Posted on 08/09/2017 11:53:28 AM PDT by Heartlander
Darwinist Jerry Coyne, who has recently advocated the medical killing of handicapped babies so they won’t “suffer,” has added another class of people to his kill list: people who are depressed.
In response to a doctor’s suggestion in an article that a patient who was not physically suffering but who was depressed should be offered euthanasia, Coyne writes:
My answer, as was that of another expert discussed in the piece, is “yes”, but I’d offer them antidepressants first…
Goodness gracious. Coyne is now advocating euthanasia for depressed people, and make no mistake about it: euthanasia for depression is gaining wider acceptance — the Netherlands is already euthanizing people for depression and other mental health issues. Of course he gives a passing nod to offering anti-depressants first. But if they don’t work or the patient doesn’t want them, Coyne recommends that the doctor kill the patient, if the patient wants to die.
And what if the doctor doesn’t want to kill his patient? Coyne asks:
What about doctors who are uncomfortable…helping carry out such a procedure?… My view is that if they are, they must refer the patient to a doctor who can help…
Coyne demands that doctors who do not want to kill their patients be forced to refer the suicidal patient to another doctor who is willing to do the killing.
The primary goal of psychiatric care for depression in modern times has been to prevent suicide. Doctors are trained to be alert for signs that a depressed person is planning to take his own life, and are required professionally to intervene — against the patient’s wishes if necessary — to protect the patient’s life. Now Coyne and other euthanasia advocates are demanding that doctors help depressed patients to kill themselves.
Note the chain of events: First, we normalize abortion. Then we legalize physician-assisted suicide. Then euthanasia proponents advocate medical killing of handicapped newborns. Now there is serious advocacy (it is actually practiced in some countries) to euthanize depressed people. This is what we have come to. Instead of protecting depressed people from suicide, doctors are now being asked to kill them.
If you’re not aghast, you’re not paying attention. The death cult is moving fast and gaining a lot of ground. This is not a slippery slope. This is an ice cliff.
Got suicidally depressed at 14 when my old man died. Antidepressants didn’t work.
Got better over a year or so and has too many great times to count (as well as difficult but that’s called LIFE).
Glad this guy wasn’t around then.
Would have missed a lot of beautiful things.
Like Trump’s election :)
Those of you who know me know he would have wanted to kill me after my head injury 10 years ago from falling down a flight of cement stairs.
AND he would want about 300k soldiers with head injuries dead. Instead, Trump is going to pour money into helping these poor guy and I have faith in God and the science he will provide to researchers to help these guys.
How many of you or you loved ones would he want dead?
This is seriously scary.
Just another day in the life of a National Socialist....
People who want to kill people are a bad mutation and should be killed.
And here I was about to pick out which color yellow for my star.
They would have had a field day on November 9, 2016....................
That was satire...................
Hmm... "Trump won? OMG, I'm going to kill myself!" "It's all right, you're just a little depressed. You don't have to kill yourself. We'll do it for you..." Would that have been a public service? I'm thinking about it, don't rush me, I'm thinking about it...
I’m feeling suicidal (ding-dong) Oh, someone’s at the door ... BOOM!
Slip of the tongue, I meant to say homicidal. ;-)
That would mean the GOP never loses another election. Good? I don’t think so.
They look upon it as helping the depressed achieve their goals. It’s all good. A positive, don’cha know.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely........19th century British politician Lord Acton.
Why stop there? Let’s give weapons to homicidal maniacs. Think of the numbers they could reduce the population by. Let’s give matches and fire accelerants to arsonists and set them loose in high rise buildings or on cruise ships. Let’s take everyone with at least 4 DUIs, give them a fifth of vodka, an 18 wheeler, and turn them loose near an elementary school at 3 pm. We for sure don’t have to settle for a measly one-person-at-a-time killing, when there are much better ways. /S
Eugenics.
My first thought, too. Good ol’ Margarate Sanger would be soooooo proud.
Thing is, a majority of the human race gets depressed at some point and it’s generally a temporary reaction. This guy and his Satanic false eugenics is a good reason for HOPELESSNESS. He better be smiling every day of his life.
Yep, that is Hitlery! You want to drive a leftist absolutely over the top foaming at the mouth vicious? Compare Hillary to Cersei. I do it all the time on Facebook or liberal websites and no kidding, I get hundreds of vicious replies. It seems the left are obsessive about Game of thrones and I debate them all the time how Hillary is like Cersei lol lol lol
Well that solution will thin the herd of Democrats/progressives/socialists/Communists/liberals.
I’m going into the funeral business and even though I’m a conservative, I can tell the deceased aboves that “Although I’m a conservative, I’ll be the last person to let you down”.
My philosophy of life is, “Outlive your enemies; keep better files; and piss on their graves”. Been doing all three for many decades and on Aug. 11th, I’m celebrating the 8th anniversary of my cardiac arrest death and revival. Came back for God, country, family and to piss on our enemies’ graves.
Bartender: Another couple beers please. I’ve got to fill up again. Once more into the breach!
How much of the depression,
was your old man dying,
or the way your parents treated you as a child??
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