This one will kill ya’. No literally. I mean it.
A Newsletter for doctors in Australia reports:
More than four in 10 doctors in Australia believe people aged over 70 who are healthy but ‘tired of life’ should have access to euthanasia, a survey of 500 doctors by the pro-euthanasia group Exit International says. However, 40% do not support the move says the group’s director, Philip Nitschke.
OK. Maybe I’m crazy but who cares what doctors think about healthy people. We’re talking about people who are having a bad day and doctors say they can be euthanized? What should doctors have to say about healthy people? Nothing. Shut up. Tell us to eat more fiber and shut up.
Have the roles of doctors changed so drastically that they’ve truly become death dealers. Deities in white coats? Are they so filled with their own importance that they’ll actually consider taking on responsibility to euthanize the bored.
And once the right to die is enshrined folks, you’ll have doctors being forced to comply.
What started out years ago as an argument about the medical community keeping someone alive against their will when their bodies had failed them has now devolved into a conversation about whether doctors can kill bored people.
Folks, once life ceases to be seen as a gift from God it loses its inherent value. Much like rights, once they’re not endowed to us by our Creator, they become something that can be given and taken away.
And don’t tell me that there will be safeguards. Do you mean safeguards like Planned Parenthood consulting on abortion alternatives? Planned Parenthood performs 134 abortions for every one adoption.
Euthanasia of the bored, I’m sure will be legalized everywhere soon enough. (Yeah, I’m having a pessimistic day) Clinics will have some kind of psychologist/psychiatrist on staff to ensure that the person is of sound mind (which they’ll always be found to be in possession of) so that the clinic can avoid lawsuits. And they’ll charge you a few bucks to hook you up to the Willy Loman machine. And bye bye.
The only good news here is that no CMR readers will ever be bored. Because we rock. View us as your anti-euthanasia medicine.
September 21, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Without a spiritual life to give them meaning, people might just go for it if they're sick & lonely. And CMR gives us insights to use in living a spiritual life, so the Aussies & golden agers everywhere need to know before they snuff themselves into that blue screen of no reboot.
September 21, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Blue screen of no reboot. Love it.
September 21, 2010 at 10:41 pm
"Have the roles of doctors changed so dramatically they've become death dealers?"
I'm assuming that's rhetorical question, Matt.
As a nurse for many years, let me assure you, the answer is a unequivocal 'yes', esp if you have no/lousy insurance or you've exhausted your Medicare days. Certainly this cannot be a newsflash to people. But then every patient says, "Well, MY doc wouldn't do that." And I have to bite my tongue in order not to say, "Ya, tell that to his pt down the hall who he's busy OD with morphine." Wake up, folks.
September 21, 2010 at 11:43 pm
The resemblance between liberal doctors and Nazi ones becomes more and more striking.
Mundabor
September 22, 2010 at 1:34 am
Yes actually.
Medicine has stopped being about only curing people decades ago. Natural processes are now treated as diseases to be treated (e.g. menopause therapy) even if they have side effects (e.g. cancer). Impairing natural bodily function (e.g. sterilization) is a standard practice. Outright killing (e.g. abortion, especially late term abortion) is a virtue.
A doctor from the 1800s wouldn't recognize his profession…or want to.
September 22, 2010 at 7:47 pm
I'm not sure where I first saw this link, maybe at your site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5neAm_wT3Q&feature=player_embedded
September 22, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Its a concerted effort at population control. Everybody knows (and I am being facetious here) that there are limited resources on this planet that we sprang from as the result of a cosmic accident and are parasitically dependent upon.
The Soylent Green model of life is a move toward that state sponsored Utopia that is planned for us all.
Seriously, I think many of these doctors ARE "so filled with their own importance" as to decide what is best for the older members of our society and those who are infirm or not yet out of the womb.