Posted on 03/19/2019 6:55:58 AM PDT by Heartlander
A Canadian man with diabetes named Dan Laramie, whose illness had advanced to the point he would need amputations, decided to be lethally injected instead. He was killed by his doctor to cheers and applause from family and friends at his euthanasia party — at which photos were taken to commemorate the event, and perhaps, to send along with the story to the media. From the Daily Mail story:
She said music was played an important part in the end-of-life celebration and he had even written 30 songs while he was in hospital.
Speaking after the party [Laramie’s wife] Stef said: ‘I don’t really feel loss, we don’t need any sorrow at this time and I don’t know if that sounds rude.
‘We had a really amazing relationship, if he had died in a way that we had no notion of it or by surprise then it would be a sorrowful thing. But I don’t think dying should be sorrowful.’
His friends, sister, son, daughter, grandchildren and some of his nurses all came to the party.
So, let me ask you, my dear readers, to ponder: If invited to such a “party,” would you go?
It could be an agonizing decision. Attend, and it seems to me you become complicit in the suicide/homicide. You validate it. You affirm to the suicidal patient that his or her worst fears about continuing to live are true, such as: my life can never have meaning again; I will die in agony; I won’t be remembered well; I am a burden, etc.
But refuse, and you could feel guilty for not being with your loved one at his or her death. Moreover, your family supporting the suicide/killing could ostracize you. “How dare you judge grandma! How dare you not be there to support her ‘choice’!”
Back at the euthanasia party, people were getting restless, and so it was time to get on with the killing:
Once Dan signed the papers and said he was ready, his family gathered at his bedside. Stef explained: ‘You could see sort of an energy in the room where people could feel that it was time.
‘It was a really blessed evening. It happened a little later than we had planned so you could feel people getting a little bit restless. ‘The doctor came down, he was beside us and the nurse, the pair of them brought such light and beauty into this assistance.
‘I can’t even tell you how beautiful the smile in his eyes was, he was so ready and it felt like everything we had talked about , that we planned about all these people made it the perfect exit.’
She said after he received three injections, his eyes closed and she gave him a kiss.
Stef said that Dan wanted a round of applause as he died so everybody cheered for him.
‘The release of all that energy, it was really great. There were a lot of things that were very comforting and Dan just loved every minute of it.’
These death events — this is far from the first such story about euthanasia parties — are being publicized in the service of normalizing euthanasia as the best way to die. It’s the real “death with dignity,” don’t you know? The goal, I believe, is to push society toward the point that having oneself killed becomes the expectation, not the exception.
Is this kind of thing right or wrong? It depends on one’s values and moral beliefs. Some may see it as empowering, dying “his own way,” as the media continually put it.
Others, as I do, see darkness and nihilism in cheering on death, an (often unintentional) abandonment of people at their darkest hour. Indeed, this story reminds me of Canadian journalist Andrew Coyne’s cogent warning against the culture of death from many years ago:
A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.
Cross-posted at The Corner.
The thing is did he watch his diet and exercise? If not then he only has himself to blame for his condition.
The thing is diet and exercise have nothing to do with his outcome. Insulin
injections cannot mimic the pancreas and after maybe 50 years it is inevitable that he would suffer complications. Maybe you missed what I said. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease.
This is not true. You don’t know anything about diabetes. She got it later in life and was blind and on dialysis. You need to educate yourself on type 1.
The left loves abortion and killing elderly.
"...I'm sorry sir...we cannot schedule that appointment for you in November 2010 to have that melanoma removed because you have not undergone your mandatory annual counseling after age 65...oh, of course you are right. I know you are only 62, but they did move the age down again this year...we have an opening in three months with the counselors office...would you like that?"
This above conversation is fully expected, but It will not be the people you will be FORCED to talk to in order to receive your care, nor the intentional delays in care that will be the most insidiously evil facets of this. It will be the conversations like this one below that will become commonplace that ONLY BEGIN to illustrate what it is all about:
FRIEND OF "JANICE" DISCUSSING "END OF LIFE COUNSELING" IN OBAMACARE : "Hi Jan, how are you? I heard your father is resisting counseling. It must be difficult, I know. There just seems to be so much of that lately. I know I am only 40 years old, but I don't understand why people like your father are so opposed to this.
I went with my mother to her counseling session, and while she was angry because she was supposed to have another five years before she had to go but they moved the age down again, she went anyway. I thought she was really rude to the counseling agent, who was just a young woman only doing her job. Hm.
