Posted on 02/23/2005 1:02:48 PM PST by Alissa
You're telling me.
Exactly. According to the new bioethics founding fathers, you're "never going to get any better". That's enough evidence right there.
And in case you took that personally my son has diabetes since age 2, and is now 14.
When you rely on the state for life from day to day, it makes you look more closely at where we are headed.
One point the euthenasia-advocates will try to bring up is that without the 'final solution', the coming generational crisis will have no solution. Their point is not entirely without merit; unless something is done the country won't be able to afford to treat the elderly decently. This is going to be a real problem, and if a solution isn't found within 10-20 years things are going to get very ugly.
Oregon has found a "solution". They did a lotto for healthcare resources. Civilized state and all.
I see it the opposite way; as I approach my dotage I would not want to live in a state that is so looie-liberal on the "right-to-die" that my relatives and friends could send me to an early deathbed by fabricating anecdotes about me with sufficient sincerity in their voices. I would even love to see wishes to be kept alive expressed in the so called living will to be made legally binding; shockingly enough it is only 'advisory' and if I say in it "don't starve me" but whoever happens into guardianship disagrees, then I can get starved anyhow. This is Mengelean. I'd actually prefer that kind of Oregon to this kind of Florida because at least the patient has to CHOOSE the suicide, it can't be foisted on him or her otherwise.
I guess we have to go through this at least once a night ;)
The abortion mill bears its own share of blame for the dwindling financial basis of Social Security, Medicare, and the like.
Well, it sounds good in theory but it is a failure in practise. They have had a sudden and unexplainable large increase in reporting the degree of pain experienced by patients since they went legal. Hmmm.
Some nephews take auntie shopping and convince her to get with the program. Auntie is elderly and somewhat confused but nephews can help! They can even provide the glass of water to take the pills with.
Because it has been done many, many times before and is being done outside of the media in most cities on a daily basis.
As does the fact that increasing FICA taxes almost certainly reduces the birthrate.
I thought I saw that the number of suicides under the Oregon law was something like 25 per year. Maybe part of the increase in pain reporting is from patients whose doctors are no longer quite as afraid to prescribe mountains of morphine when nothing else will do.
And per my liberal credo #1, the more people do a wrong thing, the less wrong it becomes.
In all fairness, I can't consider Michael a "pawn." He was able to use Terri's condition, which he may well have caused, to MANIPULATE the Judicial system into awarding him 1.7 million dollars. Now Michael is EXPLOITING the pro-euthanasia crowd and the same Judicial System into covering up an attempted murder with a REAL murder (followed by the immediate cremation of the evidence of his attempted murder) by order of the COURT. IF Michael succeeds, I'd call it not only A PERFECT MURDER, but a PERFECT COVERUP (of an attempted murder).
REAL LIFE is sometimes stranger than fiction. It would be difficult to imagine such a scenario even if you tried.
No, but nor is he the driving force here. Michael's just a two-bit thug who wants to cover up his crimes. Felos is the one who likes killing for killing's sake.
Yeah, it is fishy that hino's jihad to honor his wife's "wishes" to die waited conveniently for the insurance settlement. Hino hadn't spent even the tenth part of it on rehab before vociferously giving up. The "why is the bitch taking so long to die" guy.
I don't grok your Albatross allusion if it means Terri. How can they "let it fly away"?
Twice is a big jump. Opportunity has opened the door. These people are dying and suddenly in much greater need of help out the door, I mean more pain meds, than before.
And $oro$.
Because the Euthanasia CROWD has MORE MONEY and POWER then MICHAEL, they are the driving force. However, both parties have an equal motivation.
Agreed.
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