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WSJ: Obama and Shinseki now pressuring Veterans toward Euthanasia
HUman Events e-mail ^ | 8/24/09 | Connie Hair

Posted on 08/24/2009 10:57:19 AM PDT by nmh

The Wall Street Journal just published a shocking editorial written by a respected University President, confirming the Obama Administration is now using VA hospitals to order doctors to pressure all military veterans to sign "pull the plug" do-not-resuscitate orders, hastening their premature deaths through mandatory "end of life" counseling.

President Jim Towey of Saint Vincent's College, founder of the non-profit "Aging With Dignity" and former White House Director of faith based initiatives, wrote a blistering expose entitled "The Death Book For Veterans," revealing President Obama's new Veterans Administration (VA) directive, presumably signed by VA Secretary, General (ret.) Eric Shinseki, which mandates all veterans' primary care physicians must graphically discuss "end of life planning" with all VA patients (not merely those nearing death), and must refer them to "Your Life, Your Choices," a book that openly encourages Euthanasia and was written with guidance from the group formerly known as the Hemlock Society. That same pro-suicide group now boasts on their web-site of directly leading the charge to ensure "end of life counseling" is mandated in the Obamacare bill, HR 3200.

On page 21 of the Shinseki-mandated Veteran's Euthanasia book, all military veterans are encouraged to complete a checklist of various scenarios, to decide whether their own life would be "not worth living." For example, the booklet asks veterans 7 questions pressuring veterans to sign a "living will" that authorizes doctors to terminate your life, if you are:

1) Living in a nursing home?

2) Being in a wheelchair?

3) Not able to "shake the blues?"

4) Ever heard anyone say, "If I'm a vegetable, pull the plug?"

5) No longer able to contribute to your family's well-being?

6) Are you a severe financial burden to your family?

7) Do you cause severe emotional burden for your family?

(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bhoveterans; cultureofdeath; deathbook; endoflife; euthanasia; hemlocksociety; obama; pressure; shinseki; vets
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To: nmh

It was fun to make albeit staring at Obama for so long to edit, was a chore.


21 posted on 08/24/2009 11:18:31 AM PDT by aphid
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To: nmh
Here is a working link: www.rihlp.org/pubs/Your_life_your_choices.pdf

I've downloaded and read this entire document. The Human Events article (and most of the other coverage about this booklet) completely misrepresent the contents. This DOES NOT even come close to advocating any of the crap folks are saying. It contains information and exercises used to help people to plan for circumstances when they may not be able to communicate themselves. End of story. I'm going to print out copies for my parents and my wife and self to fill out. If more people did so we could avoid a great deal of soul searching an heartbreak later on. Anybody remember Terri Shiavo?

22 posted on 08/24/2009 11:19:35 AM PDT by stormer
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To: nmh

Vets and active duty need to file a class action lawsuit with a good attorney demanding the BC. Hussein wants to kill vets off.


23 posted on 08/24/2009 11:22:30 AM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs - American Hero! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: theFIRMbss
What is also bizarre is that most people will never take the time to actually look at it, but instead believe what Sean Hannity has to say. I don't understand lying about something so easily refuted.
24 posted on 08/24/2009 11:23:44 AM PDT by stormer
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To: nmh
Pravada
Hail to the Thief !
25 posted on 08/24/2009 11:24:07 AM PDT by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: Frantzie

Read the document before you cinch up the tin foil.


26 posted on 08/24/2009 11:24:33 AM PDT by stormer
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To: nmh

And when not enough veterans decide to die the liberals will find new reasons to “help” them decide.


27 posted on 08/24/2009 11:25:48 AM PDT by Seruzawa (Obamalama lied, the republic died.)
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To: nmh

Shinseki first.


28 posted on 08/24/2009 11:27:26 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: twigs

“They put her in there to die.”

Who is they?


29 posted on 08/24/2009 11:27:41 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: stormer
Read the document before you cinch up the tin foil.

None of this crap is the business of the federal government.

30 posted on 08/24/2009 11:36:38 AM PDT by Stentor (.)
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To: stormer
I've downloaded and read this entire document. The Human Events article (and most of the other coverage about this booklet) completely misrepresent the contents. This DOES NOT even come close to advocating any of the crap folks are saying. It contains information and exercises used to help people to plan for circumstances when they may not be able to communicate themselves. End of story. I'm going to print out copies for my parents and my wife and self to fill out. If more people did so we could avoid a great deal of soul searching an heartbreak later on. Anybody remember Terri Shiavo?

The slant of that entire booklet is to pressure the elderly Veteran to go for having the plug pulled on him...And to write a living will that reflects this. You are blind if you cannot see it. Maybe that's why the booklet was pulled when GW was president and Obama reinstated it

My father was an elderly WW2 veteran and he made out a living will which is what this booklet is a guide for. He never saw that death booklet.  I was in his presence when he made out his living will and it was completed very quickly with zero pressure. Very few words were spoken. As it was he was pretty much in the "pull the plug" school but zero and I mean ZERO pressure was exerted on him.

31 posted on 08/24/2009 11:38:19 AM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: swain_forkbeard

Hospital personnel. She was taken there because of heart failure and stuck on a floor with no monitoring and almost no meals. My brother said that it was though they (medical “professional”) was just waiting for her to die.


32 posted on 08/24/2009 11:38:22 AM PDT by twigs
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To: twigs

Have your mom / mom’s doc look into a heart assistance device (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_assist_device). They may be able to extend her life with one.


Disclaimer - not a doc or nurse or medical professional. If you take advice over the internet without checking with your doctor first, you are really really stupid.


33 posted on 08/24/2009 11:38:48 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: dennisw

How long ago was that?


34 posted on 08/24/2009 11:39:19 AM PDT by twigs
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To: Stentor

None of this crap is the business of the federal government. ...............

Exactly! If you want a living will then make one out, it’s a good idea. But without US Federal Gov pressure. And that death booklet is designed to pressure and direct towards pulling the plug as soon as possible


35 posted on 08/24/2009 11:40:42 AM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: nmh

Over my dead body.


36 posted on 08/24/2009 11:41:21 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Fili et Spiritus Sancti.)
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To: twigs

My father made out his living will 3 years ago in the presence of a lawyer and passed onward a year later. But like I said no pressure was exerted one way or the other.

This US Gov booklet is slanted


37 posted on 08/24/2009 11:42:54 AM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: dennisw

Yes, it is. I know that people opt to make this decision, but it needs to be completely of their own freewill; it sounds like that’s how your father made the decision. That’s the right way...


38 posted on 08/24/2009 11:47:01 AM PDT by twigs
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To: twigs

Living wills are not just for those who want to have the plug pulled if they are in a bad way. You should also make your wishes known if you want to live no matter what....or something in between


39 posted on 08/24/2009 12:03:45 PM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: dennisw

Everyone with a family should make a living will. I did it about 10 years ago.


40 posted on 08/24/2009 12:10:28 PM PDT by balls
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