Posted on 11/03/2014 7:07:13 PM PST by surroundedbyblue
The euthanasia of Nancy Fitzmaurice, a severely disabled child who was not dying has made international waves with disability advocates especially outraged. Nancy’s mother had requested that her daughter be killed and was granted approval by the British legal system. While the 12-year-old Nancy had significant disabilities, she was able to breathe on her own and did not require life support.
Following the starving of Nancy through the withholding of fluids, the Autism Self Advocacy Network has released a statement slamming this decision, calling it “troubling” and “concerning”.
They said that:
The decision constitutes an extremely troubling legal precedent, representing the first time the British legal system has allowed a child breathing on her own, not on life support and not diagnosed with any terminal illness, to be killed by the medical system.
Euthanasia of people with disabilities is an extremely dangerous and wholly inappropriate solution to inadequate pain management. In cases where painkillers are insufficient, a number of alternatives for pain management exist. A policy of euthanasia targets vulnerable people, particularly when it is applied to children. People with disabilities who experience chronic pain should have same access as others to life-sustaining medical treatment.
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Not really. Brittney Maynard had a brain tumor......How can you be sure she was really, truly thinking clearly and “deciding on her own life”?
Furthermore, others were involved in the taking of her life. She didn’t act alone, independent of anyone.
If the church treats the low-functioning autistic person as only a disruption, as if the person is incapable of "getting anything" from attending church, the church has rendered an eternal judgment against them, declaring that the low-functioning disabled person lacks the (imagined) minimum level of physical/mental participation required in order to be forgiven/saved (Matthew 5:22b).
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The death culture marches on...
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Those who forget history...
Both cases are outrageous. Maynard’s in particular. Just because the docs say you are terminal does not guarantee that it is imminent (since after all we are all terminal are we not?). Maynard gave up and didn’t want to do the hard healing work that comes after chemo and radiation ‘treatments’.
Let's not forget Christians, Jews, and conservatives in general. Especially those nasty gun owners.
we might as well close down the hospitals.....if you have cancer, you have no hope so why bother..
joy and hope and thankfulness vs selfishness and despair.....
Actually, the Nazis were a little bit more "merciful:" They didn't force their victims (institutionalized patients) to die of slow starvation and thirst; they "hurried along" the process with injections.
Regards,
I don’t know. Reading about this it becomes apparent that the little girl was in agony despite pain meds being pumped into her, but the way she died was horrible. If they are going to let people die, they could at least give them a lethal injection, instead of this depriving them of fluids as if doing that means that it is any less killing someone.
Um, no. Hastening someone’s death is murder. Your post sounds like you support what happened!!!
surroundedbyblue,
America started heading down this slippery slope decades before Brittany Maynard. We are reaping the fruits of legalized abortion and secular education. We are living in a post-Christian society.
Clearly the mother wants an out from what SHE is suffering, and that can’t be denied as most parents that have children with disabilities of course would suffer for their children from time to time.
However in this case it does seem the mother cannot deal with her own issues regarding her child....so her answer for relief was to simply remove the source of her issues..her child....and Not really much different then mothers who abort their children as generally has to do with how it will affect their own lifestyle...which again points to their own issues.
Agreed. I think it’ll get a lot worse.
I don’t think it is great that this was done, but leaving a little girl to suffer when she isn’t even terminally ill but in constant pain and morphine and other painkillers don’t work is just awful. Lets just say I’m ambivalent about this.
I read that story too and it gave me great hope and inspiration. What some knuckle heads do not seem to get is that NOONE is promised tomorrow
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