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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
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.


41 posted on 08/24/2009 12:37:04 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: dennisw

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.


42 posted on 08/24/2009 12:38:13 PM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: nmh

“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.


43 posted on 08/24/2009 12:41:16 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: nmh
Old vets! Forget fading away..

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

44 posted on 08/24/2009 1:23:37 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: nmh; null and void; UriÂ’el-2012; Secret Agent Man; Carling; goodnesswins; hinckley buzzard; ...

... 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


45 posted on 08/24/2009 1:34:27 PM PDT by GOPJ (Journalists - - stenographers for Democrats - it wasn't always that way...)
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To: dennisw

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


46 posted on 08/24/2009 1:34:28 PM PDT by twigs
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To: nmh
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?

47 posted on 08/24/2009 7:41:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

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?


48 posted on 08/24/2009 10:12:12 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: GOPJ

Seems like pressure to me....


49 posted on 08/25/2009 4:05:15 AM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: twigs

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


50 posted on 08/25/2009 4:06:18 AM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: twigs

SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED!

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


51 posted on 08/25/2009 4:23:03 AM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: sometime lurker; stormer

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

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


52 posted on 08/25/2009 4:23:58 AM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: dennisw

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


53 posted on 08/25/2009 6:34:13 AM PDT by stormer
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To: dennisw
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.
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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.

54 posted on 08/25/2009 9:09:56 AM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: sometime lurker

I did read the booklet PDF. Downloaded it


55 posted on 08/25/2009 10:08:57 AM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: sometime lurker

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


56 posted on 08/25/2009 10:12:22 AM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: nmh

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.


57 posted on 04/12/2015 8:23:51 AM PDT by huldah1776
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