Washington state to allow `dignity' deaths

Yahoo-AP ^ | 03/01/2009 | RACHEL LA CORTE

[greatdefender]

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Terminally ill patients with less than six months to live will soon be able to ask their doctors to prescribe them lethal medication in Washington state.

But even though the "Death with Dignity" law takes effect Thursday, people who might seek the life-ending prescriptions could find their doctors conflicted or not willing to write them.

Many doctors are hesitant to talk publicly about where they stand on the issue, said Dr. Tom Preston, a retired cardiologist and board member of Compassion & Choices, the group that campaigned for and supports the law.

[TheBlueMax]

What a self righteous comment! Taking joy in the painful deaths of others? Just because there are some who have ethical questions concerning the “other” victims of this “victimless” crime, don't deserve to be callously branded as being uncaring.

[ncalburt]

You are too oblivious the realize the real agenda behind this law.
I know a whole hell of alot more than your do about watching people suffer.
I have worked in healthcare for 25 years.
You are a fool who falls for phony emotional propaganda peddled by the Obama crowd/ Obama media ‘s culture of death crowd.
The one thing almost all have of us has is the drive to stay alive until the bitter end.
You are to stupid to realize once the state enacts laws to promote early death the end result will be a new early death industry springs which springs into action.
You better hope a greedy relative does not use the same law in the far future to push you into a early grave.
I have seen it tried many times !

[tundrachick]

Let me warn you that the Hospice is the biggest scam of them all!

I'm sorry your hospice experience involved a less than ethical hospice. I work for a combination home health/hospice agency, and we gain no financial benefit in moving someone from home health care to hospice care. We never pressure any patient or family member to elect hospice, and our reputation in the community speaks for itself. Clients choose us; we don't have to actively recruit patients to our agency.

Please don't be so quick to judge all hospices based on that one incident.

[behzinlea]

I believe this whole “dignity death” thing is driven largely by $$$ pure and simple. In Obamaland, the elderly, sick, and those born with serious birth defects will be encouraged and pressured to snuff themselves out so the central planners of our neo-Marxist economies (including state level) can claim balance sheet victories. When the central planners don’t get enough volunteers, they’ll move to Plan B: euthanasia of the unwilling.

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[HollyB]

I understand your point, but some of these ‘die with dignity organizations’ target those who are dying. They used to send a family member who was sick (but had alot of life in him still) literature with detailed steps and methods on how to take his own life. There was alot of convincing info for those who were depressed or confused about a life long illness, giving them plenty of reasons to take their life. I think they preyed on them before their time. It was illegal in this particular state, so I contacted them and told them to never send another piece of literature again. This family member lived another 20 years.

[Tijeras_Slim]

That was a great scene. Edward G. Robinson had terminal cancer at the time, and died shortly thereafter.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Washington state to allow `dignity’ deaths

In order of who will be ‘allowed to die with dignity’:
1) terminally ill
2) elderly
3) physically disabled
4) handicapped
5) overweight
6) non-productive

[ncalburt]

I would never attack the actual health-care employees.
Actually I ve many runs in with hospice admin staff.
I refer to the Terry Schiavo case and the hospice's role in the matter as a shining example of how dangerous these entities can become .

[ktscarlett66]

Excuse me? Several members of my family have been in Hospice care over the years. They all died at home, with love and dignity, surrounded by the family members that cared for them. And Hospice made it possible for those family members to care for them in that setting. By providing the equipment, medicine and support they needed, Hospice helped them keep those family members home and out of clinical hospitals surrounded by blank walls and strangers. Even afterwards, they received support counseling and a special summer camp for the kids who’d also lost parents. Don’t tell me they do all that expecting some big donation from a middle class family who is struggling already.

[behzinlea]

The Final Solution, Washington State style.

[ncalburt]

Once you make it a LAW it can be used for any devious and evil purposes !
I have had to stop many many greedy relatives with lawyer in tow from bumping off their distance relative for there estate.
Look at the way the law allowed Terry Schaivo to be starved to death for her own good at a hospice .
Did you notice how the Dem party promoted her considered her slow death as a Victory !!!!!!
Its called the culture of death promoted by he Dem party vultures namely trial lawyers , estate lawyers, and
guardian lawyers ! Who all collect big when Granny dies quick !

[Doe Eyes]

Who all collect big when Granny dies quick !

The other side is the hospitals that soak up every penny a person has, and then releases them when they are broke.

They are in it for the money, nothing else.

[HollyB]

I have to agree with both of you even though you take different views of hospice.

Hospice took wonderful care of my father at home. But, when he became acutely ill we took him to the center. They specifically say “YES” when I asked if they would give him IV antibiotics when he arrived there, for his pneumonia. Once he got there, they would not do it. He was completely alert and spunky when he arrived, they pumped him full of drugs, he fell unconsiounce, and a week later he died. The entire week, I had to listen to hospice nurses come into the room every 3 hours and tell me about the mottling process taking place until I told them to stop it. Each day 3-5 people died daily during our stay. A man told me he didn’t understand because his daughter was given 3 years and she came to hospice for assistance and they gave her 3 weeks. She also died during the week we were there. I know my father’s time was close, but I wish I had taken him to the hospital where they would have given him antibiotics for his pneumonia. I still regret that, because the nurses lied to me. They may have made his death pain free, but I know they did not do anything at the hospice center to help him recover from pneumonia when he arrived (as they promised), and because of that, he died. .

[eleni121]

Insurance companies and the State have made it so.

Not to mention the slippery slope instigating event that promoted this: HOSPICE.

[ncalburt]

Hospices are many small operations like in HHAs and small towns and they tend to be true to actual original intend of a hospice .But there are now many large and very aggressive ones like the one that Terry Schiavo was placed in by her husband.
That hospice had board members which included the judge's wife and Mr Schiavo’s lawyer.
That is my point regarding this Wash law .
The death industry like the crowd involved in Terry Schiavo’s death will twist the intend of this law for evil purposes.

[Glenn]

Personally, I’d move to Washington to get the option should I be faced with a lingering and messy death.

[ncalburt]

Sadly, once your give up your Medicare Part A coverage and take the hospice coverage , your put in a limbo status in which your care is very limited to pain management.
You can change your mind and retrack the hospice care but to takes awhile to correct and all your care is non covered by Medicare in the limbo period.