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This post was written by Dan England on 4 February, 2007 (14:55) | All News, European News, Religious News

In my blog, Getting Elected Blogline, I posted many times on the non-voluntary euthanasia of Terri Schindler Schiavo by the withholding of food and water. In one post, Is The Camel’s Nose in The Tent?, I commented on the slippery slope of first physician-assisted suicide, next voluntary euthanasia and then non-voluntary euthanasia, as in Terri’s case. (You can read about Terri in the blog titled Blogs for Terri.)

Now, the slope, if possible, has become even slipper and has turned, in a horrendous direction - physician-assisted suicide for mentally ill patients.

A Swiss Federal Tribunal court decision added mental illnesses as another reason for physician-assisted suicide, with “safeguards”. The assumption is that the decision for physician-assisted suicide is voluntary.

The court said: “It must be recognized that an incurable, permanent, serious mental disorder can cause similar suffering as a physical (disorder), making life appear unbearable to the patient in the long term.”

Physician-Assisted Suicide for the Mentally Ill in Switzerland

8mm

73 posted on 02/05/2007 2:49:54 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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>> “It must be recognized that an incurable, permanent, serious mental disorder can cause similar suffering as a physical (disorder), making life appear unbearable to the patient in the long term.”

It must be recognized that lawyers cause more suffering than mental diseases ever did.

75 posted on 02/05/2007 4:51:40 AM PST by T'wit (Visitors: the good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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>> Physician-Assisted Suicide for the Mentally Ill in Switzerland

So that's where all the Nazi doctors fled to after the war -- across the Swiss border.

76 posted on 02/05/2007 4:53:28 AM PST by T'wit (Visitors: the good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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>> Hysteria continues over the latest liberal New Age religion, Global Warming.

Global warming certainly is a religion to liberals. They have SO many religions, all of them 100% intolerant of any other view. Liberals never went to Sunday School or church when they were small, so they have no feel at all for religious observance. All they can do is feel deeply, emote, and set the hounds to howling by being so batty.

81 posted on 02/05/2007 6:23:23 AM PST by T'wit (Visitors: the good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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Investigating some of these links, with interest...

This looks like a fertile reading list

83 posted on 02/05/2007 6:29:54 AM PST by T'wit (Visitors: the good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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