Posted on 01/10/2017 8:20:05 AM PST by Olog-hai
The head of the Congressional committee that oversees District of Columbia affairs says he’ll block a city bill that would allow terminally ill patients to end their own lives with a doctor’s help.
Media outlets report that Rep. Jason Chaffetz told reporters Monday that he fundamentally disagrees with the “Death with Dignity” bill, which Mayor Muriel Bowser signed last month. It would allow patients with six months or less to live to request lethal medication from their doctors. …
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The Party and culture of death marches on. They will not be satisfied until INVOLUNTARY termination is instituted for the “less desirables.” After all, they consider mankind to be a blight on this planet.
I don’t see the problem with this. If I have six months of pain ahead of me, I’d rather a doctor put me to sleep.
Hypothetically speaking, if Democrats hadn’t helped to murder 58,586,256 unborn children since Roe v. Wade, then Hillary probably would have won election.
Insights welcome.
don’t block the bill, just have written in it’s mandatory that each person considering taking their life (with help of doctor/someone else) needs to have read and explained to them spiritual ramifications in all religions including atheism.
Then they will be making an informed decision should they choose to go ahead with ending their life.
we cannot stop a person, just inform them of what they are doing and let them decide.
Same should go for abortion and transgender changes etc.
All choices are spiritual, all people have a spiritual nature, all should be informed of spiritual consequences, but allowed to make their own choice afterwards.
Trump could bring this up in things - He is not necessarily for a certain religion, just the fact all people have a spiritual nature whatever their belief system is (even those who think they do not have one, have one)
If the left wants it, through government as they always do, it is bad; and it is always a slippery slope towards other government-instituted depravity.
And no, I would stick with pain management. There is no right to suicide.
We cannot stop a person from doing something evil?
Just another arrogant Congressman messing with local rule.
what of the people who were told, or loved ones told, their was no hope pull the plug, only to have them come out of it.
What if doctors are wrong about supposed 6 months of pain?
doctors are human/imperfect. What human can rightly know these matters? Believing them could be believing and buying into a lie.
God is God/He can do anything, even raise people from the dead.
are you saying you trust a doctor over checking in with God and trusting God?
we can say things and yes try to stop a person doing evil, but a person trying to kill themselves or have some one help them kill themselves is allowed to make their own choice. Each person answers to God for their choices. It’s not a joint judgement session with your friends or doctors and God. Each person makes their final choices in any matter any day of the week.
Those assisting in doctor assisted death are assisting in evil for sure.
Big Government can pass whatever laws it wants. None of them will stop me should I decide to end my life because of severe illness, disease, or trauma.
This is the Constitution's District Clause. Congress can pass run D.C. as it wants, except as limited by other Constitutional provisions. D.C. has no right to home rule. It is a benefit Congress has given to the District and Congress may make an exception to it whenever it wants. The Constitution makes D.C. a ward of Congress.
I think that’s a key point.
On a spiritual level, I think suicide is probably a terrible mistake.
On behalf of loved ones, I think suicide is very often a tragic mistake.
But if someone wants to kill themself they will. It’s really not that hard.
But having the government involved is bad. Very bad. I oppose any law which allows the government to get involved in killing people who have “lived too long”. It’s a terrible slippery slope.
I say: keep suicide illegal, and be prepared for people to go ahead and do it themselves as they have always done.
DC doesn’t have local rule. It’s unique in that respect. Notwithstanding, when local rule turns aberrant, that’ll seep upwards and outwards.
It’s not big government that wants to stop, but to help, in this respect.
Not all of our days are going to be good ones.
Some of them are going to be awful.
We can choose to end our lives anytime we want. But there are consequences to that decision.
And if we rope someone else into such a decision, then those consequences may well extend to that person too.
I think another thing worth considering is do we learn from pain and suffering?
Does our spirit become stronger by way of pain and suffering?
What if God intended a specific amount and type of pain and suffering in each of our lives individually, and we simply walk away from that rather than endure?
On the flip side, I have seen euthanasia be of great benefit to a suffering dog. He was going to die, soon, and it was going to be hard. In fact, it was already hard even including the euthanizing that did occur.
Is it possible that such a thing could also benefit people in a similar way? Yes, I think so. But the difference may be found in the spirit.
I’m not sure. I don’t know what the answer on this is. Tough subject.
But having the government involved is bad. Very bad.
In at least some cases, the only thing needed from Big Government is to get out of the way.
My mother had Alzheimer's. She could barely speak. She could not walk, feed herself, or control bodily functions. That is not living. That is waiting around to die & suffering in the meantime.
She would have opted for assisted suicide. I know because she told me decades before she died she did not want to be in such a situation, having seen it countless times before as a nurse.
My plans are made. My loved ones are well aware.
We are mocked with the "slippery slope" analysis of most of the social endeavors of the left. Death sponsored by government is not dignity. I believe it was Obama who let it slip that our senior citizens should just take a pill.For all intents and purposes "death panels" are on the horizon as government resources are finite as our population ages. Government is becoming god. Democrats are the party of death.
No doubt. We’ve unarguably murdered many “Hitlers” and many “John the Prophets” in the interval since Roe. Who would win out is hard to say.
But I can tell you that we have no idea what continued abortion restrictions would have meant. Perhaps all states would have ultimately legalized abortion to some degree, like no-fault divorce has spread without a court decree. Perhaps unwanted children would have proliferated to such a degree in unchecked squalor that our society wouldn’t even exist today to have elections at all. Or perhaps continued morality expressed in the laws restricting abortion would have ameliorated the life of poor and blacks, changing the landscape of the electorate in unseen ways.
“Death with dignity” is just another example of liberals messing with the language to make euthanazia, suicide and murder seem acceptable.
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