There are many health care professionals, especially those concerned with bioethics, who are opposed to PAS due to the detrimental effects that the procedure can have with regard to vulnerable populations. This argument is known as the “slippery slope”.[10] This argument encompasses the apprehension that once PAS is initiated for the terminally ill it will progress to other vulnerable communities, namely the disabled, and may begin to be used by those who feel less worthy based on their demographic or socioeconomic status. In addition, vulnerable populations are more at risk of untimely deaths because, “patients might be subjected to PAD without their genuine consent”.[11] However, recent studies claim that the available evidence suggests that the legalization of physician-assisted suicide might actually decrease the prevalence of involuntary euthanasia.[12]
Thousands of elderly people have been killed by their own GPs without ever asking to die under Belgium’s euthanasia laws, an academic report said yesterday.
It said that around one in every 60 deaths of a patient under GP care involves someone who has not requested euthanasia.
It should take one or two “progressive” federal governments in Canader before involuntary euthanasia comes here. It’s inevitable, too many of our generation are living too long, we have a duty to our Country to allow ourselves to to sent to Heaven (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) no later than age 80.
The only question now is which well-connected PR firm will get the contract to sell this concept to increasingly gullible Canadians.
Listen, if ya can sell ’em on global warming, anything’s possible.
This year marked the 70th anniversary of VE-Day, in which Western Civilization deposed the National Socialists from power, whose killing spree which liquidated some 50 million people, and began with EUTHANASIA.
You would think that places like Belgium, Netherlands would have learned that it is decidedly uncivilized to empower your doctors to be killers. In the period 1946-48 this would have earned you a hanging.
But then each generation thinks it is so much smarter than our ‘forefathers’; when we can now conclude that this generation is equally deaf, dumb and blind; notwithstanding that they supposedly have all their faculties.
The Nazis liquidated the disabled because it ‘cost too much’ and they had to ‘clean up the gene pool’.
Today looking after the elderly ‘costs too much’; so let’s just bump off a couple of terminal old geezers who don’t know any better anyway…what could possibly go wrong?
Of course the killing never just stops at the selected group, but gradually over time encompasses a greater group of socially acceptable killing.
Like the drip drip of leaking acid, euthanasia is highly corrosive to the body politic until they rediscover that civilization has left the rails.
Just because the euthanasia advocates have dropped their Hugo Boss uniforms, doesn’t make them any less “Mengelian”.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
” It said that around one in every 60 deaths of …”
Which makes it sound like Dr’s are walking around knocking off elderly patients willy nilly, as opposed to perhaps “easing the passage of those who have zero chance of recovery.”
Look, I’m not very warm on the idea of involuntary euthanasia either, but given the ability of modern medical science to keep patients alive *long* (long, long) after they would have desired to be alive, and long after they would have passed on in the normal course of events, had massive interventions to keep them breathing and eating and etc… not been done; I have to admit that there does exist conditions where I’m not emphatically and whole heartedly against it.
The devil is in the details, I suppose, but I know enough medical personnel who are personally horrified by the ability to prolong life that they have strong worded and emphatic living wills that both curtail life extended measure and encourage the use of sufficient anesthesia that the final moments will not be some quiet hell of pain.
The less money spent from government healthcare budgets on patient care, the more there is for unionized government healthcare workers to gain in salary and benefits.
There is a distinct conflict of interest possibility in this dependent relationship.
Fred 2 said, “I know enough medical personnel who are personally horrified by the ability to prolong life that they have strong worded and emphatic living wills that both curtail life extended measure and encourage the use of sufficient anesthesia that the final moments will not be some quiet hell of pain.”
That’s their choice. Which is what the report says was denied by these doctors.
Let’s put it in numbers, Belgium population, 11M. Crude death rate, 9.8/1k. (yes I realize crude death rate isn’t a good comparative). That’s around 107k people a year. 1 in 60 would be around 1800 people a year killed without consent.
In Canada we’d have a zillion hashtags and everyone would be asking for a Royal Commission on Murdered and Missing Hospital Patients.
Yes, well there is a hell of a difference between passive NON-INTERVENTION of medical procedure, ie letting nature take it’s course, save for food and water; and having the physcian “ICE” you instead.
The people telling you that pain management doesn’t work have an AGENDA. Follow the money…
The path to abuse is vast and verdant…need your inheritance faster? Just euthanize gramps!
The thing we learn from is history, is that we have learned nothing from history.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Everyone over the age of majority should have a Personal Directive, which gives clear instructions for times when they are unable to speak for themselves.
The bottom line of mine is “Do not resuscitate”. I would rather join Jesus in eternity than be kept alive on life support, but as long as I’m still conscious, I can still serve my Lord.
In this age of organ/skin transplants, anyone with an unusual blood type should be wary that some rich recipient might want your body parts.
Euthanasia just makes it that much easier to cannibalize you.
I’m with Fred2. Living wills and personal directives right now are the best we can do to try to ensure we don’t end up with a feeding tube down our throats for a decade or so should the worst befall. I personally want the freedom to leave this mortal coil at the time of my own choosing, perhaps saving family and friends years of watching what used to be me waste away in a hospital bed.
“First, do no harm.”
“Living wills and personal directives right now are the best we can do”
I will never support suicide for the living or those near death. We get to live the good, the bad, and the ugly. When I reach my final rodeo I will expect my Doctor to practice medical due diligence & prudence… If someone decides to pull the plug on me it will be their call, not mine…Hell is full of helpful folks who would like a clear conscience.
Some societies will not execute anyone for murder or other heinous crimes, but run up a healthcare bill and they are not so squeamish!
Remember what Sir Winston said when 1940 the British faced a German invasion, “You can take one with you”. A few genocidal medical folks shuffle the mortal coil minds will change.
Belgium…….just slightly ahead of our time.
Logan’s Run, anyone?
It’s not “physician assisted death”, it’s deliberately killing a human who would otherwise live on. We have a name for that. It’s called “murder”, and it is the most socially unacceptable act there is.
It always makes me sneer when these Leftists call Harper a Nazi because he won’t let the re-enact all the policies of the German National Socialists. Projection much?
Hans, well said.
too true Harry. as someone who is much closer to the end than the beginning I would not want some quack telling my family that he knows best and I should be put down.