Posted on 08/30/2013 3:16:41 PM PDT by NYer
It’s sackcloth and ashes time.
Belgium is really gearing up its euthanasia followed by organ harvesting regime–and apparently the transplant medical community has no moral qualms. In fact, it has become so morally ho-hum, that it was the subject of discussion at the 21st European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery held in the UK in May.
It’s all just peachy keen. From the Abstract (0-099) of “Lung Transplantation with Grafts Recovered From Euthanasia Donors:
January 2007 and December 2012, 47/350 (13.4%) patients received pulmonary grafts from controlled DCDs [donation after cardiac death], including 6 (1.7%) after euthanasia in accordance with state legislation and approval by Ethics Committee. Patients suffered from an unbearable neuromuscular (n = 3) or neuropsychiatric (n = 3) disorder with explicit wish to donate organs. Euthanasia was executed by an independent physician in a room adjacent to the operating room in the absence of the retrieval team.
Did you get that? One set of doctors killed the patient, stepped out of the room, and another set of doctors entered for the harvest.
Now, the hunt is on for mentally ill and patients with disabling conditions such as MS to become “euthanasia organ donors.”
Euthanasia donors accounted for 12.8% of all lung DCDs. Immediate post-transplant graft function and long-term outcome in recipients was excellent. More euthanasia donors are to be expected with more public awareness.
In a better world, increased public awareness would cause universal public revulsion.
I can think of nothing more dangerous than making mentally ill and despairing disabled people believe their deaths have greater value than their lives. Well one thing, perhaps: Having a society accept the idea that it can benefit at the expense of people in desperate need of care–and whose care is very expensive.
Ping!
Remember Thursday is Soylent Green Day.
How disgusting!
Truly chilling.
In the early days of the Third Reich they had a secret pilot program called Action T4, in which they sought out parents who had disabled kids, then later disabled adults, then “feebleminded” children and adults, then emotionally disturbed people, then....
Imagine if transplant technology had been as advanced in 1938.
When one doesn’t learn from history.....how soon we forget.
Really 70 to 100 year old organs?
Nothing like starting at the finishing line, what a surreal world.
Bad news for a lot of liberals if being brain dead means you get euthanized.
Coming soon to a hospital in your American town.
There’s money to be made offing those gimps!
Bad news for a lot of liberals if being brain dead means you get euthanized.
Can we start buying plane ticket to Belgium for all our liberal “friends”...
Me: Don;t worry I hear Belgium is the best place to vacation, it will be so much fun you won;t want to leave!
Liberal: Sounds exciting!
Me: Yes it is also very very relaxing as well...
In the early days of the Third Reich they had a secret pilot program called Action T4, in which they sought out parents who had disabled kids, then later disabled adults, then “feebleminded” children and adults, then emotionally disturbed people, then....
Imagine if transplant technology had been as advanced in 1938.
They already have that in China these days.....
This is the obvious, logical and inevitable result of the entire organ transplant thing, and why I have always opposed it. This is its real face. Nazism.
God will certainly seek retribution on the earthlings for these kinds of offenses.
I have often thought that myself.
T-4
Imagine how the disabled are going to be treated now. What kind of pressure will they be under to "just die already"-so they can be harvested, and their body parts given to someone "more worthy of life"?
Hideous to think about.
Which ideological group would be most likely to have political enemies declared “mentally unfit” and committed to hospitals?
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