Swiss Hospitals Agree to Help Kill Patients

Christian Newswire ^ | 01/02/06

[ricardobaltazar]

I can only hope that when I get some horrible form of cancer that I will be allowed to have a trained medical professional help me end my pain when I choose.

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Scary. So scary it is hard to believe this has been allowed.

[twntaipan]

Note to self: Never ever get seriously ill or injured in Switzerland.

[ClaireSolt]

No, you do not have the right to demand that a medical professional violate the oaths of their profession to do something you are too chicken to do yourself.

[edpc]

other leading Swiss hospitals are now actively discussing permitting the procedure

Leave it to the Swiss. They'll find a way to do it with cheese, confections, and precision. You could try the tool below, but the vast array of choices would be vexing.

[ricardobaltazar]

No, you do not have the right to demand that a medical professional violate the oaths of their profession to do something you are too chicken to do yourself. Or physically unable to do?

[edpc]

I can only hope that when I get some horrible form of cancer that I will be allowed to have a trained medical professional help me end my pain when I choose.

Better yet....

You could hope a trained medical professional finds a cure for some horrible form of cancer.

[kstewskis]

I can only hope that when I get some horrible form of cancer that I will be allowed to have a trained medical professional help me end my pain when I choose.

Morphine and Dilotid are great pain relievers when it comes to cancer. Hopefully that will help your pain.

In the meantime, those trained medical professionals have sworn an oath to save your life. Not end it.

Leave that to God.

[popdonnelly]

Hey, doctors have been killing patients for centuries.

[ricardobaltazar]

Morphine and Dilotid are great pain relievers when it comes to cancer. Hopefully that will help your pain. That still doesn't mean that my quality of life would not be an issue. To cclarify. I'm not talking about offing myself the moment I get the bad news that I have a terminal, incurable disease. When it gets to the point that I am bed ridden and not able to do anything worthwhile anymore, I should have the option to not live anymore.

[EBH]

Welcome to FR.

Please be aware many here see life as sacred as well as suffering and death. Thereby it is all in the hands of God.

[palmer]

Hospitals discuss changing euthanasia rules

The hospital in western Switzerland said it would allow the voluntary euthanasia group, Exit, to help terminally ill patients who are unable to go home.

I wonder if they would allow a Christian group entrance to the hospital?

[Yaelle]

Doctors are already gods in Switzerland. They cannot be sued. The worst that can happen to them is a review by their peers. This news is extremely dangerous.

[kstewskis]

To cclarify. I'm not talking about offing myself the moment I get the bad news that I have a terminal, incurable disease. When it gets to the point that I am bed ridden and not able to do anything worthwhile anymore, I should have the option to not live anymore.

"Anything worthwhile?" I guess that's all subjective.

The fact that you are alive is worthwhile, especially to surrounding family members who love you, but that's only my humble opinion. Bear with me :)

At any rate, a living will should do it. Indicate that you do not wish artificial means keeping you alive. I believe there are legal means of keeping your wishes known, in case you are not able to express them.

Make sure the hospital staff knows that you are "NO CODE" in other words, no heroic effort will be made should you go into cardiac arrest because of your illness.

But let's not hope that it will happen anytime soon, no? :)

[lizma]

those trained medical professionals have sworn an oath to save your life.

I'm not sure that assumption can be made concerning docs in Europe. I read an article a while back, I think out of Denmark, that claimed the state (physicians) were bumping off grandma and grandpa before the families wanted them too. (Gram and gramps got too costly for the state to take care of.)

Europe better be careful what it wishes for. Assisted suicide by the nonproductive becomes an honorable thing to do??

[ricardobaltazar]

Welcome to FR. Please be aware many here see life as sacred as well as suffering and death. Thereby it is all in the hands of God.

Thank you. I realize that others have a different view on life and death and dying than I do. I respect those beliefs and therefore do not believe that anyone should be forced to end another's life. A couple of psters have said that I have no right to demand that a doctor end my life. Would you have a problem with assisted suicide being a specialty field, ensuring that only those medical professionals who feel ethically sound about performing it would be doing so?

[20yearvet]

why wast this on hospitals, I think we should have Assisted suicide in the prisons! Some one who is in for life just might want to checkout early instead of sitting around in a cell for 40+ years.

[kstewskis]

Europe better be careful what it wishes for. Assisted suicide by the nonproductive becomes an honorable thing to do??

I believe you are right. I am not familiar if the same Hippocratic oath stated by doctors in the US is universal...perhaps there are some out there that can chime in?

It is frightening, isn't it? It's as if Hitler's ghost has possessed some of those Danish MD's all over again.

[mtbopfuyn]

Dutch doctors now legally kill the terminally ill, the chronically ill, disabled people and depressed people, on demand.