Posted on 04/20/2010 4:45:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
The latest edition of a prestigious medical journal, The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, has published a very disturbing piece of research. While the study is very small, the fact that it was done at all suggests that there might be a larger problem across the country: Euthanizing children right here in the US.
The study, of course, doesn’t talk about euthanasia. Here’s the title: “Considerations About Hastening Death Among Parents of Children Who Die of Cancer.”
I see. It’s not euthanasia, it’s hastening death. Sounds so much more, well, clinical, don’t you think?
Essentially, the researchers wanted to know, in terms of actual cases and presented possible scenarios, what parents’ attitudes were toward euthanasia when a child was terminally ill with cancer. No surprise, the more the actual case or scenario involved high levels of pain and suffering, the more likely parents were to consider euthanasia
Sorry, I meant “hastening death.”
Now, if the study only used contrived scenarios, the findings would be important, because they show, among other things, that parents are ignorant of palliative measures that can make terminally ill children comfortable in their final days.
However, among parents interviewed who literally had terminally ill children with cancer, there were several who actually discussed euthanasia for their child with their doctor, and, in three instances, where parents reported that the euthanasia was carried out.
Frightening, and even more so when you consider how small the study was.
And, it’s absolutely probable that if it‘s happening in the two hospitals covered by the study, it’s going on all over the country behind closed doors after whispered conversations.
Killing children because they are sick.
Here in these United States.
This is how things started in the Netherlands.
Let’s so all we can to make sure it doesn’t happen here.
“I give up. The world is doomed.”
We must never give up or the world WILL be doomed.
Inform everyone you know and PRAY.
no, in palliation you relieve pain, even though it might depress respiration, and that could hasten death.
This is allowed in Catholic ethics, even to the extent of “terminal sedation” where you put a person into a coma to relive the pain.
In hastening death, you adjust the dosage to kill.
The difference? I’ve had a couple patients who, once we relieved their pain, got better...
This country is deserving of the judgment God is going to pour out on it some day.
It is nice to have faith. I don’t. Humanity is doomed.
For every 1 person trying to make the world a better place, there are at least 1 million making it much much worse. It’s amazing that civilization lasted as long as it did. Extinction is long overdue.
For all we know, God changed his mind, gave up on this world, and moved to a different universe.
Nope.....we are the weak ones that give up on God. He never gives up on us!
I think that this is just the “sorting of the wheat from the chaff.” Hang in there, Soothe! We are being tested!
Militant
That is a really good point. What you describe is a dangerous attempt at palliative care.
Euthanasia is the deliberate attempt at painless killing with the objective of causing death.
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