When you get the AMA to agree to give pain killing drugs to dying patients at the manufacturers cost and stop this crap about worrying they will become addicted to the pills, that’s when I will agree to Say No to Assisted Suicide. Until then, don’t even bother to post the articles.
>>Of the patients involved, 26 percent were independently diagnosed with depression. they weren’t treated — giving credence to the notion that assisted suicide is a cure looking for a problem.<<
What, you expect that someone who is in such serious condition that they have agreed to assisted suicide to become cheerful? Ignorance abounds.
This article is 3/4 about the money that the doctors and terminal care givers will lose and 1/4 about compassion for the dying.
wagglebee, I forgot to mention but this form of suicide probably prevents the organ harvesters from coming in with their knives and cooler boxes, doesn’t it. There’s a lot of cold hard cash in a fresh corpse for the organ harvesters, isn’t there? It would be a shame to see all that money go to waste.
If anyone reads hospice literature or talks to hospice personnel, you will see that they do provide pain meds and are on the forefront of not worrying about whether a terminal cancer patient will become “addicted” to them.
The argument is specious and without merit.
Regarding the slippery slope argument above, and “looking to EU for guidance”, that is not what I meant at all. My point is that once the door is opened for doctors to kill people if they ask for it, then people can and will be coerced or pressured into “asking” for it, or not ask for it at all, or other people will decide it’s the best thing. As IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW in Europe, and will most assuredly happen here if more doc assisted suicide is legalized.
It’s not a question of looking to EU for guidance, it’s a question of leftists who love death wanting to eliminate more useless eaters. It’s a question of people lives’ being valued only if certain criteria are met, and if not met, the lives are considered useless.
If you value life - not just your own, but others’ - then abortion, assisted suicide and euthenasia are all evil, without exception (regarding abortion, if the life of the mother is really at stake, then in IMO it’s good - such as ectopic pregnancy, side note).