Posted on 11/16/2019 1:47:17 PM PST by Morgana
Talk about missing the forest for the trees!
The Ohio Nurses Association [ONA], a union with 11,000 members, has endorsed legalizing assisted suicide. From the Cincinnati Enquirer story:
ONA President Deborah Arms said the proposal recommends “educating the public about medical aid in dying, supporting legislation to protect the rights of dying patients to control the circumstances and conditions of their death and providing resources and education to nurses about the nurse’s role in caring for patients regarding MAID [Medical Assistance in Dying] or any form of treatment limitation.”
Meanwhile, in other news: Ohio is in the midst of a suicide crisis, with such deaths increasing by 45 percent since 2007. From the Ohio Department of Health press release:
In Ohio, five people die by suicide every day, and one youth dies by suicide every 33 hours, according to a new report released by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). In 2018, there were 1,836 suicides in Ohio and the highest suicide rate – the number of suicide deaths per 100,000 population – was among adults 45-64 years old. Males are disproportionately burdened by suicide across the lifespan, and their suicide rate is nearly four times the rate among females.
“One of the goals of my RecoveryOhio initiative is to address mental illness and other issues that contribute to suicide,” said Ohio Governor Mike DeWine. “If you know someone is struggling, you may be able to help save someone’s life by recognizing the warning signs and steps to take.”
“Suicide in Ohio and nationally is a growing public health epidemic, particularly among young people,” said ODH Director Amy Acton, MD, MPH. “Suicide is the leading cause of death among Ohioans ages 10‐14 and the second leading cause of death among Ohioans ages 15‐34.”
Suicide contagion is real. Thus, when a nursing association supports some suicides — because that is what the ONA did despite the use of the euphemistic term, MAID — when it gave its moral imprimatur to doctors helping people kill themselves, that makes the overall job of suicide prevention much more difficult. After all, nurses are telling us that suicide can be peachy keen and a proper response to suffering.
Shame on the ONA. They have abdicated their nurses’ calling.
MFA will pay for assisted suicide when it becomes too costly to keep you alive.
Its a one time cost to the government.
Do no harm, unless ya really wanna.
Oh goodie!! A nurses’ union is pushing their membership, to violate their Hippocratic Oath! I believe the union silently believes that taking care of those who can still “contribute to the State”, are more worthy of life-keeping care, than those that have “lived beyond usefulness to the Stat”!
Euthanasia, abortion, and the loss of the sanctity of human life scares me more than any long term trend I see. When human life is no longer treated as sacred, there is no end to the heinous crimes sane people can rationalize themselves into committing.
Nurses are militant leftists. They make the teachers unions seem almost reasonable.
Make that nurses unions
Mercynarries with nary mercy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightingale_Pledge
I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly to pass my life in purity and to practise my profession faithfully.
I shall abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and shall not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug.
I shall do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling.
I shall be loyal to my work and devoted towards the welfare of those committed to my care.
I'll leave the judging up to God.
Only medicine i want to have on hand is for ER emergency type issues. Other than that hopsitals are death traps and places that grossly overcharge and bankrupt you.
Look up iatrogenic deaths, more than 200,000 by docs and nurses a year. Tell me guns are more lethal.
::I will welcome God’s embrace at the hands of these brave nurses::
Why wait? Just get it over with
Brave nurses; snort
Death panels. Well paid eugenicists puppets. Paging Jack Kevorkian.
Disgustingly demonic, especially by nurses.
I agree.
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