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New Zealand Okays Euthanasia for COVID Patients
The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 12/20/21 | Simon Caldwell

Posted on 12/23/2021 7:02:23 PM PST by marshmallow

Patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 can die by euthanasia if doctors decide they might not survive, the New Zealand government has declared.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that a right to a lethal injection under a new euthanasia law could extend to patients who were either dying from the coronavirus or suffering unbearably from its consequences.

In response to a request for clarity on a euthanasia law which came into force last month, the government declared that “in some circumstances a person with COVID-19 may be eligible for assisted dying”.

The admission that COVID patients were eligible for a lethal jab came after Henoch Kloosterboer, editor of the anti-euthanasia The Defender website, made a request under the Official Information Act – the New Zealand equivalent to the 2000 Freedom of Information Act.

He said the policy left “the door wide open for abuse” of elderly and vulnerable patients – especially if the country’s health service came under pressure from a COVID surge.

He said: “It would not be hard to envisage a situation in which a speedy and sizeable rise in COVID-19 hospitalisations could result in pressure to utilise euthanasia and assisted suicide as tools to resolve such a serious crisis.”

The euthanasia law, he added, “has now made the COVID-19 pandemic potentially even more dangerous for the people of Aotearoa New Zealand”.

(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; euthanasia; hospitalization; newzealand
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1 posted on 12/23/2021 7:02:23 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Well, when Xi says so, whatcha gonna do except do it?


2 posted on 12/23/2021 7:03:36 PM PST by OKSooner (All thinking people should read "The Real Anthony Fauci" by RFK Jr, and boycott Kroger too.)
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3 posted on 12/23/2021 7:05:45 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

She looks good in brown.


4 posted on 12/23/2021 7:11:51 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: marshmallow

Saw the title and really hoped it was from the Babylon Bee.

I’m beginning to think Sauron really does live in New Zealand.


5 posted on 12/23/2021 7:12:42 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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To: marshmallow

But do they have to present proof of vaccination first?


6 posted on 12/23/2021 7:18:44 PM PST by cdcdawg (The shots don't work. I will be putting your guns and pickups in my barn after you die. )
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To: cdcdawg

Next week New Zealand will approve euthanasia for tobacco smokers.


7 posted on 12/23/2021 7:23:03 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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To: marshmallow

New Zealand trying to out-Hitler Adolf Hitler.


8 posted on 12/23/2021 7:29:26 PM PST by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: BenLurkin

Adern is definitely weird:

21 Dec: Tweet: by SpewNZ
VIDEO: 21secs:
(NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Adern)
1st dose = kindergarten
2nd dose = primary school
3rd dose= high school
https://twitter.com/NzStew/status/1473155584119566341

like New Zealand, Australia Govt has been debating/passing euthanasia legislation throughout the plandemic. the FakeNewsMSM cheers them on.

if I ask people isn’t it obscene to be pursuing euthanasia laws during a “pandemic” that has almost entirely killed the elderly and/or isolated them from their families, they look at me as if to say “what do you mean?”

pity the old folks.


9 posted on 12/23/2021 7:35:53 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: cdcdawg

as in Germany?

26 Nov: Spectator UK: German euthanasia clinics refusing unvaccinated customers
Irony has been declared many times in this pandemic but now, from Covid-riddled Germany comes the final proof: you can’t kill yourself now unless you’ve been vaccinated. As European countries battle to limit the spread of the virus, Verein Sterbehilfe – the German Euthanasia Association – has issued a new directive, declaring it will now only help those who have been vaccinated or recovered from the disease. In a statement, the association said:

“Euthanasia and the preparatory examination of the voluntary responsibility of our members willing to die require human closeness. Human closeness, however, is a prerequisite and breeding ground for coronavirus transmission. As of today, the 2G rule applies in our association, supplemented by situation-related measures, such as quick tests before encounters in closed rooms.”

‘Close encounters in closed rooms’ – what a fabulous German euphemism for assisted suicide. The term ‘2G’ meanwhile refers to a system which only allows free movement for leisure activities for the geimpft oder genese— ‘vaccinated or recovered.’...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/german-euthanasia-clinics-refusing-unvaccinated-customers


10 posted on 12/23/2021 7:41:09 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

7. There has been a massive increase in the use of “unlawful” DNRs. Watchdogs and government agencies have reported huge increases in the use of Do Not Resuscitate Orders (DNRs) over the last twenty months.

In the US, hospitals considered “universal DNRs” for any patient who tested positive for Covid, and whistleblowing nurses have admitted the DNR system was abused in New York.

In the UK there was an “unprecdented” rise in “illegal” DNRs for disabled people, GP surgeries sent out letters to non-terminal patients recommending they sign DNR orders, whilst other doctors signed “blanket DNRs” for entire nursing homes.

https://off-guardian.org/2021/09/22/30-facts-you-need-to-know-your-covid-cribsheet/


11 posted on 12/23/2021 7:42:34 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: marshmallow

If doctors decide they might not survive,

Aka

The
Final
Solution.

Bet this gives fauci a woody.


12 posted on 12/23/2021 7:43:03 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: MAGAthon

It’s what made me think of it. Vaccine proof in order to kill yourself; neoliberalism is insane.


13 posted on 12/23/2021 7:46:41 PM PST by cdcdawg (The shots don't work. I will be putting your guns and pickups in my barn after you die. )
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To: marshmallow
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.

Time to build a new huge pyramid in Oceania for Ministry of Health which concerns itself with euthanasia.

14 posted on 12/23/2021 7:47:17 PM PST by KarlInOhio (I stand behind Alec Baldwin. It is far too dangerous to stand in front of him.)
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To: marshmallow

We do this in the USA. It’s called the Remdesiver protocol


15 posted on 12/23/2021 7:48:09 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: TigersEye

Ghouls. Just whom do they worship?


16 posted on 12/23/2021 7:54:18 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Funny how Trump survived treatment with it:

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/8-drugs-trump-has-been-given-for-his-covid-19-treatment.html


17 posted on 12/23/2021 7:55:27 PM PST by CatHerd (And we are are on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love - William Blake)
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To: TigersEye

“Saw the title and really hoped it was from the Babylon Bee.”

That is exactly what my first thought was. This is incredible.


18 posted on 12/23/2021 8:00:35 PM PST by Parley Baer (go trump )
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To: marshmallow

“if doctors decide they might not survive”

*Might not* survive. Wow.

At least they are calling it “euthanasia” instead of “assisted suicide”.

And we all know what euthanasia really is.

As for “ assisted suicide” — is it really suicide if assisted? And why do we think it’s okay to “assist” it?


19 posted on 12/23/2021 8:02:33 PM PST by CatHerd (And we are are on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love - William Blake)
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To: marshmallow

So; why would anyone willingly enter a hospital if they had “The Virus”? Asking for a friend.


20 posted on 12/23/2021 8:07:32 PM PST by 55Ford
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