest we may be moving too far, too fast. It opened with the story of Alan Nichols, a British Columbia man with a history of depression and hearing loss who was, at his own request, euthanized. His family says the process was not nearly protective enough: Nichols was not “suffering unbearably,” which is among Canada’s requirements for euthanasia, was not taking needed medication and was not terminally ill.
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But let’s be clear: It was always going to be complicated to find the proper balance between protecting patients and helping them die. Complicated but achievable.
It should absolutely be possible to write laws that protect elderly, sick, disabled and otherwise vulnerable people from manipulation or coercion while still providing competent adults with options for relief from intolerable suffering or irremediable illness.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Composting.
Compost a commie for mommy.
My mama had vascular dementia. Even though it was hard to watch her slow demise, I wouldn’t trade one minute of being with her those last few years. She didn’t know I was her daughter for fully two of those years. I was just a very nice person who knew a lot about her and her family.
I hope this goes nowhere, but I realize there are many others who can’t wait to get rid of their parents.
Euthanasia.........in Quebec a do gooder doctor made a decsion to end a man’s life due to suffering, he has s single disorder and was in his 90s. The suffering? Well if was from being deaf.
They snuffed him. The man had no relatives.
I do not trust any of these aid in dying laws. If I am to die prematurely I can by by own hand with a govt model .45 cal.I want nothing to do with these idiots.
Can we expand it to emotional distress and market it the woke young college kids that can’t handle real life, instead of therapy dogs of course?
In California, they’ll get pre-composted.
That there homeless problem should be cleaned up “Real Good!”
Exactly the same with my mother. God decided when it was her time. But it would never have been for me to make a choice like that for her. I loved that little woman no matter what.
People with dementia cannot make choices like that.
Who just said “slippery slope “?
The left wants to get rid of the old people who still have memories of a land of liberty. And replace them with people who don’t expect too much liberty.
I bet, Mama told lil’ Chels that if ANYTHING suspicious happened to Mama, that she end up as a double tap headshot suicide victim.
Wouldn’t be a hoot if Chelsea were to slip a little something into her mom’s Chablis...to ease her pain!
I wouldn’t put it past Hillary to do that to Bill to get the sympathy vote for the grieving widow.
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