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Posted on 03/16/2009 1:30:51 PM PDT by wagglebee
Salem, OR (LifeNews.com) -- The number of assisted suicides in Oregon has increased 30 percent in the last two years and euthanasia activists themselves may have provided the reasons why. It appears members of Compassion & Choices have infiltrated the hospice system and are urging patients to kill themselves.
LifeNews.com reported on the increase earlier this month, but a Compassion & Choice press release last week provided an interesting take on the report.
The group said that "nearly 100% of terminally ill individuals using the law in 2008 were enrolled in hospice."
"Hospice enrollment among those using the Act increased to 98%, with 59 of the 60 individuals enrolled. Over the prior ten years of the Act’s existence, 86% of patients using the Act were enrolled in hospice, in itself a very high rate of use," the pro-assisted suicide group added.
“The first thing we ask patients who contact us is, ‘Are you enrolled in hospice?’” said Barbara Coombs Lee, president of the group, said.
Coombs said the assisted suicide law is getting more patients enrolled in hospice, but bioethics watchdog Wesley J. Smith says the pro-euthanasia group "should be ashamed, not proud."
"This press release is essentially an admission that its representatives interfere with the proper provision of hospice care, since an essential service of hospice is suicide prevention," Smith explains.
He says C&C's involvement in hospice is pushing patients into assisted suicide and corrupting the system.
"The published statistics from Oregon, for what they are worth, state that only two of the people about which the press release referred, were directed to a mental health consult, which is not the same thing as treatment," Smith said. "In 2007 there were zero referrals. This indicates that the patients who committed assisted suicide received no formal intervention for suicide prevention."
"How is withholding suicide prevention any different than providing inadequate pain control?" Smith asks.
He concludes: "Hence, Compassion and Choices undermines and interferes with the application of full and proper hospice care. I don't see any other way of looking at it."
The culture of death ONLY cares about killing people.
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I believe it is going to get worse, but since no one haqs been convicted of murder in these cases, not much can be done I suppose...
...culture of death...
Yep, you nailed it...
They want to kill you before you are born, and when you turn a certain age, they would like for you to die, regardless if you are healthy or not...
THer is nothing I dread more than being “cared for” by machines when there is little to no hope left.
At what point an urged suicide becomes homicide?
Some people in hospice are dying of diseases and the point of hospice is pain management until the disease claims them. Not everyone in hospice is hooked to a machine.
Practice for Nationalized Healthcare.
Funny how people can maniplate numbers to support a pre-determined conclusion.
The numbers presented here do not demonstrate even a correlation between hospice and suicide, no less a causation.
diabolical
Maybe we could infiltrate the patients and convince the Compassion & Choice people to kill themselves first.
Good point. Is it now legal to goad someone to jump off the roof? What about that woman that became a 16 y.o. boy on the internet and suggested to a teenage girl that "the world would be better without her", and the girl agreed? Are the sensitive and vulnerable now fair game for predators?
Your examples are relatively mild. The hospice patients are often in great physical pain and expect to die soon; they are especially vulnerable to such suggestion.
“they are especially vulnerable to such suggestion.”
Hence the presupposition that someone working in the hospice field should value life, not death.
Having lost a parent last year, being ever watchful meant something. God help those who don’t have that protection.
Apparently, especially in Oregon.
**Activists Infiltrate Hospice**
Not what we want to see, is it?
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And it's also worth noting that the "Hemlock Society's" name refers to the death of Socrates from ingesting hemlock. However, Socrates' death WAS NOT a suicide, his method of EXECUTION was that he was forced to drink hemlock.
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