Vermont signs euthanasia bill into law

Spero News ^ | 5/20/2013 | Martin Barillas

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Libloather]

Vermont went single-payer Commiecare™. This only speeds up the savings.

I may never understand why leftists desire to kill themselves and others by the quickest means possible.

[The Working Man]

There are times when I just have to wonder... Why are Democrats so insistent about terminating the lives of the helpless? Both those in the womb and those in the oldest amongst us?

[Conserev1]

Sign here please.

[jsanders2001]

First it will require our signatures when we are lucid and competent enough to understand what we are signing, next it will be next of kin, then the state or the IRS as guardian ad litem depending if you meet the “productivity quotient”. Incrementalism. That’s the way they roll.

[ScottinVA]

I remember well when Dick Lamm, the CO governor said what typifies his party’s stance on dying and “getting out of the way.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/29/us/gov-lamm-asserts-elderly-if-very-ill-have-duty-to-die.html

[exDemMom]

Why are Democrats so insistent about terminating the lives of the helpless? Both those in the womb and those in the oldest amongst us?

It's because they are unabashed hedonists, and helpless people get in their way. How can you have a good time if you have babies and Grandma to take care of?

[FES0844]

Follow the money.

[redgolum]

The world view fears pain, death, and all that. Better to take a pill and die than be uncomfortable.

[napscoordinator]

A friend of mine whose mother died at 94 after a cancer bout always said that she wishes her Mother didn't have to suffer the last 3 weeks. She said it was heart breaking especially the process the last few days. I am not saying that I agree with Euthanasia but it sure sucks the last six moths of people's lives in a lot of cases and the last month is the WORST.

[stuartcr]

What should one do when their spouse begs to be put out of their misery?

[GeronL]

What should one do when their spouse begs to be put out of their misery?

Obviously you throw out the hippocratic oath and bastardize the entire medical industry from one of "doing no harm" to one where we can off those we think are going to die anyway. That slippery slope to offing them without their asking for it, will happen very very quickly afterwards.

[BipolarBob]

What a Brave New World Vermont has ahead of them. Really the ITS should be in charge of such a program because of their known compassion.

/s

[BipolarBob]

ITS should be IRS.

[johniegrad]

The patient’s physicians must agree that the patient’s diagnosis is terminal and that the patient is capable of informed consent. In order to be prescribed the lethal drugs, patients must request them three times, with a 15-day period between the requests, and then self-administer.

Why self-administer? Are they admitting a moral wrong doing if the physician administered for them? And what would that wrongdoing be? There is an admission of evil here but no remedy for it. The physician still cooperates in murder, just one step removed. It is only NOT murder because the state arbitrarily decides to define it that way.

If competent, why have to ask three times separated over 15 days? Here is another admission of evil in this law. They appear to be afraid of making a mistake over competency but so what? Why be afraid of the mistake if the life has no meaning? There are now two classes of citizens here, the competent and the incompetent.

[Vermont Lt]

Palliative care is pretty good at keeping the pain as controlled as possible. I understand that is a broad statement, but for the most part it is true. I have experienced end of life care for three relative in the past year. None of them suffered to the point where I felt the need to kill them.

Of course, others mileage may vary.

The key is to take some time to understand the pain options before you get into the middle of it. No one needs to die in pain.

[Drango]

Palliative care is pretty good at keeping the pain as controlled as possible. I understand that is a broad statement, but for the most part it is true.

Yet Freeper after FReeper have shared their agonizing personal experience that palliative care didn't work for their loved ones.

[stuartcr]

I’m not talking about doctors or institutions, I mean individuals, usually the elder.

[stuartcr]

It’s probably more to avoid legal crap for the family during and after a very sensitive and personal time.