[wagglebee]

Another speaker, Steve Hopcraft, the political organizer for the recent California campaign to legalize assisted suicide, said that the movement must work to ban the word “suicide” from its lexicon.

Excellent idea, because what they are now talking about is clearly MURDER!

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More proof that the Culture of Death was using Terri Schaivo as a "test run" for their macabre agenda.

[goldstategop]

Just like they did to Terri Schiavo. No wonder it sounded familiar - if only because the precedent has already been set.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[teacherwoes]

Right to Die? Let's start with those who attended the conference and see if anyone changes their mind.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"Terman also pointed to the increasing costs of keeping dementia patients alive,..."

That's what it's all about -- balancing the books for the socialist medical "care" system.

[scory]

I cannot even begin to express just how evil this agenda is.

[dfwgator]

But it's euphoric, don'cha know?

[nickcarraway]

If this is too inhumane to do on terrorists, then why is it okay for everyone else. Dehydration is not a pleasant way to go.

[Graymatter]

The distinctive stench of evil.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Call it what you like. but I've never heard of a person whose actual preference was to be dehydrated to death slowly. Those who wish to be dispatched when their physical and/or mental condition reaches a certain point, want a lethal injection or other quick and guaranteed-painless means. It's appalling to me that legislators and courts are willing to authorize death-by-dehydration, but will not authorize death-by-injection. They're willing to say that in some cases it's appropriate to make a decision to stop keeping someone alive (which I happen to agree with), but then don't have the decency to see to it that it's done in a way which eliminates the possibility of any suffering on the part of the dying person, and minimizes the anguish of relatives of friends. Death is guaranteed either way -- why pretend that there's some ethical superiority to standing by passively and ensuring that it happens slowly?

If you take a terminally ill and apparently unconscious pet to the vet, having made the decision that it's life is no longer worth living, the vet does not have the legal option to just leave the animal lying in a cage without IV hydration/nutrition and just wait a few days until it dries up and dies. So why does anyone think it's okay to do that with people?

[redgolum]

My Grandma (step actually, my Grandpa was a widower) died of Alzheimer's. She went to a nursing home when Grandpa could no longer take care of her. Grandpa drove to town every day for years to spend the day with her, until he could no longer take care of himself and had to go into the nursing home himself.

Grandpa was not a talkative man, and did not show emotion. But he showed me by standing by the only Grandma I ever knew what love was when so many would have just left her to die. When I hear so many talk of "death with dignity" and killing of those who can not contribute to society, it angers me beyond what I can say.

Life is sacred. If you make the measure of what a life is worth how "productive" someone is, then we as a society will soon face a horror that will make the genocides of the 20th century look like a schoolyard scuffle.

[backhoe]

Dear, dear God. I'm speechless. But not linkless:

To me, these are the defining issues of our times:

-Useless Eaters vs The Death Cult--

-Men(ace) in Black? SCOTUS goes Rogue...--

-Thunder on the Border-- (Minuteman Project)--

1- whose life is it, anyway? Yours, or someone else's?
2- an unaccountable Judiciary.
3- whose Country is it?

There are other vital issues, of course- but these three will determine just who we really are as a nation.

[Gondring]

The “autonomy” issue, he said, will play well in the US culture of individualism and “choice.”

Oh my! Heaven forbid we don't extinguish those outdated ideas of individualism and self-determination! Don't they all know that they are to serve the hive and their life isn't their own?!?

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[TASMANIANRED]

Agreed.

[TAdams8591]

There is an agenda to push euthanasia in the courts and through the legislature just as with other issues the left pushes ie.divorce, homosexual marriage and abortion. Anyone who doesn't understand this reality is in complete denial.