Posted on 06/21/2024 2:34:18 PM PDT by Morgana
Colorado Governor Gary Polis signed Senate Bill 24-068 on June 5 to expand their state assisted suicide law.
Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has expanded their law.
Senate Bill 24-068 expanded the Colorado assisted suicide law by:
allowing advanced practice registered nurses to approve and prescribe lethal poison,
reducing the waiting period from 15 days to 7 days,
allowing the doctor or advanced practice registered nurse to waive the waiting period if the person is near to death,
Adding language specifying that if any end-of-life options conflict with requirements to receive federal money, the conflicting part is inoperative and the remainder of the law will continue to operate.
The bill also added language concerning insurance companies:
Denying or altering health-care or life insurance benefits otherwise available to a covered individual with a terminal illness based on the availability of medical aid-in-dying;
or
Attempting to coerce an individual with a terminal illness to make a request for medical aid-in-dying medication.
The original version of SB 24-068 would have reduced the waiting period to 48 hours and removed the residency requirement for assisted suicide in Colorado.
Most of the states are expanding their assisted suicide laws to allow advanced practice registered nurses to participate because very few doctors participate in assisted suicide.
Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has expanded their laws.
In 2019 Oregon expanded their assisted suicide law by giving doctors the ability to waive the 15 day waiting period when a person was deemed near to death. In 2023 Oregon removed the residency requirement extending assisted suicide nationally to anyone.
In 2021 California expanded their assisted suicide law by reducing the waiting period from 15 days to 48 hours. It forced doctors who oppose assisted suicide to be complicit in the process (later struck down by the court), and it forced all medical institutions to post their policy on assisted suicide.
In 2022 Vermont expanded their assisted suicide law by removing the 48 hour waiting period, (allowing a same day death), removing the requirement that an examination be done in person, (allowing approvals by telehealth), and extended legal immunity to anyone who participates in the act.
In 2023 Vermont expanded their assisted suicide law by removing the residency requirement expanding assisted suicide nationally by allowing anyone to die by assisted suicide in Vermont.
In 2023 Washington State expanded their assisted suicide law by allowing advanced practice registered nurses to approve and prescribe lethal poison, by reducing the waiting period to 7 days, and by forcing healthcare institutions and hospices to post their assisted suicide policies.
In 2023 Hawaii expanded their assisted suicide law by reducing the waiting period from 20 days to 5 days, by allowing the waiting period to be waived if the person is near to death, and by allowing advanced practice registered nurses to approve and prescribe lethal poison.
There is currently a lawsuit by the assisted suicide lobby challenging the New Jersey state residency requirement for assisted suicide.
The goal of the assisted suicide lobby is to legalize assisted suicide in more states and to expand the scope of the assisted suicide laws in the states that have legalized assisted suicide.
It must be noted that the American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying have determined that when a person, who does not otherwise qualify for assisted suicide, decides to stop eating and drinking, that they will immediately qualify for assisted suicide based on becoming terminally ill.
Nuremberg trials anyone?
I'm not surprise you all. First they went from doctors that did abortions then nurse practitioners were allowed. What wrong? Not enough people to do the killing?
This won’t create a conflict of interest.
I know personally of nurses injecting dying patients with morphine to make them more “comfortable.” I think it is done routinely in both hospitals and nursing homes, but on the downlow.
Will they open it up to plumbers and garbage men if they can't get enough nurses?
I'm surprised that Planned Barrenhood hasn't moved into this. They really, really like killing.
Agreed. Some places call it Palliative Care. I have seen it in action personally in a State that does not allow assisted suicide or euthanasia.
Do they allow gift cards?
How long will it be before they allow a family member to make the decision for the person who will be terminated? The problem with laws like this is that the law keeps shifting from the original intent.
Soon it won’t be a personal decision, but someone else’s decision for that person of whether they live or die.
When judgment finally hits, the nation will have no one to blame but itself.
