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To: Calpernia; combat_boots
Soros kinda buried his Project on Death in America in December 2003. The effort is still there, but I think the site was getting too much attention.

Luckily I copied and saved the following from the PDIA site:

In November 1994, George Soros delivered a speech on the questions raised by the culture of dying in America. His speech, reproduced here, elaborated much of the origins and aims of the Open Society Institute's Project on Death in America.

Excerpts:

Third, we must increase the availability of hospice services for terminally ill patients removing restrictions on admittance and enhancing reimbursement regulations. We should consider laws that permit next of kin to decide to forego life sustaining medical interventions even when a patients wishes are not known. The government may have to help family members financially so that they can take care of dying persons at home by the least expensive means. These are only a few of the approaches to transforming the culture of dying that our project will be exploring in the months to come.

More:

This brings me to that hotly debated subject, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. This is the one aspect of dying that is talked about everywhere -- on television, in public forums, in newspaper headlines, and serious journal articles. Voters in Oregon just approved a law that makes it the first state to lift the prohibition against physician-assisted suicide.

As the son of a mother who was member of the Hemlock Society, and as a reader of Plato's Phaedra, I cannot but approve. But I must emphasize that I am speaking in my personal capacity and not on behalf of the Board of the Project on Death in America. There are members of the Board who take a different position and the Board as a whole wants to steer clear of the issue because it feels it has plenty to do before opening that Pandoras box. Instead of getting embroiled in the debate on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, they want to support the training of health care professionals, enabling them to provide humane, compassionate care to the dying, including improved physician-patient communication, patient-centered care, better physician judgment on withdrawing or withholding care, and familiarity with the principles and practices of palliative care.

1,209 posted on 03/25/2005 12:35:13 PM PST by windchime (Hillary: "I've always been a preying person")
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To: windchime

Notice how they use flowery language and make it all sound so nice and caring to the mainstream?


1,226 posted on 03/25/2005 12:40:08 PM PST by SvdByFaith ("Lord, THY will not my will...")
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To: windchime
He said, in effect, that his work was concluded. Meaning he had turned our culture sufficiently.

You're taking me back to old times we shared.

1,231 posted on 03/25/2005 12:40:50 PM PST by MarMema ("America may have won the battles, but the Nazis won the war." Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall)
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To: windchime

From the way Soros behaves, I know by my definition, he is an anti-Christ with a little a, but sometimes he gives me the willies like he were the big A....dark he is.


1,244 posted on 03/25/2005 12:45:29 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: windchime

His grant monies are still active with PDIA

http://www2.soros.org/death/newsletter8/nursing.html


1,263 posted on 03/25/2005 12:53:41 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: windchime
We should consider laws that permit next of kin to decide to forego life sustaining medical interventions even when a patients wishes are not known.

Well that certainly explains Soros' involvement in this particular case. He has the philosophy, and he has the deep pockets -- which are apparently stuffed with judges and law enforcement.

1,317 posted on 03/25/2005 1:18:56 PM PST by shezza (Eagles Up!)
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To: windchime

Widmchime - in your post on Soros, the sentence about his mother being a member of the Hemlock Society leaped out at me. In addition, I believe I remember reading somewhere that his father collaborated with the Nazis, but I'm not sure in what capacity....


1,369 posted on 03/25/2005 1:42:11 PM PST by nanetteclaret (The LORD is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Psalm 9:16)
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