Posted on 10/30/2020 7:12:19 PM PDT by xomething
A majority of New Zealand voters have agreed to the End of Life Choice Act coming into force, which will usher in euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Passed by Parliament in November 2019, the End of Life Choice Act will be enacted after citizens voted in favor of it through a binding referendum that took place during the general election on October 17.
Although the final tally will not be available until November 6, preliminary referendum results reveal that 65.2 percent of voters are in favor of the Act. It is unlikely that the remaining special votes will significantly change the outcome.
The End of Life Choice Act provides for euthanasia and assisted suicide to anyone over the age of 18 who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and who is likely to die within six months.
According to the legislation, a person who requests to die must be “in an advanced state of irreversible decline in physical capability” and experience “unbearable suffering that cannot be relieved in a manner that the person considers tolerable.”
People with mental illness, a disability or advanced age are not excluded from being approved, although these reasons alone are insufficient for eligibility.
There are no requirements for patients to receive palliative care before being given the lethal drugs, or is there provision for a cooling-off period.
Opponents of the legislation are concerned that vulnerable people will feel pressure to end their lives.
Family First director Mr Bob McCoskrie fears for the vulnerable. “They may come to feel euthanasia would be ‘the right thing to do;’ they’ve ‘had a good innings’ and do not want to be a ‘burden’ to their nearest and dearest,” he stated.
Many doctors, lawyers, and palliative care specialists are opposed to the legislation.
If the final results favor a “yes” vote, then the End of Life Choice Act will become law within 12 months.
Can eugenics be far behind?
Duhhhh That Sounds Logical!
New Zealand is looking uglier by the day. Another beautiful place ruined by commies.
No wonder all the libs want to move there.
Nancy Pelosi speaks....
“Why is everyone sending me an airline ticket to New Zealand? I don’t need to see the Empire State Building.”
Sooner or later this will deteriorate to
“Grandma is kind of old and sickly, her knees are giving her a hard time, let us put her out of her misery.”
Like with every liberal social idea, they come with some terrible example, like victim of brutal rape pregnancy, terribly suffering person needing medical marihuana or terribly suffering person wanting to die.
Then it results in Abortion for everyone, every time, paid by taxpayers. Marihuana for everybody. Eugenics.
Just hurry and agree to let them kill you, Pop. Every day you live you’re just wasting my inheritance. Stop being so selfish.
Hey, everybody, just keep reminding Pop about how selfish he is to want to keep living, when he knows he only has a year at the most. Put the guilt trip on him. He can only take so much pressure, and then he’ll agree to just go ahead and get out of the way. We can wear him down.
Will it be possible to nominate prominent American liberals for a wick trip to NZ?
Can we CrowdSource for the Clinton to vaca there?
Right to Die quickly turns into Duty to Die. Every single time.
Ive been telling Americans for 50 years ...It was already Socialist when I left...
Look at what they elected for their PM....and now reelected...
I am reminded of an old Stayskal Cartoon I saw maybe thirty five years ago. How timely for today.
https://i2.wp.com/www.dailycartoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/wayne-stayskal-2.jpg?w=798
Plus it’s so easy to kill yourself. Sit against a door, put a noose around your neck, tie it to the door knob and take a ton of Xanax or klonopin, which are incredibly easy to get, then pass out, fall over and die.
I was in a psych ward for a few weeks after having trouble dealing with a head injury and I was basically in a rubber room and the psychiatrist told me she could think of five ways I could kill myself, even with all the controls in place. She didn’t tell me them though :-)
Bottom line is there are a million ways and you don’t need somebody to show up to do it for you.
That's bullshit.
I've been through this with very weak, incapacitated people who didn't have the wherewithal to kill themselves.
More to the point, why should a competent adult have to go through your idiotic door knob procedure and leave a traumatic mess for the people they love?
So you admit to helping killing people. You’re a piece of garbage and don’t respond to me.
Now the question is how do we determine if the doctor murdered them or helped them die .... especially when the prime witness is always dead.
And if you are for the state killing people, you’re in the wrong place.
We value human life here.
You are disgusting and I am done with this conversation
You apparently cant read and damn sure can't dictate who I respond to.
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