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GOP calls VA pamphlet a 'death book.' Experts say it isn't
McClatchy Newspapers ^
| Chris Adams
Posted on 09/02/2009 6:51:34 PM PDT by Dubya
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posted on
09/02/2009 6:51:34 PM PDT
by
Dubya
To: Dubya
Who are you going to believe? The “experts” or your own lyin’ eyes?
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posted on
09/02/2009 6:53:06 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Dude! Where's my country?)
To: Dubya
This expert says it’s a death book.
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posted on
09/02/2009 6:53:23 PM PDT
by
LikeLight
(http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
To: Dubya
FREE REPUBLIC THE BEST SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB.
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posted on
09/02/2009 6:53:59 PM PDT
by
Dubya
(Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
To: Dubya
McClatchy's approach to this is so filimitous ~ the VA book was written by the HEMLOCK SOCIETY, a group dedicated to convincing people to commit suicide.
What did they imagine the intent behind it was.
This newspaper chain can't go bankrupt fast enough!
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posted on
09/02/2009 6:54:45 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Dubya
Its very sad the VA put out that book.
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posted on
09/02/2009 6:55:46 PM PDT
by
Dubya
(Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
To: FlingWingFlyer
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posted on
09/02/2009 6:56:02 PM PDT
by
Typical_Whitey
(The only misinformation about healthcare reform is the words that come out of Obama's mouth.)
To: LikeLight
GOP calls VA pamphlet a 'death book.' Experts say it isn't Proving that "experts" don't know what they're talking about.
Or they're lying...
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posted on
09/02/2009 6:56:19 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: Dubya
The booklet contains exercises that ask veterans to ponder whether, for example, life would be worth living in a wheelchair or in a nursing home. It offers a range of options that start with life being "difficult but acceptable" and ends with "not worth living."
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posted on
09/02/2009 6:58:39 PM PDT
by
Dubya
(Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
To: Dubya
Do you like living?
A) kinda.
B) sort of.
C) Give me a pill.
D) My master, Obama is obsessed with death, so I guess I’ll let him decide.
E) Get the F*** out of my life.
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posted on
09/02/2009 7:00:42 PM PDT
by
Indy Pendance
(The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
To: Dubya
VA critics, however, say the book is flawed because a VA physician and ethics official they say advocates physician-assisted suicide helped write it. Robert Pearlman, the book's lead author, joined three dozen other physicians and scholars in a 1996 brief arguing that the Supreme Court should recognize the right to physician-assisted suicide. Pearlman said, however, "I am not an advocate for physician-assisted suicide."
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posted on
09/02/2009 7:02:31 PM PDT
by
Dubya
(Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
To: Dubya
The experts are right, dead on, if you will. It isn’t a death book. Because of its binding, it is actually a death pamphlet.
To: LikeLight
This veteran says it’s a death book...
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posted on
09/02/2009 7:11:48 PM PDT
by
ExpatGator
(Extending logic since 1961.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
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posted on
09/02/2009 7:16:59 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Dubya
mcclatchy = moveon liberalism
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posted on
09/02/2009 7:23:13 PM PDT
by
Rosemont
To: Dubya
What kind of “expertise” would make a person more capable of understanding that pamphlet than you or I?
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posted on
09/02/2009 7:26:36 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: Dubya
The experts (at least in the excerpt) didn’t deny it was a death book. They said ‘it’s a reasonable attempt to help veterans plan for end of their lives.’
We know there are a bunch of experts in the Obama admin that believe euthanasia in all its forms is a real, reasonable alternative that is also cost effective.
I mean Rahm’s brother Zeke said that damn hippocratic oath really is a huge problem dealing with the healthcare situation.
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posted on
09/02/2009 7:44:10 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Dubya
McClatchy should be out of business soon. The geniuses leveraged-up and went on a newspaper buying spree just before the bottom fell out of the business and the economy. Them “journalists” is smart....
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posted on
09/02/2009 7:56:56 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Love my country. Hate my government./Van Jones is an asshole. He said so himself.)
To: Dubya
The Democrats are masters of creating “experts” out of whole cloth.
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posted on
09/02/2009 7:58:52 PM PDT
by
Maelstorm
(Party like it is 1776)
To: Dubya
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posted on
09/02/2009 8:00:38 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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