Posted on 12/16/2007 1:06:27 PM PST by wagglebee
As an aside to the euthanasia debate, let me present the horror as it exists today.
Institutional corridors full of aged, mostly mentally incapacitated women in wheelchairs, staring blankly at the painted brick wall opposite them, or sleeping. This is what exists today.
This is NOT to say that euthanasia does anything more than murder such women. Just that we desperately need something better than what we have, not to just argue whether a living death is better than a real death.
Isn’t there something better we can do?
Neither of those alternatives is acceptable. Both of them are so awful it would be worth it to run away while you still could, just so you won’t be trapped in that hideous either-or proposition. Either living death or euthanasia.
That is an intolerable choice.
I fear that you are quite possibly correct. It should also be noted that there is one huge reason for the financial issues that the nation is facing as the Baby Boomers age and that is ABORTION.
When the most selfish generation in the history of mankind made the decision to kill 50 MILLION children, they created a serious crisis for Ponzi schemes like Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.
Experience shows that the people demanding legalized euthanasia aren’t the same people it’s used on.
The problem is selfishness in society that has allowed people to become indifferent to the fate of their elderly parents, grandparents and relatives.
However, there is a reason that no physician has ever been convicted of a crime for administering narcotics or barbiturates to a person in the agonal stage of the end-of-life process.
wagglebee, do you understand why that is, and are you content with it?
From what I’ve seen, there’s a lot of talk out of some who are younger than the boomers to lower the level of medical care for elderly boomers to help us along our way.
There aren’t even enough pain pills given out today. And lack of pain pills may hasten acceptances of euthenasia. If anything, pain management will consist of a referral to a meditation guru and a packet of suicide pills.
This determination would be made by people exercising the same intellectual integrity shown by employees of the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
But beyond this, how is it that the government is determined to be the arbiter of this issue at all?
Only a socialist (communist on training wheels) would even presume that the government had any role at all in the issue (their point: because "we're all paying for it.")
Collectivism is the most profound present-day evil imaginable.
does it say anywhere here that, though girls may try to "commit suicide" more often, boys are more successful? that statistically males are more likely to actually complete the act than females?
this is, once again, the same ole pity party for females.
Think all 50 million abortions are to be laid on the doorstep of boomers? How many boomers were on the court that gave us Roe? Know which current members of SCOTUS are boomers?
Once the gals get help from doctors, you think their “success” rate won’t go up?
Wolf did not limit her fears of vulnerability to women. She expressed concerns for minorities, too.
I’m not talking about the leftist judges who allowed it, I’m talking about the selfish women who had the abortions.
And I think that this comes down to intent, do the doctors intend to relieve pain or cause death? There is a great deal of difference.
However, the culture of death sees euthanasia as a “duty”.
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The right to control one’s reproduction has become a **duty**. Just ask any woman about the looks and comments she receives when in a supermarket line with 3, 4 or more children.
Physician-assisted suicide
Women and children hardest hit
Good point.
If you think the only women that have ever had them were boomers, then by all means, lay all of the abortions on the doorstep of the boomers.
Most of the time, yes. Not always.
Double effect is great for college bull sessions and ethics manuals.
Sometimes (and it's rare), the morphine puts an end to an intolerable situation.
I think the compromise of criminal liability with a jury as fact-finder has worked out quite well, and shouldn't be changed.
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