Posted on 06/30/2012 12:53:44 PM PDT by wagglebee
The Canadian Medical Association Journal says that euthanasia is "therapeutic homicide" which requires extremely robust arguments to justify it. An editorial in its latest issue was commenting on recommendations made by the Dying with Dignity commission of the Quebec National Assembly. The commission released a report after two years of study. The authors wrote:
"Proponents of “dying with medical assistance” must argue that a patient’s rights invoke a corresponding medical duty to provide the means if a patient cannot, and it follows that this should be done in a safe and expert way. Hence, the act of assisting death would need to move from the context of being criminal to being part of the continuum of end-of-life care.""Removing the legal barrier to ending another’s life may ensure the self-dignity of those who wish to die, but may distress and remove the self-dignity of more people who wish to live."
The editorial also called for more dialogue and action from federal legislators. Legislative change should not come about as a result of a single decision from one province -- the recent British Columbia judgement which declared bans on assisted dying unconstitutional. They continued:
"The ethics of euthanasia are a familiar debate in Canada; one that may have been theoretical until recently, because of the tacit assumption that doctors do not kill people. In Quebec, the debate is moving from theory toward practice. Which way will legislation go? Will the rest of Canada follow? Those who care about the answers to these questions must speak up now, and with conviction." ~ Canadian Medical Association Journal, Jun 25
Except that in civilized society the taking of innocent life has ALWAYS been a crime.
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Therapeutic homicide = capital punishment.
Now the question is: Who qualifies for it? What are the criteria to qualify for it? Who has the power to decide these questions?
Obamacare will change all that. Euthanization is/will be a part of Obamacare, count on it. It’s all in the economics of socialized “healthcare.”
I completely mistook what this thread was all about... I thought "therapeutic homicide" would be all about how much better one feels if they kill someone who REALLY annoys them... Like people who use their cell phones in the theater.
Mark
All joking aside, the first thing I thought of, when I read the title of the article, was "Death Panels".
Getting people used to the idea.
But maybe there won’t be any “death panels”, just some Sergeant Schultz applying the rules.
Therapeutic murder? Well abortion has been called therapeutic abortion ( as opposed to spontaneous abortion, which is a miscarriage) so why not. Lets call all of it what it is - murder. And punish the perps appropriately.
But drop the “therapeutic.” Nobody’s healthier dead.
“Therapeutic homicide = capital punishment.”
Now the question is: Who qualifies for it? What are the criteria to qualify for it? Who has the power to decide these questions?
The Constitution allows congress to sentence capital punishment for treason.
Too bad the Constitution is not taken seriously as the controlling legal authority in the US, and Congress has become a legislative joke.
“But drop the “therapeutic.” Nobody’s healthier dead.”
However, some countries are healthier with some of their so-called “leaders” assuming room temperature.
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot come to mind.
This is the end of the slide to the bottom of the slippery slope that began with Roe v. Wade.
Expensive patients really annoy liberals, so you were more right than you realize.
Some are more concerned for the health of the state than yours or my health..or the results of death panel decisions.
It is the state that must live. (:
Therapeutic for whom, the doer or the doee?
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