Don’t push people with disabilities like me to give up their lives by legalizing doctor-assisted suicide

NY Post ^ | 05/16/2025 | Dovie Eisner

[DFG]

Last September, I found myself — confused, groggy and irritable — staring into the surgical dome light of my local hospital’s emergency room.

I had been found by a passing police officer, not breathing, and with no pulse, after my ventilator hose had become disconnected and severe hypoxia kicked in.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation brought me back, and I’d been transported to the ER. I was alive — thanks to the determination of law enforcers and local medical personnel to keep me that way.

New York’s proposed Medical Aid in Dying Act threatens to undo this presumption in favor of lifesaving, especially for people with disabilities like me.

Given my own brushes with death over my 34 years — and those moments of staring into the suicidal abyss due to depression associated with my condition — I pray Empire State lawmakers take a step back, and rethink.

The bill, a mere 12 pages long, is deceptively enticing: It requires two doctors to sign off on a request for lethal drugs by a patient of sound mind with six months or fewer to live, with a diagnosed terminal illness.

It would offer those wracked by pain “death with dignity” on their own terms.

Death with dignity is a real thing — many ancient cultures speak of it.

But a good, dignified death cannot come at the hands of doctors helping patients dispatch themselves.

It cannot serve the cause of health insurers trying to save a buck.

I was born with a recessive genetic neuromuscular condition called nemaline myopathy.

I use a portable ventilator to breathe and a motorized wheelchair to get around. I often require assistance with basic tasks.

I’m not terminal — but many times, my own body can feel like a straitjacket.

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[DFG]

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S138

[DIRTYSECRET]

Just tell that to the leftists ok? You’re wasting time here.

[dfwgator]

This is where it ultimately leads...



"This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community 60,000 RM during his lifetime. Fellow German, that is your money, too."

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting.

“Directed Evolution” for... “Useless Eaters”, “Bitter Clingers”, “Deplorables”. Along with many other methods of POPULTION REDUCTION, you have outlived your usefulness. Your types are unsustainable, a drag on the New World Order.

Jack Kevorkian, Bill Gates and others would like you to donate your organs on the way out.

[BipolarBob]

https://youtu.be/iNCuCo-AWwE

[dfwgator]

Can’t wait to see the new Naked Gun movie.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

It depends. Don Lemon would be a perfect candidate.

[BipolarBob]

It won’t be the same.

[KarlInOhio]

Last time I had surgery the hospital paper pusher had forms for what to do if something goes wrong like a do not resuscitate order. She got a kick out of my request for the hospital plumber being on call because I wanted everything including the kitchen sink to be thrown into saving me.

[SteelPSUGOP]

At one point, we simply could not take care of my mom at our home ( dad and MIL was there too ).

We put her in the best facility in the area......the care was terrible. Loud mouthed Amish who resented the pigmentation of my skin. All lovey dovey when I was around.....

They would bring food, but if someone from the family wasn’t there to feed mom, she went without.

She wanted to go....begged me to do something. I didn’t want her to live like this. Dad wanted her to go too. They would sit, hold hands, forehead to forehead and cry.

[waterhill]

That’s nothing. Try Elk hunting.

[kawhill]

I was taught in the catholic religion that suicide was murder, i think they called it a mortal sin.

[jocon307]

Never mind the Nazis, look at what’s been happening in Canada. They see euthanasia as the answer to all of society’s problems with the sick, elderly, and disabled. It’s disgusting what is happening in that country.

[GingisK]

Dufus. What is legal and what one chooses to do are not really connected.

[Seruzawa]

Yes. Then one doctor. Then any concerned relative who is in the will. Then ..

[BipolarBob]

MY MIL is going into a home when she gets out of the hospital (fractured her hip for the second time), fortunately for her she has assets to get into a pretty nice place. The problem of growing old sucks sometimes. My FIL did in home hospice. That was a nightmare. All of the kids had to take turns being there until he passed. Fortunately for everybody (and him), it wasn't that long. He was ready and his body was wore slap out.

It's a hard decision for family members and the patient. There are no easy answers.

[enumerated]

How does legalizing assisted suicide “push” you into giving up your life?

Wouldn’t doctors still need your consent?

[Gen.Blather]

A lot of people tend to just agree with whoever or whatever is going on around them. They are easy to bully into buying things they don’t want or doing things they don’t want to do. Some especially obey authority figures like doctors or just someone wearing a suit. These aren’t usually your coworkers. They’re elderly or have diminished capacity or they don’t have a clearly defined “No-go” zone possibly because they were abused as children. All these types would be vulnerable to a doctor pushing them to “do the right thing.”

[Tell It Right]

How does legalizing assisted suicide “push” you into giving up your life? Wouldn’t doctors still need your consent?

That was the idea in Canada. The end result is doctor after doctor brainwashing you into death being better than living.

https://unherd.com/2025/05/a-father-battles-canadas-suicide-machine/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13966919/doctor-provides-euthanasia-Canada-pressured-kill-people-theyre-poor.html