All these self-destructive behaviors reflecting The Culture of Death as the late John Paul II called it. Abortion, Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, etc. All in tandem with the approval of their other twisted behaviors, i.e., promoting the gay agenda, trans assignment surgery, etc. A society in the throes of self-destruction and applauded by its promoters. Evil to the bone, with nothing good ever coming from it. It will be more obvious as time marches on. The tragedy continues.
A good friend's father was hospitalized a few years ago with a heart attack and hooked up to machines. The attending doctor didn't think the old man would make it.
My friend, respecting Dad's wishes to not be on machines, signed a paper approving the de-machining and putting the Dad on "comfort care" which (IN GENERAL) is basically no curative care.
That was ok - that was the Dad's wishes.
The old man pulled through, but the hospital refused to put Dad back on fluids or nutrition because - you guessed it - "comfort care" IN THAT HOSPITAL and for THAT DOCTOR is effectively Terri Schaivo-style starvation and dehydration.
They said, food and water was a medical treatment and thus "curative" and AGAINST the rules of "comfort care."
My friend was stunned. And the attending and her team wouldn't budge - ”you signed the document giving consent.”
For the next few days, my friend and siblings heard from scores of nurses etc that withholding fluids was effectively "the right thing to do"....very Terri Schaivo-like. They also threw in “Dad live a good long life” and “he will never come back the way he was.”
It took a virtual miracle whereby a different doctor intervened, said the father clearly wasn't terminal, and put the old man back on nutrition and fluids.
While my friend's Dad passed away peacefully in his sleep a few weeks later, it was on the Dad’s terms.
It’s also worth noting that the siblings were split on “comfort care.” There WAS a view that it was ok for Dad to dehydrate to death. Someone even said that dehydration is painless; I hear the total opposite during the Schaivo murder.
I know many people would be OK if fluids were withheld when it is THEIR time to go. Fair enough.
But euthanasia can be made legal if you're not careful with the Fine Print or vetting the "mercy killing" mindset of the attending.
“Will they open it up to plumbers and garbage men if they can’t get enough nurses?”
An APRN is required to have at least a masters in nursing.
I’ll just toss this in...
https://www.cms.gov/blog/cms-taking-action-address-benefit-integrity-issues-related-hospice-care
CA...
https://health.ucdavis.edu/nursing/academics/NPresident-checklist-outofstate-061521.html
Don’t see a masters degree mentioned.
And where masters are required, there are always the ANP diploma mills.
There are a plethora of those apparently.
Lovely.
My experience was with my mom. She developed cancer and got the whole shooting match of surgery, radiation and Chemo. She then had basically a 5 year remission. At the end of that it came back with a vengeance over the course of another 3 years. Due to the aggressiveness it was showing, they put her on one of the most powerful chemos (carboplatinum) that they can use. That only caused her to develop “chemo brain”, a form of dementia but I think it actually caused a stroke. She was never the same again and did not even recognize my Dad. The disease kept progressing to the point that the cancer had spread to her spine, pelvis and lungs. She ended up in the hospital and they asked myself and my Dad what did we want to do. There is no cure and she was clearly dying but it was dragging itself out and causing her excruciating pain. We then got asked if we would like to do palliative care for her. the palliative doc at the hospital explained what it meant. It is euthanasia. At a certain point, they would make the case to the corporate legal counsel, who would then either green or red light the actual act. We received a phone call around midnight and they said you should come to the hospital. When we got there, she was alone in a two-bed room, unconscious. They said she had just had a morphine shot. After about an hour or so, they called corporate legal to confirm their decision. At 2 am, they came in and gave her another shot, before which, they said to say our goodbyes. I kissed her on the forehead and said I love you, Ma. I then watched for a few minutes and she stopped breathing.
“Don’t see a masters degree mentioned.”
I don’t see APRN in your link.
Start w criminal illegals. You kill a citizen we kill you back.
At present, the idea of being hooked up to machines is a ruse to get people to sign DNRs used to allow the killing of patients. I think most people fall for it.
I’ve been helping with elderly relatives in 4 hospital systems and the VA and they are all like this. I would never sign a DNR.
They found another way to lessen the workload of healthcare workers
How long before they decide when an old person become ill the only treatment available would be assisted suicide
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