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"END OF LIFE COUNSELING"
1 posted on 07/29/2009 8:34:15 AM PDT by Edisto Joe
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To: Edisto Joe

Euthanasia.


2 posted on 07/29/2009 8:37:55 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Edisto Joe

I am 69 years old, when/if someone shows up to discuss end of life issues with me I am going to tell them to “F” OFF. My great aunt lived to be 115 3/4 and I just might decide to do the same!


3 posted on 07/29/2009 8:40:02 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Edisto Joe
The freedom to live ones life without government intrusion is sacred.

I agree. And even half the country believed that, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in.

5 posted on 07/29/2009 8:40:32 AM PDT by marron
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To: Edisto Joe

I bet they have a hard time finding anyone to volunteer for the job of end-of-life counselor.


6 posted on 07/29/2009 8:40:39 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: Edisto Joe

All the same counseling or no, I imagine there will come a time when I have DNR tattooed on my chest by my own choice.


8 posted on 07/29/2009 8:43:53 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: Edisto Joe

Tell them to get off your property or YOU will END their life !


9 posted on 07/29/2009 8:44:09 AM PDT by Renegade (You go tell my buddies)
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To: Edisto Joe
Obama "CARE" for the aged, infirm and seriously ill:

"You are too old, too sick, too... (fill in the blank) so OBEY; shut up, lie down, take a pain pill and DIE!"

Isn't it wonderous to see how much Obama and the democratically controled congress that are trying to shove this abomination down our throats (while they maintain their own private "Lexus Healthcare" for themselves and their extended families) "love" us and how "concerned" they are about our physical welfare?

10 posted on 07/29/2009 8:44:41 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (tot)
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To: Edisto Joe

All over France bed-ridden old folks are being trundled
into stuffy attics so their children can go on vacation.

I’m sure 0’s people are looking into this practice.


11 posted on 07/29/2009 8:45:00 AM PDT by tumblindice
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To: Edisto Joe
EUTHANIZE OBAMACARE, STAT!
12 posted on 07/29/2009 8:45:16 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (CITIZENS OF LIBERTY! RISE UP AND DEFEAT THE EVIL BEAST, OBAMUNISM!)
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To: Edisto Joe
The counseling is to prepare you for what is to come. Say you are 75 and survived a previous heart attack 10 years ago, but have had on and off angina. A cardiac cath and stent would give you years of quality life, but government bureaucrats looking at your health records will say no because of your age, history of obesity and that you were a smoker. You might receive generic medications for angina, but none of the more expensive drugs that would allow you some quality of life. You spend the rest of your remaining few years debilitated and hardly able to leave your home. If you have a heart attack there are government mandated no code, no treatment orders that will assure you die.
13 posted on 07/29/2009 8:47:06 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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I’m a senior. Hell - the counseling’s gonna be FREE ain’t it? One session every five years? I DEMAND counseling twice a month!! I paid in all those years! I got my rights!! It’s FREE, dammit! I want all I can get!


15 posted on 07/29/2009 8:52:39 AM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty.)
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To: Edisto Joe

They will convince people that it is selfish for them to take up resources that are precious and scarce.

Of course, with the Obamists in charge, a lot of things are going to become scarce, so there is some logic to this.

And the kind of people who vote for Obamists don’t much believe in life, and weren’t going to do anything anyway.

Seriously, this is where we wind up when a preponderance of people think that life is a cost rather than an ultimate value, that government is a source rather than a means to an end. That the living represent a load on the system rather than the purpose of the system.

I’ve often said that the interesting arguments are all on the conservative side, and its true, we don’t all agree on exactly how to skin which cats. But we share a respect for certain eternal principles, which means that however crazy some of us may be we share at the heart some common truths.

But when you are arguing with the Obamists you are dealing with a soul-sickness that makes discussion all but impossible. The problem here can’t be solved with politics because it goes so much deeper than politics. We have to defeat them and we need to evangelize them. You can’t share power with someone who doesn’t believe in life and doesn’t believe in liberty in the first place.


17 posted on 07/29/2009 8:52:59 AM PDT by marron
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To: Edisto Joe

In direct violation of the Constitution:

Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights. Ratified 7/9/1868. Note History

1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of LIFE, liberty, or property....


18 posted on 07/29/2009 8:57:20 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: Edisto Joe

I will tell them, read my living will when it becomes necessary.


26 posted on 07/29/2009 9:08:58 AM PDT by Know et al (Everything I know I read in the newspaper and that's the reason for my ignorance: Will Rogers)
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To: Edisto Joe

And aarp just loves this stuff.


28 posted on 07/29/2009 9:31:41 AM PDT by devistate one four (Back by popular demand: America love or leave it (GTFOOMC) TET68)
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To: Edisto Joe

Imagine how much healthcare money could be saved if those counselors volunteered to terminate their own lives 30 years ahead of schedule. They really should lead by example.

Bang! “Officer, we had a disagreement about who should die first”.


36 posted on 07/29/2009 12:07:03 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (BLOAT - Buy lots of ammo today)
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To: Edisto Joe

bttt


38 posted on 07/29/2009 9:18:34 PM PDT by Peace Is Coming
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