Welcome to the Slippery Slope (Nurses want to give self-abusers CLEAN RAZOR BLADES)

Tammy Bruce.com ^ | 2/7/06 | Tammy Bruce

[SoFloFreeper]

Many societies have embraced an element of the Left's social scheme of glamorizing, enabling and assisting people with their own victimization--providing needles to drug addicts ostensibly to make the practice of slow suicide by drug addiction "safer." From AIDS, that is. Never mind stopping them. Never mind stigmatizing the scourge of drug addiction and the damage it does to families and society. Nope, let's give up, embrace the addicts and help them along.

Well, once society abdicates its moral responsibility to stop people from harming themselves to assisting them in their hell, the slippery slope coughs up the next step.

From the Sunday Times in England, take a gander at the depravity English nurses are seriously considering engaging in (now sit down):

Self-harmers to be given clean blades

"Nurses want patients who are intent on harming themselves to be provided with clean blades so that they can cut themselves more safely. They say people determined to harm themselves should be helped to minimise the risk of infection from dirty blades, in the same way as drug addicts are issued with clean needles..."

[SoFloFreeper]

Absolute depravity.

[camle]

hard to beleive this isn't the onion. bizzare.

[Wolfie]

Well, once society abdicates its moral responsibility to stop people from harming themselves...

Hence, the smoking bans.

[Cyber Ninja]

I don't believe it.

[Semper Paratus]

When my Mother-in-Law ended up in Nursing Home suffering, among other things, from emphysmia, I was shocked when I saw her dragging on a cigarette when I visited. The explanation was, this is their home and we can't stop them from smoking.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Give 'em machetes and guns.

[steve-b]

Ouch!

(Oh, not that kind of "self-abuse". Never mind.)

[apackof2]

Here also

[cripplecreek]

I'm thinking we should give them one time use guns and a place to use them.

[weegee]

The only smoking BANS are from employers that prohibit their employees from smoking even in their off hours.

Everything else is just smoking suppression. Banning tobacco entirely would be a smoking "ban".

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

If they are so into self-abuse, wouldn't they prefer dirty, dull razor blades?

[starfish923]

When my Mother-in-Law ended up in Nursing Home suffering, among other things, from emphysmia, I was shocked when I saw her dragging on a cigarette when I visited. The explanation was, this is their home and we can't stop them from smoking.

Those nurses were right on the money. Good for them! Emphysema is a killer from which there is no escape. Being in a nuring home isn't any fun either with the continual invasive poking and probing into one's body. Ugh. Your mother-in-law was allowed to spend her last days puffing away in some peace.

My aunt died from lung cancer, smoking 3-4 packs a day.
In the last months of her life the hospital wouldn't let her smoke. How stupid, useless and mean was that?
She was finally sent home to die. She smoked away those last weeks. She even bought a new blouse. I loved my Aunt Ginny. I miss her still.

I never have understood that mentality about the dying. Nurses and doctors would even have the dying "watch their diet." Completely unclear on the concept.

[starfish923]

If they are so into self-abuse, wouldn't they prefer dirty, dull razor blades?

I'm with you.
Also, if they are trying to kill themselves, then the dirty razor blades would speed up the process.

Trying to think things through, it seems that the doctors and nurses would have to work more because of the added infections from the dirty razor blades. With clearner razor blades, the hospital work is just a little bit less.

However, getting all the clean razor blades out and insuring their sterility is just more work for them to do.

Pah! It's just nanny-mommy, do-good-without-thinking-it-through, meddling that is TOTALLY misplaced to the point of being just....STUPID.

[Semper Paratus]

Dying from emphsyma is as bad as it gets. Your lungs can't breath enough oxygen in without assitance. Letting her smoke? I dunno.Might have been more merciful to just put a pillow over her head.

[Squint]

Ouch! (Oh, not that kind of "self-abuse". Never mind.)

LOL! That is so wrong.

[tioga]

Assisted suicide? We have that here.

[Betty Jane]

My father in law died recently of Alzheimer's. It's a dreadful disease. His body was healthy, except his doctor decided his cholesterol was too high, at 186. The doctor prescribed meds for it and ordered Pops to cut his cholesterol intake.

Well, one of his few pleasures left was his daily dish of ice cream. After a month of him sulking, we ditched the cholesterol meds and started serving him ice cream once again. He died of pneumonia 2 years later. So, the doctor would have him miserable for two years for some trivial thing that didn't cause his demise anyway.

Even if we follow all of the health NAZI's advice we still won't live forever; it will just seem like it.

[pollyannaish]

I took care of wealthy elderly people in their homes to help me get myself through college.

One woman I helped used to have weekly bridge parties. Four elderly ladies would come over, situate their oxygen tanks, sit down at the card table and smoke until the room was blue.

Used to scare the living daylights out of me. No one was ever hurt, but boy did I smell nasty when I got home every day. Blech.

[tpaine]

Tammy insists:

-- once society abdicates its moral responsibility to stop people from harming themselves to assisting them in their hell, the slippery slope coughs up the next step.

Well, tammy, since political 'society' has no moral responsibility to stop people from harming themselves, the real "slippery slope" consists of writing laws that enforce big brother socialism..