Posted on 04/14/2011 12:45:28 PM PDT by wagglebee
What an amazing man!
Right to die = Duty to die
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Excellent story! He truly is amazing!
May I not fall into the hands of those who have forsaken God in the perverse and wicked age we live in.
Similar scenario under Obamacare except you will just get a form letter in the mail with regrets and a disconnected 800 number to call.
In this country, motor neuron disease is known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Charcot’s disease.
In The Netherlands, many older people who are sick avoid the hospital because they know that if they check in, they will never check out.
He’s a beautiful young man with a beautiful family. I know that they want to have him there to love until the very end. Rotten health service!
How many times can my heart be broken. I read and feel like crying. Jesus certainly knew of what he spoke.
Right to die = Duty to die
Our left loooooooves killin’ innocent people. We will have death mills under a well funded group of lefties that defines killing yourself and others as glorious freedom.
“Motor neurone disease is a killer. But so is life,” continued Fitzmaurice. “Everybody dies. But just because you die, just because you will die at some point in the future, does that mean you should kill yourself now? For me, they were asking me to take my own life. Or to endorse euthanasia. I refused.”
How many in similar situations can't refuse? Don't have the strength, or the supportive family? This is a must read article. Note that "bioethics" actually means "let's kill helpless people".
Note to self - must get 1984 and read it.
Anybody that wants a ventilator or other seriously expensive technology to stay viable beyond the obvious expiration date that God has stamped on them should be able to have one at their own expense. Tax payers should not have to pay for it. This is especially true, IMHO, if the root cause of your underlying disease process can be attributed to poor lifestyle choices on your part. Tax payers should not be subsidizing irresponsible lifestyle choices. Furthermore, if Doctors warn you hat if you gte pregnant you will give birth to a child with massive medical complications that will result in large financial obligations and you choose to become pregnant and go forward with the birth, that’s on you, not me.
The people in Ireland already pay for their healthcare through TAXES.
This is especially true, IMHO, if the root cause of your underlying disease process can be attributed to poor lifestyle choices on your part. Tax payers should not be subsidizing irresponsible lifestyle choices.
You should call Zero and suggest this, "lifestyle police" seems to be a natural fit for death panels.
Furthermore, if Doctors warn you hat if you gte pregnant you will give birth to a child with massive medical complications that will result in large financial obligations and you choose to become pregnant and go forward with the birth, that’s on you, not me.
Wow, it's not often that someone who claims to be a conservative embraces every fact of the culture of death.
Were you aware that Free Republic is a PRO-LIFE forum and not some libertarian cesspool?
Good for him! His family needs and loves him. What arrogance on the part of his doctors to assume that his life is not worth living!
That is right. Older people in the Netherlands are treated like horses with broken legs.
And this government power of life and death is exactly what Obama was proposing yet again yesterday, as he touted his council of health experts that will make those decisions for us. NO WAY, BO. NO WAY.
Jim Robinson has suffered some severe health problems lately, God bless him. How is your statement here any different than promoting termination of care for someone who is disabled like Jim Robinson, just based on cost considerations? Who would you appoint to decide who does and does not deserve medical care?
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