Posted on 06/30/2017 12:09:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A total of 111 people in California took their own lives using lethal prescriptions during the first six months of a law that allows terminally ill people to request life-ending drugs from their doctors, according to data released Tuesday.
A snapshot of the patients who took advantage of the law mirrors what’s been seen in Oregon, which was the first state to legalize the practice nearly two decades ago. Though California is far more diverse than Oregon, the majority of those who have died under aid-in-dying laws in both states were white, college-educated cancer patients older than 60.
The End of Life Option Act made California the fifth state in the nation to allow patients with less than six months to live to request end-of-life drugs from their doctors.
Physician-assisted deaths made up 6 out of every 10,000 deaths in California between June and December 2016, according to state data. That’s much lower than the 2016 rate in Oregon, where lethal prescriptions accounted for 37 per 10,000 deaths.
But the findings have done little to calm the debate over whether allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medications is acceptable medical practice. …
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I have been in oregon for 5 years and you sure dont see many old people around, I think thats the main goal of obamacare, to minimize the social security burden
And shaft, er, shift the electorate.
Oregon’s elderly population has boomed the past 5 years.
2000 people have used assisted suicide.
And you’ve noticed there’s not many old people around? :)
Er, I dont think that’s quite the double controlled scientific method to determine assisted suicide’s effects :)
Pretty soon our special doctors will be holding down struggling Dementia patients to kill them off just like they do in the Netherlands .
Granny going thru the inheritance so its her time .
What a evil law .
as long as the person making the decision is sound of mind, I dont see the harm.
Having watch a few people go through this, yeah they may be “alive” but it sure isnt what I would call it...
Having the option and forcing someone are two completely different things, one is completely wrong.
Oregon Senate votes to allow dementia patients to be starved to death
Be very careful with advance directives, folks.
>>as long as the person making the decision is sound of mind, I dont see the harm.<<
I have had some pretty big dust-ups here (up to and including JR telling me to drop it or be banned) about people’s right to end their own life.
My take: The ONE right that every human being has is to end their life if and when they see fit, provided the method of their death does not hurt anyone else.
The State and other busybodies should stay the hell out of any decisions I make with My God.
If we don’t have that basic right then freedom is an illusion.
I watched a good friend suffer horribly for several weeks, yeah he was “alive” technically, but not in any way that really mattered...
In some ways I think modern medicine is at fault, they can keep you “alive” far longer than before, with no real benefit to it... except for everyone to watch him suffer every single day, knowing he WAS going to die anyway.
I am 100% against anyone except the individual or close family make that decision though, my family all know my wishes should something like that happen to me... there is no point simply lying in bed breathing just to lie there and breathe, when all reasonable measures have been used, its time to just go.
That is the goal of the left. Make it danmed easy for old Whites to off themselves to make room for their replacements.
The culture of death marches on...
I visited Sun City, AZ in May, and it is crawling with old people. Ditto here in Florida...more old people everywhere. Medford, OR has tons of old people as well. May be you are near Portland, where liberal agenda is driving old people elsewhere.
So, in 6 months 111 private citizens were able to access life ending drugs, but states trying to execute murderers can’t find the drugs to conduct the executions. Does anyone find that odd?
Odd? No. Unfortunately. But watch the stats after dementia patients are covered by so-called right-to-die laws. My bet is that the terminally ill were the camel’s nose, and targeting dementia sufferers was the real goal all along.
They’re still alive and well in the voting booths.
How does a long term alzheimers or severe dementia patient provide their request for such a prescription? Answer: they can’t.
I am not weighing in on "Yea or Nea" on this, but there is a subtile and dark middle ground. Families can and will put pressure on the elderly to take the option out of convenience, just like abortion.
I always figured that Obamacare’s required ‘End-of-Life Counseling Sessions’ were meetings with a Doctor, designed to convince the elderly that their life should be ended. Frightening. I am not sure other countries have this ‘once you reach a certain age’ required ‘counseling’ .
True, but that has always been there in one form or another.. and always will be sadly...
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