Someone told me they are only hiring young women as counselors now, because the men who were doing it just got angry too easily and shouted at people to just "sign the damned papers". Hm. I tried to tell my mom why they have to do this, but she said they do it just to get rid of old people to save money.
The counseling agent gave my mom a copy of the book "Death is Joy". I read it, and it makes a lot of sense to me. Of course, when I was going to school, we didn't have to read it, but now they have required classes they take every year beginning in first grade.
Suzie is in third grade and is taking the course this year that deals with the chapter on keeping birth rates down, and Tommy is in his senior year where they cover the financial aspects of care for the elderly. He was so excited, he said that since they have implemented this national care program, the number of elderly people has dropped dramatically, so they can spend more money on programs such as monthly equality checks for the economically disadvantaged and reparations for the descendants of slaves. I think it is wonderful.
He asked me why so many elderly people are so selfish and refuse to accept counseling...I didn't really have an answer for him. Hm. Now, don't be defensive, I am not criticizing your parents.
I am just saying, it is a problem.
They had an hour-long program on PBS about this the other night, and they were saying how the people who are being selfish about this and refusing to take advantage of early exit programs that pay cash to their children are being so self-centered because they grew up in a time where everyone was self-centered and were interested only in money. You know, they showed films from the days of the capitalists where there were people who had what they called 'gas-guzzlers", and they used to make so much more money than they needed to live comfortably, so many people were going without health care because they were taking all the money..."
Then, just wait until they pass legislation for a "Death Benefit" that will be paid to the families of elderly people. That will be the icing on the cake. It will be presented as a compassionate gesture to help the families with their grief, and will put at ease those people slated for "end of life" counseling. I can see the conversation on this as well:
COUNSELOR: Thank you for coming in today, sir. Now, let's see...you have high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis but more importantly, positive genetic tags for vascular/heart disease, Alzheimer's, matricular degeneration and three types of cancer, prostate, esophageal and colon. Prostate and colon are very high. We see one of these two expressing itself in the next three years.
ME: Er...really?
COUNSELOR: Yes. This is all very scientifically based, and the results are incontrovertible. There is no mistake.
ME: Ahhh...could I speak to a doctor about this?
COUNSELOR: I am afraid not, sir. The rules are physicians are for direct care only, and nothing else. Federal Statue HCR23.1771-b mandates that I communicate this information to you, and inform you of the various options.
ME: But you don't know anything about medicine! You are a clerk, nothing more! How can I discuss this issue with you?
COUNSELOR: Sir, I have taken all the courses coming through High School, and attended the Life Counseling University courses offered by the government. I graduated in the top half of my class. I do understand the issues here.
ME: But...but...
COUNSELOR: Look, sir. You are getting old, and are soon going to be a burden on society. You don't have cancer right now, and can still think and get around, but for how long? You need to think about your children and their children. We offer a special financial compensation package that will help them bear the grief of your passing, to be paid out upon your death. With your approval, we emailed them an official forms packet before this meeting.
ME: I approved that?
COUNSELOR: Well, yes sir. The electronic copy is right here with your esignature (TURNS SCREEN TO FACE ME).
ME: I never signed that!
COUNSELOR: Sir, didn't you read the codocil that was automatically added at the bottom of your government supplied Will and Last Testament session that we finished up your first End of Life session you had with us last year? You did click the button that said "I approve all the changes" and you did use your voice authentication to say "I do approve".
ME: What! What is going on here? I...
COUNSELOR: Your two sons and your daughter who came in with you today have been in communication with our department on this. (Smiles) I think it is great that the government approves time-off pay for employees to attend these End of Life meetings for their parents. I'll call them in...
ME: Hey! I am not finished discus...
(DOOR OPENS, CHILDREN ENTER)
SON 1: Dad, I am so glad you signed up for the Early Exit Death Benefit. I was really behind on my tax payments for last year, and that will put me over the top...
ME: You...what?
SON 2: Yeah, dad. Billy is graduating from high school, and we want to send him to a quality college, but we could never afford it. But now we might...thanks to you.
Daughter: Oh, Daddy (tears in her eyes) I know none of us live forever, and I will miss you so much, but this money will allow me to pay th license fees to the government so I can open my dream business! Without you...
ME: HEY! WTF is going on here? I am not "ready to die", I feel pretty good, I could live for another twenty years! I didn't sign that damned thing, they just threw all this stuff in front of me! This is effing stupid! (TURNS TO COUNSELOR) Look, I don't know what kind of crap you set in motion, but undo it. I didn't sign up for this.
