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Posted on 11/12/2011 1:54:15 PM PST by wagglebee
In a recent article appearing in the British publication the Daily Mail, there was a well documented case where the once highly touted “safeguard”–that only competent people currently asking for death will be killed–was willfully abandoned. A 64-year-old woman with severe dementia who was euthanized in the Netherlands–even though she was no longer competent.
The article [www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059444/Senile-64-year-old-Dutch-woman-euthanised-longer-able-express-wish-die.html?ito=feeds-newsxml] reported,
“The unnamed woman was a long-term supporter of the controversial practice and had made a written statement when she was still well, saying how she wished to die. But the pensioner, who died in March, had been unable to reiterate her instructions as the disease progressed, Volkskrant reported.”
The Daily Mail reported that this practice of killing patients with dementia is on the rise, and is being documented. “A report released earlier this year revealed a total of 21 patients with early-stage dementia, including Alzheimer’s died by lethal injection in Holland in 2010. This is the first time dementia sufferers have been included in the country’s euthanasia statistics.”
Even so, does this pose a threat to those in the United States? After all, assisting suicide is currently legal in only two states–-Oregon and Washington–and may have some legal basis in the state of Montana, due to a 2010 court decision.
However while assisting suicide remains illegal in nearly every jurisdiction in the United States, those who tirelessly promote doctor-prescribed death are on the offensive in New England.
There is a current effort under way in Massachusetts to obtain 70,000 signatures of registered voters before a petition to legalize it can be presented to the legislature. If they get this far, lawmakers could either adopt it as a law or let voters decide send it to a referendum vote in the November 2012 general election.
The other major effort is in Vermont. Thanks to an outpouring of opposition, a bill to legalize doctor-prescribed death was not taken up in 2011, but could gain traction once the 2012 legislative session begins.
So what could happen next if two New England states were to join Oregon and Washington State? The more states that adopt these dangerous laws, the greater is the risk of other states removing protection from vulnerable populations.
Most would be shocked to learn that in the U.S., legalizing assisting suicide can legally mean legalizing nonvoluntary euthanasia. While Compassion and Choices, the group promoting assisted suicide laws in the states, claims to only seek to allow doctor-prescribed death for the competent, such a limitation is often legally impossible.
But state courts have ruled time and again that if competent people have a right, the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment requires that incompetent people be “given” the same “right.”
And it should be noted that in the Netherlands, legalizing voluntary assisted suicide for those with terminal illness has spread to include nonvoluntaryeuthanasia for many who have no terminal illnesses. A 2009 article from the Daily Mail documented that, “Cases of [Dutch] euthanasia in the country have increased from 1,626 in 2003 to 2,331 in 2008.
It is also alleged that there have been thousands of cases of involuntary euthanasia and dozens of killings of disabled newborns.” [www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234295/Now-Dutch-turn-legalised-mercy-killing.html#ixzz1dJczqGst].This has meant that the problems for which death in now the legal “solution” include such things as mental illness, permanent disability, and even simple old age.
This cautionary tale being told in the Netherlands adds to mounting evidence that once human beings are regarded as disposable in some, initially carefully circumscribed circumstances, those circumstances will steadily expand. “When you put a price on human life, the price goes down.” The threat of this happening in the United States might not be as far off as one might think.
The thread is as imminent as it has ever been.
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My father-in-law was overdosed on morphine when his cancer was too advanced to treat. He had been alert and comfortable. We were going to take him home to die. We didn't get the chance, and I will regret forever, leaving him alone to get dinner. When I returned he was gone.
Ironic that the most repugnant atrocities of the Nazi regime are the very practices most likely to be adopted by the enlightened eurotrash in these latter days of western civilization. The Nazis appear to have won the war after all.
Does this include politicians?
Please try to let go of your regret. He didn't die alone; he was escorted by angels.
“... I will regret forever, leaving him alone to get dinner”.
Please don’t do that to yourself. You didn’t know. You left for a brief time to have dinner. I didn’t know your Dad but I am absolutely positive he wouldn’t want you to feel that type of regret.
Children with Downs are killed before birth; with pressure put onto the pregnant mothers as we’ve seen lately.
Now early stage dementia patients are being killed. And of course those with terminal illnesses or even just chronic illness.
What’s next?
I’m sorry to hear that, WestwardHo. You did nothing wrong, you’re a witness for what’s happening, and your experience is now a warning for all of us.
It only presents a threat to the old and handicapped...and the politically incorrect. Euthanisa is another word for global progress and it’s what anyone who loves the earth must support.
I hope you recognize scarsim!
They have convinced themselves they are performing a mercy to patient and family by speeding the process.
In truth, they are ripping apart the ties that bind before the family has time to do that severing themselves.
Another way to destroy the family, exactly.
Have no fear, the entire nation is undergoing the slow civilizational euthanasia that is Muslim Immigration.
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