No one opposes people making decisions on how they want end of life handled. What we do oppose is making it mandatory that people forced into counseling to encourage them to choose death or as it would become in such a system "an encouraged choice" or "the reasonable choice".
Just recently my Wife's grandmother who is in her late 70s had an incident when she was switched from pills that she took to control her sugar to insulin injections, her kidney's failed, her liver failed, Doctors didn't expect her to live through the next day. Well she didn't die and though some were ready to just pull the plug because she was old and suffering. She was aware enough to agree to be put on a respirator temporarily. Luckily the person with medical power of attorney felt the need to ask her what she wanted.
Today her liver has fully recovered and her kidneys are recovering, the doctors on revaluation of her medication found she no longer needed half of it. She is off the respirator and well on her road to being her old self. If a government system had been in control of administering her wishes I believe she would now be dead rather than talking on the phone with her 2 year old grandson Jason as she was yesterday.
All of us have encountered blind bureaucracy. Do we want to turn our lives and those we love over to such a system?
Lawrence Kansas.
Longtime home to zealots.
I know a psychiatrist here in Nashville who is a sorta Christian conservative.
I know another one who was a contemporary of Tim Leary and Dick Alpert and is a certifiable nut.
KANSAS GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS COMMISSION
Marci Francisco
Candidate for SECRETARY OF STATE
Marci Francisco is a Democratic member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 2nd District since 2005. She was Mayor of the Lawrence, Kansas from 1981-1983
08/08
Vickie & Joe Douglas
2804 Oxford Rd Lawrence KS
Joe: counselor mental health field
$200
Didn’t the Soviets try to use psychiatrists to classify political dissidents as “mentally unstable”?
—Dr. Joe Douglas, fascist
200 Maine Street Suite A
Lawrence, KS 66044
(785) 843-9192
Me too. No more Obamas, Clintons or Pelosis.
Sounds like he thinks Gov. Palin and her kind should be rounded up, put on trains, and conveniently sent to take a “shower” so they could permanently shut the h*ll up.
Another enlightened intellectual... thrilling.
America ‘on revaluation of her medication found she no longer needed half of it.’ but then that would crimp the drug industry’s profits a mite, eh?
This guy is advocating a ‘concerned passivity’ approach regarding the increasingly bold power grabs by the party in power right now. If the public does not roll over and accept what’s handed to them, like a trained dog, then they are ‘irrational’ or ‘divisive’. So what? Typical all-purpose democrat script, the same to be found anywhere from the White House to LGF. Tiresome, and fallacious to boot.
Glad he’s not my family doctor.
So the choice is “reform” or “reform”?
That’s not a choice.
“This sort of discussion is what is included in the current House version of health insurance reform”
And he knows this just exactly how? Are we to think he read and understood the bill?
All liberals lie all the time.
This alleged psychiatrist “Joe Douglas” should know better than to ask people for hypotheticals about the distant future. Gee, isn’t it easy for healthy middle-agers to solemnly speculate about the wonderful self sacrifice they will make in 30 years if they should become unhealthy.... Yeah, those are answers you can take to the bank. What a moron.