tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post114948988321218409..comments2024-03-28T13:26:59.030-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: New Assisted Dying law claims unintended victims.Alex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-40765629535932124132016-12-30T12:18:07.419-05:002016-12-30T12:18:07.419-05:00Legalized murder is still murder in the eyes of Go...Legalized murder is still murder in the eyes of God.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13938464057108358636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-46797835583007351292016-12-30T12:17:06.715-05:002016-12-30T12:17:06.715-05:00These so called euthanasia victims are actually mu...These so called euthanasia victims are actually murders. Whenever men take the lives of other men for any reason other than judgment because of a crime or via war, they are committing murder. All abortion is murder with the exception of doing it to save the directly threatened life of the mother. Murder and killing has become of a way of life for these doctors of death in Canada. Their conscience seems to have already died and their souls will follow.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13938464057108358636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-86411126287497089772016-09-30T19:28:52.648-04:002016-09-30T19:28:52.648-04:00Horrific! Horrific! SB from Friends For Life Alliancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06217026791787060205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-40659860876435641922016-09-29T20:09:06.517-04:002016-09-29T20:09:06.517-04:00Dear Doctor Johnson,
Your anecdotes are very dist...Dear Doctor Johnson,<br /><br />Your anecdotes are very distressing. No doubt about it. I for one am personally outraged.<br /><br />Unfortunately, we live in a complex legal and ethical environment in which that which is “right” (however that be defined) and that which is “legally permissible” are not expected to coincide, even in theory. Nobody, for instance, would maintain that heroin addiction, in and of itself, is a positive good. Nobody would maintain that the families of addicts, or the addicts themselves, do not suffer. However, the argument is still made that the state should enable this practice, with safe injection and eventually safe free drug supply. It is therefore not possible to influence public policy simply by demonstrating that something is “right” or (as in the case of euthanasia) “wrong”.<br /><br />It might be wrong. But people don’t care. There are other pragmatic reasons to let it happen, and to encourage the practice. <br /><br />Moreover, the euthanasia justification at present is based upon personal freedom of choice. This is the impenetrable fetish argument of the twentieth century. Prohibition. Free Union. Divorce. Abortion. and now subsidized drug addiction and euthanasia. In the sublime words of Billy Holiday:<br /><br />If some day I should take a notion;<br />To throw myself into the ocean;<br />It’s no body’s business, if I do.<br /><br />There is not, at present – and probably will not be for a long time to come -- any way to make a dent in this social construct. But this is also the Achille’s heel of the more enterprising, standardized, utilitarian euthanasia program which our government bean counters are apparently lusting after.<br /><br />Freedom of choice cuts both ways. The vast majority of handicapped individuals, such as myself, should also have the right to freely express our choice. We should have access to the care of uncompromising Hippocratic medical professionals, not because that is the “right” thing, but because that is the service we wish to BUY.<br /><br />And that Hippocratic service should be supplied by the state, because we pay taxes for health care, and this is the health care we CHOOSE.<br /><br />(The state, should not have the right to take our money, and then provide us (only) with a service which we do not want. This, after all, is the most basic malfeasance in business practice, known derogatively as the “bait and switch”.)<br /><br />Therefore, it is in the following way that I believe we should articulate, among other similar distinctions, the necessity to maintain purely Hippocratic Palliative Care : Euthanasia and Palliative Care do not mix any more than oil and water. There is a huge demand for Palliative Care. Therefore, true Palliative Care facilities should be provided.<br /><br />This in no way impinges upon the “right” of the suicidal to obtain satisfaction. We are simply pointing out the very obvious fact that satisfying the suicidal does not logically entail the loss, by everybody else, of the Hippocratic services they desire and that they pay the government to provide.<br /><br />So to summarize the essential: This is not a “moral” argument. The right to Hippocratic medicine is a commercial issue of consumer choice. We want it. We pay for it. We must have it.<br /><br />Feel the Love,<br /><br />Gordon from Montreal<br />ParaTir Quebechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18369422860408463919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-46721898211220447102016-09-29T16:09:10.131-04:002016-09-29T16:09:10.131-04:00What on earth is going on? How can things like thi...What on earth is going on? How can things like this be stopped? We're in the mire already. People are made in the image of God. People should be respected and helped not destroyed. The foundations of our culture have been destroyed and how many care? Destroy that image and God will be offended. People will be destroyed. Who can turn this downward trend?Jan Onoreply@blogger.com