tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post4929610607689462262..comments2024-03-28T13:26:59.030-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: I’d be dead if C-7 was law 10 years agoAlex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-38710189544835330862021-04-23T18:49:17.606-04:002021-04-23T18:49:17.606-04:00I live with mental illness that is treatable, but ...I live with mental illness that is treatable, but not curable. There have been ups and downs, but finding a psychiatrist who finally diagnosed me correctly and found a combination of medication that works was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It probably even saved our marriage. He reminds me that there is <b>always</b> hope. It might not be readily apparent, but it is always there. What a cruel joke to allow suicidal people with mental illness (much less the terminally or chronically ill) to ask for death.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10520579370836470910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-42278920160015437012021-04-19T06:25:23.175-04:002021-04-19T06:25:23.175-04:00Thank you, John. This is excellent.Thank you, John. This is excellent.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05239552145156682244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-89359465807048458752021-04-09T00:51:30.846-04:002021-04-09T00:51:30.846-04:00So now it will be even scarier to go to the hospit...So now it will be even scarier to go to the hospital....right when you need actual care, you can't count on it when you most need it. When your mind is not functioning properly, you are facing even greater danger. Thanks Trudeau et al. I guess this doesn't affect you. I think you ought to be ashamed.Melodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-74780070469121940902021-04-07T05:54:40.256-04:002021-04-07T05:54:40.256-04:00Dear Friends:
I hope this isn't too long. ...<br />Dear Friends:<br /><br /> I hope this isn't too long. It's an article I wrote for a local publication. Like Mr. Lawton, my daughter would be dead many times over if this vile bill had been passed twenty years ago.<br /><br />Dear Sir:<br /><br /> There is an unfortunate and offensive expression which conveys the idea that incompetent people have been set a task which they are utterly incapable of performing, to wit "putting the lunatics in charge of the asylum." Tragically, this is precisely what we have seen with the recent approval by the House and Senate of assisted suicide for the mentally ill. Do these arrogant and ill-informed politicians not understand that those suffering from serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are mentally ill because their insight is impaired? <br /> A last will and testament may be legally set aside if it can be shown that the testator had not been of sound mind and sober judgement at the time he executed the document. Surely that same standard ought to apply when a person's very life hangs in the balance.<br /> Promoters of assisted suicide argue that a psychiatrist would be able to distinguish between a desire for death which has been carefully thought out by the logically operating mind of a mentally ill person during a remission of his illness and such a desire which is simply a manifestation of that illness. I am certainly not acquainted with any psychiatrist (I know quite a few) who would presume to decide whether a person should live or die in accordance with his interpretation of the shifting and ephemeral vagaries of his patient’s diseased mind. Remember, the insight of one who suffers from one of these perverse disorders has been seriously impaired; he may well be unable to comprehend the finality of death. <br /> Let's consider a hypothetical scenario: we are among a crowd on a city street looking upward toward the roof of a multi-story building where an obviously highly distraught woman is teetering on the very edge of that roof. Tragically, she leaps forward and plummets to her death before our eyes. We are of course, overwhelmed both by the graphic spectacle which we have just observed and by feelings of grief because the woman had found her life so intolerable that she was driven to end it.<br /> But what if we have it all wrong? If the unfortunate woman suffered from schizophrenia, she might well have believed that she was being pursued by hostile space aliens bent upon torturing and murdering her. She may have leaped forward from that roof in the belief that she could escape by jumping to the roof of a nearby building. Rather than trying to take her life, she was desperately trying to save it. <br /> Finally, our scientists are working every day to develop newer and more sophisticated medications; during my lifetime (I’m 80) chemical treatment for schizophrenia has evolved from crude, debilitating barbiturates and Haldol to the advanced compounds we have today. Furthermore, impressive advances have been made in cognitive and behavioral therapies. How do we know that that “magic bullet” is not just around the corner?<br /> Let’s not liquidate our mentally ill simply because they are inconvenient. <br /><br /> John C. Simpson <br />john c. simpsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-78904448472206291362021-04-07T02:40:16.831-04:002021-04-07T02:40:16.831-04:00Very very sad, but true. Human life is not being ...Very very sad, but true. Human life is not being valued like it should be. What has our world come to? So many do not see how wrong this is. Angiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10359215712392944664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-55664561956857751722021-04-02T13:08:19.487-04:002021-04-02T13:08:19.487-04:00This is a powerful post. The medical profession is...This is a powerful post. The medical profession is the one sliding down a slippery slope into a moral abyss, a process begun with the legalization of abortion. Doctors have abandoned the Hippocratic oath to do no harm. Many now see killing their patients as a good. Utterly demonic.John the Madhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899858119936750764noreply@blogger.com