COUNSELOR: (PRIGGISH, TIGHT LIPPED LOOK ON HIS FACE) Sir...you have already been scheduled for next year, and your family has been paid that benefit in advance as the law allows. We cannot undo it. See the text that you signed (TURNS SCREEN) states explicitly that this if final and cannot be remanded...
ME: (SMASHES SREEN WITH HAND) LOOK! I DON'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS IF YOU HAVE TO BURROW THROUGH THE WIRES BACK TO THE CENTRAL COMPUTER SYSTEM YOURSELF, USING YOUR SLIMEY PENCIL NECK AS A LEG TO DO IT SO YOU CAN UNDO THIS ROYAL F*CKUP ON YOUR PART...
COUNSELOR: (HAND CUPPED OVER SPEAKER, EYES ON ME, WHISPERING) We have a 22-22 in here...get in here right away...
DAUGHTER: (WAILS) How could you be so selfish?
SON 1: Great. I might as well go down to the Tax Police right now to get fitted for the volunteer industry uniform...
SON 2: How am I going to tell Billy he can't go to the Barack Obama University? How?
DOOR OPENS, BURLY UNION GUYS IN BLACK COVERALLS RUN UP TO ME AND TASE ME. ALL GOES BLACK
Mary Tyler Moore was dxed at age 33 which gives her about the same 50 years as this man. If this man were dxed before age 18, then he did better than Mary. My son was dxed at age 3. JDRF told us he would be blind and on dialysis at age 17. But he was not. The number of years you have the disease is critical as are the changes in technology to help with better control. This man had nothing but urine testing to help with insulin doses for many years. He lived a terrible childhood with a blood sugar bouncing all over the place, because urine testing is very unreliable. You are in fact the one who ate himself to being diabetic, correct? But your ignorance can be remedied with education, which I have provided. You are welcome.
Or a shindig for Hong Kong teenagers.
Media is short circuiting human instinct. Survival at all costs has morphed into self destruction to preserve the environment and to keep our friends and family from worrying. Better to be put out of misery than live to see another day.
“he certainly had type 1”
likely, but no, not certainly - that is assumption by you. Medical field are finally admitting kids can have type 2 (self inflicted/lifestyle choice based diabetes) so likely people of any age these days could have started with type 2 at early ages of their lives.
Sick. And to bring children to the party is unspeakable
If there was any justice, the RCMPs would be waiting outside the door to this “party” to arrest the doctor and the nurse, who have clearly violated the Hippocratic Oath.
Pink lights on public buildings and cheers to celebrate infanticide why not a euthanaea party. I seem to recall that there was a small orchestra that played at one of the Nazi extermination camps.
I know plenty about Diabetes since I live with it every day, I have Type II.
Now we don’t all the facts of Mr. Laramie’s lifestyle, but I would hazard to guess he did not take that good could of care of himself. Diet and exercise are key components in the treatment of this disease regardless of which type you have.
Lots of people can live long productive lives with Type I, it’s a matter of constant vigilance in watching your glucose levels along with diet and exercise.
And you are still ignorant. What you have is a completely different disease from type 1, that you know nothing about. There are many many things you have never had to deal with because you don’t inject insulin ( injection site infections and failures which can be life threatening ) and you probably don’t run a sky high glucose from a bad cold and often have to seek er help.
It is much more difficult to manage hypoglycemia in type 1. Hormones play a huge factor in type 1. They cause insulin resistance, so suddenly the normal doses no longer work. Women menstruating also see fluctuations and cannot always predict them so often end up in the Er after a seizure.
If you have never had to have glucagon injected to stay alive, then you know nothing. It is a far more difficult disease to manage and only a tiny bit is about diet and exercise.
Hmmmm, wonder how that statement flies with these guys
Oct. 13, 2000 (Washington, D.C.) -- Soldiers exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War may have twice the risk of developing diabetes than those who avoided the plant-killing chemical.
I got my DX when I hit 70, not overweight, not a sugarholic.
Your comments do not apply. Read the story of his life. He is 68. So type 1.
It’s that blame the victim mentality.
I have worked in hospital labs since I was 18, from Illinois to St Louis, to Colorado and then all over western Wa state and Michigan. I have yet to see a child with type 2 and I was the alerter for er kids with high glucoses because I ran them.
They were always type 1.
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/28/10/2384
http://old.childrenwithdiabetes.com/d_0n_g00.htm
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