Posted on 08/24/2009 10:57:19 AM PDT by nmh
The Wall Street Journal just published a shocking editorial written by a respected University President, confirming the Obama Administration is now using VA hospitals to order doctors to pressure all military veterans to sign "pull the plug" do-not-resuscitate orders, hastening their premature deaths through mandatory "end of life" counseling.
President Jim Towey of Saint Vincent's College, founder of the non-profit "Aging With Dignity" and former White House Director of faith based initiatives, wrote a blistering expose entitled "The Death Book For Veterans," revealing President Obama's new Veterans Administration (VA) directive, presumably signed by VA Secretary, General (ret.) Eric Shinseki, which mandates all veterans' primary care physicians must graphically discuss "end of life planning" with all VA patients (not merely those nearing death), and must refer them to "Your Life, Your Choices," a book that openly encourages Euthanasia and was written with guidance from the group formerly known as the Hemlock Society. That same pro-suicide group now boasts on their web-site of directly leading the charge to ensure "end of life counseling" is mandated in the Obamacare bill, HR 3200.
On page 21 of the Shinseki-mandated Veteran's Euthanasia book, all military veterans are encouraged to complete a checklist of various scenarios, to decide whether their own life would be "not worth living." For example, the booklet asks veterans 7 questions pressuring veterans to sign a "living will" that authorizes doctors to terminate your life, if you are:
1) Living in a nursing home?
2) Being in a wheelchair?
3) Not able to "shake the blues?"
4) Ever heard anyone say, "If I'm a vegetable, pull the plug?"
5) No longer able to contribute to your family's well-being?
6) Are you a severe financial burden to your family?
7) Do you cause severe emotional burden for your family?
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
But instead the Hemlock Society booklet is now MANDATED for doctor referral to all patients in all VA hospitals, heaping more evidence upon the growing list of proofs that the Obama Administration is LYING TO THE PUBLIC by denying their health care plan pushes Euthanasia on the elderly. They already do it today. Just imagine if ALL hospitals become government-run like the VA.
I posted my e-mail. Details are at the Human Events link. Veterans, Ijust want you to know, we love you and appreciate you. This is NOT what we want for all you have done to keep out country safe and free.
Here is the pdf for the “death book”:
http://www.rhlp.org/pubs/Your_life_your_choices.pdf
This is horrendous!
I seem to recall that when Obama was campaigning, he complained about the medical care our veterans were receiving at Walter Reed. Bush was doing it wrong, apparently. I guess Obama’s plan is to just kill those boys off rather than mess around with that expensive “medicine” stuff.
Here’s a decent video summary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ91iIyLiE4
Bad link
It’s not only veterans. My 87-year-old mom was given a 10% chance to live three weeks ago and beat the odds. She was transported to a nursing home and is now back in the hospital. She’s very weak, but has her full faculties and wants to get better. When she was admitted to the hospital again yesterday, the didn’t do squat for her even though she’s in congestive heart failure. My brother went to see her and got very angry. They put her in there to die. He set about this morning to set them straight. We’ll see if they care. It’s Obamacare a little early.
Which one?
The PDF?
If that is the one it is on the Human Events site to click on as a PDF.
My mom has literally become a cripple over night. She's uncharacteristically depressed. My Dad has the beginnings of Alzheimer's. I fear for the future of the elderly - vets and no vets.
This has been given some pretty good coverage on Fox and the talk radio shows(and FR) but one thing we are not discussing that you have brought up is the DNR orders. This is just so cold and calculating it is beyond belief. Remember a few years ago, the reports that so many more soldiers were being given a second chance at life after injuries in battle because of the advancement in battlefield medicine? To normal people, this is wonderful news that so many US soldier’s lives are being saved...but to the Statist(marxist)..this is not good. The Statist(marxist) wants that money to be going to statist designs..not our military. This is the reason for the sudden push...the Obama government is getting tired of paying to save our soldier’s lives.
It is evil..plain and simple. Now they will encourage them all to sign these DNR orders and they will all die on the battlefield(saving Obama money that he can redistribute to ACORN, unions, various other leftist green organizations and the DNC machine.)Thanks for keeping this latest Obama/democrat/marxist evil front and center.
WE HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTING BACK AT THE TEA PARTIES AND TOWNHALLS!!
Thanks
I believe the White House physician slot is still open.
Anyone know where we can find Doctor Kevorkian?
If so, ask him to call 202-666-RAHM.
I will be fighting this evil and I know you and others will too.
Don’t give up!
Spread it!
“Oh I wonder, wonder who wrote the book of death,
who wrote the book of death?”
Why, it was ZERO and friends.
Euthanasists?
Another great tidbit from the talk: He and his wife had recently had a son who they named John Paul ... Towey!
One last one, from the short article, about Mother Teresa being asked at the end of her life, after she’d been working fifty years with the poorest of the poor whether she got discouraged: ”Didn’t you get discouraged Mother?” she was asked. Mother Teresa responds, “No, God doesn’t call me to be successful; God calls me to be faithful.”
He's been kissing up to our enemies and dissing our allies - I'm becoming more convinced he's a mole put in the WH to achieve a bloodless victory for islam.
Socialism could be seen just one means to that end, which may explain his marxism, imo.
ping to #16.
My mom went thought a huge depressive bout three weeks when we thought she was going to die. She didn’t want to die, but finally made peace with it and got mad when she woke up the next morning because she was still in pain. Now that she’s worked through all that emotionally, she wants to live. I hope that your mom has the chance to do the same. I think that the realization that you’re at the end of your life and physically, it’s probably never going to get better, is devastating. I wish your parents well!
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