11 end lives under Wash.'s assisted suicide law

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[JoeProBono]

SEATTLE (AP) -- An advocacy group says 11 patients used medications to end their lives during the first six months of Washington state's assisted suicide law.

[JoeProBono]

[2banana]

Wait until the death panels get started...

[JoeProBono]

[A CA Guy]

Any of them their Congressman or Senators?

[pnh102]

I give this a few months for a right to die to morph into a duty to die.

[precisionshootist]

These people are sick and twisted beyond belief.

[cranked]

11 in 6-months?

How many refused to opt for such a ‘choice’?

Oh wait, you won’t hear that number from those ‘life choice’ advocacy group(s)....

[Jo Nuvark]

Not to be insensitive to this awful travesty, but...

I wonder if anyone has calculated the extended
tax revenue that would have been generated by
these eleven deceased, should they have been given
adequate care and then subsequently recovered and
lived ten more years?

[pnh102]

I wonder how life insurance companies have been reacting to these laws. Have any simply made suicide exclusions universal?

[cranked]

Good question.

[Retired Greyhound]

Frankly, I’m all for people deciding if they want to end their own lives.

[TruthBeforeAll]

SEATTLE (AP) -- An advocacy group says 11 patients used medications to end their lives during the first six months of Washington state's assisted suicide law.

med⋅i⋅ca⋅tion
Pronunciation [med-i-key-shuhn]
–noun
1. the use or application of medicine.

med⋅i⋅cine
Pronunciation [med-uh-sin or, especially Brit., med-suhn]
Show IPA noun, verb, -cined, -cin⋅ing.
–noun
1. any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy.
2. the art or science of restoring or preserving health or due physical condition, as by means of drugs, surgical operations or appliances, or manipulations:

poi⋅sonpoi⋅son Pronunciation [poi-zuhn]
–noun
1. a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.

[HighlyOpinionated]

This goes against every molecule in my body, mind, soul and spirit. Suicide is suicide no matter what ‘reason’ anyone uses.

You never get a do-over with suicide.

You think you’re unable to handle any more pain . . . emotional or physical . . . but HOW Do You Know if you end your life?

What happens if you end your life and in two months a scientist comes up with a cure for what you were suffering from?

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there is suicide, there is 0bamaCare.

[556x45]

I’ve never really understood the logic of ‘suicide laws’. Why do you need a pass from the govt to off yourself?

[Robwin]

ping

[Sparko]

"Frankly, I’m all for people deciding if they want to end their own lives."

While I agree with you on principle, the problem with suicides is that they leave others behind.

Regarding the article, there is so little to go on in the article other than an indirect link to an association (Compassion and Choices of Washington) that makes it a point to help people kill themselves, it is difficult to make a judgment as to what happened or the circumstances.

There are many of us here who have seen a loved one suffering; perhaps a spouse of many years, or an elderly parent; someone who is clearly without any hope of recovery, who is incapable of speech, who is in deep pain, who is in long term care, on some 24 hour treatment such as IV, feeding, dialysis, and so on. Someone who has a DNR and has had discussions with the family prior to the accident or injury or disease.

At such a point, I expect that most would continue to pray that the Good Lord do His work and would request either a complete recovery or a quiet eternal sleep - - without the assistance of the Compassion and Choices of Washington or other eager pill pushers.

I am going to end close my two cents with a collection of contradictory thoughts on this topic.

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When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it’s time to check your premises.
-Nathaniel Branden

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

In most cases, suicide is a solitary event and yet it has often far-reaching repercussions for many others. It is rather like throwing a stone into a pond; the ripples spread and spread.
-Alison Wertheimer

Suicide creates a monstrous emotional upsurge of shame and guilt. Everyone participates in feeling responsible and even shamed at knowing the suicidal candidate. If these feelings are not healed the vampire of suicidal death can strike again and again.
-Linda Lee Landon

All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.
-Hermann Hesse

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice . . . that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so deliberately, that he kills himself with thinking - one could barely call it suicide since it is thinking which takes his life. He does not kill himself with deliberation but rather kills himself because of deliberation.
-Soren Kierkegaard

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest - whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories - comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer.
-Albert Camus

[Retired Greyhound]

I agree with you. I would never encourage suicide. I don’t think the state should participate in it at all.

But a person should be able to go to a doctor and end their own life.