Firing of Doctor at Catholic Hospital Sets Off Fight Over Assisted Suicide Law

Crux ^ | 9/5/19 | Colleen Slevin

[marshmallow]

DENVER — After watching his mother die slowly when he stopped her medication, Neil Mahoney knew he wanted the option of ending his own life peacefully when a doctor told him in July that he had months to live after being diagnosed with cancer.

A physician was willing to help him do that under Colorado’s medically assisted suicide law, but she was fired by Centura Health, a health system affiliated with the Catholic and Adventist churches, for violating its guidelines on the issue.

The action launched a legal fight over whether the law violates the organization’s freedom of religion and left Mahoney, 64, spending his limited time and energy seeking another doctor to prescribe the life-ending drugs.

“At points it just gets so overwhelming,” said Mahoney, who is also working to settle up his taxes and figuring out what to do with his 401(k). An end-of-life celebration is one possibility for some of the money the former facility manager for a plant distributor saved for retirement.

Colorado is one of nine states that will allow terminally ill patients to seek life-ending drugs by the end of the year.

Colorado’s law, passed by voters in 2016, allows people with a prognosis of six months or less to live to request the drugs from their doctor and take when they choose.

[shanover]

My concern is not with those who wish to die and I cannot imagine their plight. What I am very concerned about is government and the health sector sanctioning the death business as they do with killing babies. One day conceivably a citizen will not have enough life points and will not be cost effective. We will also one day have very selective births by gene/DNA analysis,sex selection and any other anomaly that would not be acceptable to mother,couple,health sytem or government.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Mandatory assisted suicide.

[bboop]

So sad, the bad Catholic hospital would not let him commit suicide at their hospital. Expect more sob stories as they seek to make it easy as pie/ kind of like Europe. Next will be, of course, ‘My mom is not in her right mind; she told me she wants to die.’ “Let’s do it, you can get on with your life.”

[Wilhelm Tell]

The leftists all claim to be concerned about all of the people who commit suicide using a gun, but they sure do like it when essentially an agent of the state “assists” someone to commit suicide.