What’s Wrong With PBS’s Pro-Suicide Special, ‘When My Time Comes’

The Federalist ^ | April 20, 2021 | Christopher Jacobs

[Bulwyf]

Boko haram is still kidnapping women and girls in Nigeria, take as many with you as possible. Nobody else seems to want to help there.

[algore]

https://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/catalog/catalog.html

[drSteve78]

Echo.

[Stravinsky]

The pro-euthanasia culture of death should be avoided at all costs. I have little doubt that we will adopt it here soon though. Our decline is very rapid at this point.

[T.B. Yoits]

What’s Wrong With PBS’s Pro-Suicide Special, ‘When My Time Comes’ is what's wrong with any PBS show - its audience.

...and that taxpayers are forced to fund it.

[PIF]

During the Ho’s second term - all Hail the Queen - all citizens, not in the political class, deemed past the age of useful contributions, will be euthanized voluntarily or otherwise.

[ETCM]

It’s not an easy issue. I know that when my time comes and I determine that age and ill health make my life no longer worth living, I plan to go out on my own terms, at a time of my choosing.

My father recently made such a decision. Several strokes left him in a wheelchair, his brilliant mind was greatly diminished, he required 3 days per week on dialysis and he required nearly 24/7 care. There was no joy in his life, only pain and suffering. He decided to end dialysis. He was at peace with that decision and it was his alone.

Letting the state in on such decisions is a slippery slope that will eventually take the choice completely out of our hands. Several European countries are already well down this path, and life saving medicine is reserved for those who "deserve" it, by age, position, status, etc.

[al baby]

My body my choice

[Pollard]

After my dad watched my sister die of throat cancer, he had a new outlook and believed that someone terminal should be able to end their pain and suffering. Terrible thing to watch your child wither away in agony for months.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

After my dad watched my sister die of throat cancer, he had a new outlook and believed that someone terminal should be able to end their pain and suffering.

Those of us who've seen loved ones pass away after a long illness know how painful it is for the loved ones, not to mention everyone who loves them. And there's no such thing as dying of old age - one body part or another will give out, and the ending is seldom painless or easy.

That's why I will make the decision for myself when the time comes - and that time will be while I'm still capable of deciding for myself and acting on my decision. It's none of the state's business, or anyone else's but mine. The state already makes it difficult, and I view that as an intrusion on my individual rights.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Because it is not about suicide but about murder.

If you wish to end your life that is up to you. Putting pressure on someone else to murder you is wrong.

[I want the USA back]

The left wants to force us all to pay for “euthanasia” for old Whites.

[ScottinVA]

I agree there... I’m not talking about loneliness, but about those with terminal illnesses that offer nothing on the horizon but extended suffering.

[higgmeister]

The so called “aid-in-dying” is murder.   When my time comes...   There is more to the human mind than anyone alive knows.   Even if I'm hooked up to respirators and whatnot I'll elect to live until I don't.

[higgmeister]

When afflicted with a terminal illness from which there is no hope of recovering, and the end will be agonizing, it’s certainly understandable to want to go out on one’s own terms.

I don't believe there is such a thing.   Have you ever heard the phrase, "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger?"   If the pain is unbearable, that is what will kill you.   Anything else is the way of the cheat and coward.

[higgmeister]

That's why I will make the decision for myself when the time comes - and that time will be while I'm still capable of deciding for myself and acting on my decision. It's none of the state's business, or anyone else's but mine. The state already makes it difficult, and I view that as an intrusion on my individual rights.

Please think for a minute.   Mark Twain always said he came with Halley's Comet and he will leave with Halley's Comet.   That's what he did.

President Adams and President Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

If you choose death due to all you fear, just die then.   You don't need to kill yourself, nor do you need anyone's help.

My Dad died on the day of his choosing, in the hospital of congestive heart failure.   He was sitting in his chair at home watching my infant daughter on a pallet with that enraptured look on his face and I told him, don't die on me yet.   He said he wouldn't and the next day he and my Mom dropped me at the airport for my trip back overseas.   The next day the First Sargent was at my door to tell me Dad had passed away.   Mom was able to whisper in his ear that my brother's wife had the baby and he smiled, then drifted off.

Give yourself a break.   Don't give up on life before you are even challenged.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Give yourself a break. Don't give up on life before you are even challenged.

I have no intention of doing so. I intend to live as long as possible. But none of us will live forever, and I intend to go out on my own terms and in my own house, not in some hospital bed at the discretion of some doctor.

[Chicory]

There is a difference between stopping medical treatment that is keeping one alive and inducing death.

Reams is advocating the latter.

[ScottinVA]

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, yes.. but I’m not referring to that which doesn’t kill you.

If - God forbid - you’re ever in a terminal illness situation, that bravado will give way to reality.

[higgmeister]

I say not.   We all have to take the bad with the good.   I live with my pain every day.   It's just the price for being old.