…ough the details of implementation will be left to other committees, the thrust of the proposal is on reducing scrutiny for certain donor deaths. The Committee feels that in some cases, harm to donor can be traded off against other factors. The Committee gets to where it wants to be by conflating conditions which can be chronic and disabling with fatal conditions, and then blurring everything into terminal. This brings to mind what James McGaughey…
…1b7da8d http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/0700/0700ft1.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/child-dies-by-euthanasia-in-belgium-where-assistance-in-dying-is-legal/ https://theconversationproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ConversationProject-StarterKit-Pediatric-English.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/children-are-being-euthanized-in-belgium/2018/08/06/9473bac2-9988-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html?utm_term=.0310c1b7da8d Ibid. http:/…
…of consent or self-administration at the time of ingestion of the lethal drugs. If the drugs were, in some cases, administered by others without consent, no one would know. The request form constitutes a virtual blanket of legal immunity covering all participants in the process, including family members who are the most likely perpetrators. Essentially, proponents of legalizing assisted suicide have taken what is fundamentally an immunity statute…
…th benefits for many old, ill, and disabled people. Cost-cutting is in the news. Given this reality, assisted suicide takes choices away. It’s no choice when every year, doctors misdiagnose 12 million people and thousands “graduate” from their six-month hospice benefit. Ted Kennedy was told he had 2-4 months to live. He lived an extra year. John Norton of Florence testified in 2012 that when he was diagnosed with ALS, he would have used assisted s…
…quires no oversight on whether the patient was willing to take the lethal drugs. No requirement that a medical person be present to supervise the ingestion of lethal drugs. Allows a third party familiar with how the patient communicates to make the death request. Permits lethal drugs to remain in a patient’s home without securing them. Relies on the inaccurate premise that a doctor can predict death within six months. No distinction as to whether…
