The death cult is lengthening its stride in the US. A number of states have embraced medically assisted suicide under the pretense of compassion. Initially for those with chronic pain, but increasingly for people who represent cultural or political pain.
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That’s the slippery slope. Once you convince your population that dying is a solution to what ails you, the Government – especially one run by depopulation zealots – will encourage it indirectly through policy or by direct action. Compassion for the chronically ill evolves, in some cases, rapidly into a political solution for poverty and homelessness, mental health, the old or infirm, autism, strained public health budgets, and even boisterous political opponents.
Doubters are welcome, but we have receipts. I’ve been sharing the death cult’s mission creep and reported on bioethicists publishing trial balloons meant to ground future policy. Hawaii shortened the waiting period to five days. Canada has suggested letting poor people kill themselves (with the help of a government doctor). Oregon has opened medical dying to everyone.
In the Netherlands, they’ve allowed the practice for (at least) two decades. Professor Theo Boer, originally an advocate for the practice, has studied it at length and arrived at a conclusion. “[I]t is impossible to police the euthanasia law.”
Boer told the Committee that “loneliness and meaningless are constituent reasons for asking for euthanasia.” Boer gave an example of how the law could not be upheld:
He cited a Dutch case where there was a question over the legitimacy of a signature requesting euthanasia, and from which an ethics committee had to step back, because it did not hold criminal investigatory powers.
‘When the doctor was asked ‘are you sure that this signature is the signature of the patient,’ the doctor said ‘I was told that it was.’’
‘So, in the end, we backed off,’ Prof Boer said.
Boer commented on the “silent pressure” of euthanasia:
Once you have a law… it is absolutely impossible to put a police officer in every hospital room or in every bedroom… and look [for] some silent pressure.
That is impossible, because that will infringe very much on the privacy of their patient-doctor relationship so there is no solution.
Assuming the police officer is not there to aid and abet the pressure. And so you see the problem.
‘The legalisation of euthanasia has done much more than just providing some citizens the liberty to take a way out,’ he said.
It has created death as a remedy against ‘unbearable suffering,’ he said, and moved society from the presumption of ‘not killing.’
Boer’s criticism of euthanasia is based on what he has seen happen: euthanasia has quadrupled in twenty years and in some regions of the Netherlands, 15 percent to 20 percent of the people are dying by euthanasia.
People who are young and able-bodied. They are more than capable of being productive if they can get help and find a way through their current circumstances (that includes surviving the mental health mill of public education). A road that is lengthy and difficult. In states with socialized medicine, it is expensive, where they have made it easier to get a shot and go to sleep, and everyone’s problems go away. A relationship where it is unclear whether the soon-to-be deceased was encouraged or pressured, convinced, that euthanasia was the best or only option.
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It is impossible to police, even if you wanted it and could get around existing privacy laws.
The only cure is not to let it get there from here, but everywhere medically assisted suicide is approved, we find the slippery slope. The pool or eligibility expands, as do the reasons for allowing it.
People in chronic pain or with terminal illnesses are being used as a crutch to expand a policy that will end in the deaths of thousands of capable people (if not more) who have been convinced that death is a better answer.
Better for whom?
HT | Lifesite News
