WSJ: Obama and Shinseki now pressuring Veterans toward Euthanasia

HUman Events e-mail ^ | 8/24/09 | Connie Hair

[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?

[Grampa Dave]

See Michelle, I told you that we had plenty of space to put all of the old and worthless Americans and worthless depressed and disabled veterans in and get them out of the way. We could put about 50 million of them in that big hole. Then, we can use their estate taxes to fund the 40 million former illegals, who are now legal citizens and our voters and needing free healthcare.

[sometime lurker]

This looks like a fairly standard explanation of the need to make your wishes known and how to make sure what you want to happen, happens.

I don’t see “pressure to pull the plug” in this. There are many different opinions about what people want done when they can’t speak for themselves, and I’ve seen what happens when people don’t write it down. I’ve seen terrible arguments between family members and unnecessary guilt. Informing people of how to make sure their wishes are followed is standard in hospitals and medical care. Why shouldn’t veterans be offered such information in the course of their health care? This isn’t new - the booklet was written President Bush.

[Grampa Dave]

“Mistakes” like the one below might become a common occurrance in VA Hospitals under the 0b0z0 thugs:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323431/posts

1200 vets mistakenly told they’re dying from ALS
Hotair.com ^ | August 24, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009 12:03:48 PM by rightwingintelligentsia

Just as the Obama administration tries to reassure people that the government can manage the health-care system more competently than what we have now, one of its single-payer systems demonstrates exactly what we can expect from ObamaCare. The VA mistakenly informed 1200 veterans that they have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a 100% fatal condition. They blamed it on a “coding error” (via JWF):

At least 1,200 veterans across the country have been mistakenly told by the Veterans Administration that they suffer from a fatal neurological disease.

One of the leaders of a Gulf War veterans group says panicked veterans from Alabama, Florida, Kansas, North Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming have contacted the group about the error.

Denise Nichols, the vice president of the National Gulf War Resource Center, says the VA is blaming a coding error for the mistake.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Old vets! Forget fading away..

The Obama credo for you is: doo-doo, horror, contemned

[GOPJ]

... 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?

PING

[twigs]

Thanks. I’ve told my family that if they start pulling plugs, I’m coming back to haunt them!

[Secret Agent Man]

Let's see if we can develop a “Presidential Death Book”.

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) Having to constantly live in a high-stress environment with scores or armed security around you and your family?

2) Being in the chair where the buck supposedly stops?

3) Not able to “shake the blues because you've spent all your political capital in the first six months in office?”

4) Ever heard me say, “If I'm a one-termer, pull the plug?”

5) No longer able to redefine rich as $50,000 or more?

6) Are you a severe financial burden to the working families of America?

7) If my approval/disapproval goes below -14, do you wish to be resuscitated?

[nmh]

Now you’re talking!!

I second this:

Let’s see if we can develop a “Presidential Death Book”.
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) Having to constantly live in a high-stress environment with scores or armed security around you and your family?

2) Being in the chair where the buck supposedly stops?

3) Not able to “shake the blues because you’ve spent all your political capital in the first six months in office?”

4) Ever heard me say, “If I’m a one-termer, pull the plug?”

5) No longer able to redefine rich as $50,000 or more?

6) Are you a severe financial burden to the working families of America?

7) If my approval/disapproval goes below -14, do you wish to be resuscitated?

[dennisw]

Seems like pressure to me....

[dennisw]

Write down your wishes and make sure many people have it...or the plug may be pulled anyway

[dennisw]

SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323883/posts

[dennisw]

INCORRECT!!
Your perceptions are off
Find out who wrote this “death book”——>>>

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323883/posts

[stormer]

Sorry, but I don’t believe a word out of Hannity’s mouth.

[sometime lurker]

Go to the "My Life My Choices" page and then choose "view source" from your "view" menu. It will tell you the date the page was created and last modified. While the modify date is July 2009, the creation date is 2000. Also, Perlman's bio page on the Dept of Veteran's Affairs site:

is most recent book, entitled Your Life, Your Choices, is an interactive workbook to help patients and family members with advance care planning. Your Life, Your Choices will be available to veterans through MyHealtheVet in 2007.

[emphasis added]

So Perlman joined the center in 2000 and was there all through the President Bush's administration. I suggest you read the booklet - it's standard stuff.

[dennisw]

I did read the booklet PDF. Downloaded it

[dennisw]

Read the PDF yesterday....It’s been pulled from that site at least

[huldah1776]

I know it’s been 6 years but I just found out that a Vietnam Vet was given the Terri Schiavo treatment and am doing research for his wife.