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.
First the Babies, then the Old People, then, according to Bill Ayres: “Those who do not accept the new way of thinking (Communism) will have to be killed..”
This means YOU.
First the Babies, then the Old People, then, according to Bill Ayres: “Those who do not accept the new way of thinking (Communism) will have to be killed..”
This means YOU.
Have you ever been intubated for over 30 days?Shot full of sedatives to the point you don’t even know who you are?Taken off from being intubated only to be told your O2 is too low and to continue to live you would have to go back under? A DNR can be a good thing if you are ready for it.
Family often insists on nurses giving multiple injections and as long as its ordered by the doc,its done..I remember one family group..actually his poa and close friends. He had no family.
But they sat around his bed waiting for him to die and called us every hour to medicate him because he twitched one time..it was a party for them.
I was hospitalized recently in an intensive care unit. I agreed to the course of care which included hazardous tests and the pain killers hydromorphone and Fentanyl. Patients can also refuse such care. I did not refuse that care and I did not sign a DNR.
I also didn’t sign a DNR for a relative until the VA staff called to say he was dying. The VA staff had already started administering morphine and then hydromorphone which let him die without pain.
Was he actually in pain?
I notice that a person going in and out of consciousness who is repositioning in bed is now considered IN PAIN and bombed with drugs that slow down breathing and keep them unconscious.
I don’t know a single nurse who would take part
There are nurses and there are nurses.
I don’t think having a nursing ticket advance practice or not guarantees any particular Intellegence or moral center.
That is a narcotic that a doc has already written a script got
If by some miracle they do survive eventual withdrawal of umbilical support the great majority face a lifetime of disability to a wide range of degrees and types. A good many become little more than a body requiring outrageously expensive care with no possibility of a productive life. Yet there are miracles. Most every NICU nurse and by far the majority of affected families becomes attached to these children, and the longer they care, the stronger becomes that bond. That makes losing these children especially hard after all that labor and expense.
Technology has changed early child care to the point that humans are simply not equipped ethically, morally, emotionally, or financially to be certain of the associated decisions to sustain or withdraw support, much less killing out of "kindness." There are no optimal answers in such cases but the lost opportunity cost both to the families and society of prolonged NICU care is an outrage. Yet what may be worse is what institutionalizing these decisions may do to us ethically.
While I disparage making these choices flippantly, I am glad our Federal system allows States to experiment and learn how to deal with the many consequences of advanced medical technology justly and humanely. Some will probably be needlessly callous. Others will be happy to break the bank. But to spend an infinite amount of resources on any one case is effectively to deny the rest. Resources are finite. There are no perfect answers and the rate at which we are presented these dilemmas will only increase as technology advances.
if they allow illegals to kill people, they’ve gone too far!
Yes, this has been happening routinely for a long time, even when the patient hasn’t agreed to it. It should be illegal; instead, here they are, codifying it in law.
Yes, he was in pain. The morphine wasn’t really working anymore which is why they switched to hydromorphone. I was in agreement that pain relief was the only reasonable thing left to do. I held the POA so they consulted me on treatment.
Pretty soon you’ll be able to get a “home suicide kit” by mail.
Commierado going to restrict ccw including some parking lots. If the governor can’t kill them in the hospital he wants citizens unarmed so they can be killed on the street.
I’ve had a similar experience with a close relative. You have encapsulated the situation well.
In the Netherlands where euthanasia has been available for some time now the elderly fear going to hospitals.
It all depends on the dose. Without morphine dying people can suffer, e.g. with overwhelming breathing difficulties. That's usually the point where organs start to shut down and toxins start to build up in the extremities causing tremendous pain. Those people are indeed dying and deserve some comfort.
But assisted suicide is not about dying people. It's about relatively healthy people killing themselves to create a more "dignified" death. What they fail to realize is that death is never dignified. Might pretend it is for a TV show. But it's not, it's just premature death.
007? License to kill? Ir’s about time!
Some folks jus’ need killin.
>Will they open it up to plumbers and garbage men if they can’t get enough nurses?<
Uber drivers next.
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