"This person suffering from hereditary
defects costs the people 60,000
Reichmarks during his lifetime. People,
that is your money. Read 'New People'."
Posted on 09/19/2006 4:16:39 PM PDT by wagglebee
TORONTO, September 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At an international meeting of euthanasia and assisted suicide organizations held in Toronto September 1-9, spokesmen from the US-based group, Compassion and Choices, admitted that their Client Support Program is an active assisted suicide program. They revealed that program trains volunteers to assist their clients to kill themselves while remaining technically within the law.
Ostensibly strictly for purposes of disseminating information to people who are seeking “choices” at the end of their lives, Helen Beum the program’s director said it has 130 volunteers spanning 27 states in the US.
Program volunteers who spoke at the conference, were forthright about their involvement in assisting suicides. Though most of the clients who called only received information and counselling and went no further, they said, some who called were actively assisted to kill themselves by the program.
Beum said the Client Support Program is an active assisted suicide program that trains volunteers to “journey” with and at times assist their clients to kill themselves.
The volunteers explained that the program training is careful to skirt the law but not step over the line, doing everything possible to arrange for someone to commit suicide other than physically doing the act.
Beum admitted that the volunteers sometimes quit in frustration because they perceive that the process of helping clients to die is too restricted by the laws.
Sam Fogal, a volunteer who spoke at the conference, described how he was “passionate about hastening death,” saying he was a “minister” for 40 years and witnessed many people suffer while dying. He had been involved with his first hastened death a few weeks previous and felt that it was the “right thing to do.”
Another volunteer, Judy Schneiderman of Cincinnati promoted the idea of assisted suicide as a cost-cutting measure for health care, saying that the cost for medical technology is often a “waste of money” for patients who are close to death. Schneiderman, a retired medical sales professional, said she become a volunteer because she wants to hasten her own death and thought that her involvement was a safety net in case her suffering was unbearable.
Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of Canada’s Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, who attended the conference, told LifeSiteNews.com the Client Support Program is a “key component of Compassion and Choices’ structure”.
Compassion and Choices tries to sell themselves as a group oriented to “more choices”, not to assisted suicide per se,” said Schadenberg. “But in practice, the choice they actually give support for is suicide.”
The group that sponsored the conference, Canada’s Dying with Dignity, also has a Client Support Program that received $177,800 from the Trillium foundation. The Canadian group’s program, also called the Client Support Program, was coached by Compassion and Choices and their staff and volunteers receive the same training as their US counterparts.
Ontario’s Trillium Foundation, one of Canada’s largest philanthropic foundations, sponsors a number of groups and events including the Toronto Gay Pride Week activities, and Toronto’s annual Women’s Health Conference at which local school children are given contraceptives and attend panels on various sexual techniques.
The Toronto conference, sponsored by Dying with Dignity, Canada’s largest right to die organization, and the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, featured speakers and representatives from groups around the world, with about 220 attendees. Most organizations represented engage in a range of activities from direct client involvement to lobbying governments for legalization.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Independent Inquiry Demanded for Funding of Toronto Pro-Euthanasia Group
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/feb/03020702.html
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These people like to kill others.
Kevorkian went to the Pen for that.
Let's hope they too, recorded it for posterity's sake.
Anyone who wishes to commit suicide should be able to figure it out on their own. Its not that tough.
Was just going to ping you to this.
Notice the disgusting doublespeak of liberalism - "Death with Dignity", "Compassion and Choices", etc.
They are attracted to death because they are envious of the Author of life. They cannot create life, so they want to kill. They want to kill what God has created. That explains their "strange bedfellows" relationship with Islamofascism. The same people who like doctor assisted suicide are generally pro-abortion and pro-Palestinian Women in Black types.
Great response!
(steely)
Don't forget the nation's first abortion law's author, Dick Lamm,
also brought us the notion of a "duty to die!"
Now that he is in his 70s, I note he has yet to take his
own advice.
It is weird that the leftist death lovers also love Islamonazis. Even though they would be the first to get stoned (not the kind they like) and strung up under Sharia law.
They're mad (crimninally insane) and they cannot see reality at all. It's actually very sad.
It's true that some medical technologies are a waste of time and effort (and, yes, money), especially for a patient who is already close to death from an underlying disease. But there is no moral obligation whatsoever to employ futile, expensive technologies to prolong the dying process. Ventilators, dialysis, chemo, radiation, surgery -- there can be a point where they are truly too burdensome, and the patient has the right to say, "No more."
That is NOT the same as withdrawing "ordianry care," which includes nutrition and hydration, hygienic and comfort care, and pain management. And it is NOT the same as active euthanasia/suicide.
"...she wants to hasten her own death ...in case her suffering was unbearable."
This is the 21st century. There is no need to hasten death, and there is no need to be in unbearable pain. Self-administered liquid morphine pump for the dying is wonderful the patient can choose a little more if they want to sleep, or a little less if they are willing to bear some pain for the sake of being awake and alert (e.g. saying goodbye to loved ones, receiving the Last Rites.)
Pain management for the dying is something we really do know how to do. A wise MD, Dr. Jose Espinosa, once told me, "In all my 40 years of practicing medicine, I have never seen intractable pain. But I have seen intractable doctors and nurses."
Excellent, excellent comments, Mrs! Thank you. It is more than disingenuous to equate "heroic" measures to cure or prolong life with the pain management and life maintenance measures you describe. I wonder if they are consciously lying.
I read a book about doctor assisted suicide (I wish I could remember the title and author) in which he stated that most people who choose to kill themselves and those who promote suicide, doctor assisted or not , are not really afraid of pain. Their real motive is to remain in control, by choosing the moment of their death.
One who trusts God will let Him decide.
Oh yeah, those inconvenient, restrictive law against murder.
Isn't Cinci a German community? Maybe they miss the fatherland.
I took note that murder victims are now called "clients". Very Orwellian.
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