tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post5056221562658226457..comments2024-03-28T13:26:59.030-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Alex Schadenberg. In support of the Delta Hospice Society.Alex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-24773623597242422862021-01-13T16:40:59.523-05:002021-01-13T16:40:59.523-05:00I believe there is a groundswell beginning to spea...I believe there is a groundswell beginning to speak out against the "slippery slope" of the current attitudes and laws re: euthanasia. I am in this for the long haul.Audreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570863573951003124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-44305456126000129802021-01-08T15:11:44.099-05:002021-01-08T15:11:44.099-05:00Dear Alex,
As I have mentioned to you once or twi...Dear Alex,<br /><br />As I have mentioned to you once or twice in private conversation : I believe that this situation will provoke an all new phase of anti-euthanasia advocacy.<br /><br />It is now time to organize as consumers who are simply being denied access to a service that we wish to buy.<br /><br />I won't go into the services we <i>can</i> buy. It is a long and sometimes grotesque list.<br /><br />On the one side, you will have the government saying that only they can provide healthcare, and that euthanasia friendly care is all that they intend to offer.<br /><br />On the other side, you will have patients and families who know exactly what the want, and exactly why they want it. Who understand, for instance, that care teams who have been groomed to consider euthanasia as normal and, in fact, preferable, <i>cannot</i> provide the required conviction in caring for people who just will not consent to die.<br /><br />These people will ask why they can not buy this service.<br /><br />These people will invest in and build the required facilities.<br /><br />These people will, eventually, engage in a certain level of civil disobedience in defiance of current healthcare delivery<br /><br />Henry Morgentaler, went this route with abortion services. And he won.<br /><br />We have to mobilize the same kind of energy around the idea of a good death (as we define that term). We will have the advantage that nearly no one (statistically) would deliberately choose a euthanasia factory over the sort hospitals and hospices that you and I imagine. All we need to do is provide a choice.<br /><br />This, I believe in all confidence is a dispute that we are heavily favored to win. But only, if we create the institutions ourselves (because just nicely asking other people to do things, they do not want to do, has NEVER been a winning proposition.)<br /><br />I actually think this is a bright new day.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />Gordon Friesen, Montreal<br />http://www.euthanasiediscussion.net/<br />gordon friesenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14093992667966373256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-79320519272965288752021-01-08T15:00:33.398-05:002021-01-08T15:00:33.398-05:00I couldn't agree with you more Alex. My own a...I couldn't agree with you more Alex. My own aged mother was in hospital twice last year, once with blocked stools from too little hydration, and in the peak of her discomfort she was visited on both occasions with an orderly whose job is to get consent for MAiD . They spoke as if it's the common thing and even expected for a very old person who's already lived a good life, given the limits on health resources. They sit or stand by the bed with clipboard and pen half extended to the patient as a body-language signal that this is the expected matter of course. When both times my mother refused and asked for all due care to any natural end, the response was very evident disdain and a huffy attitude. In fact on one of these occasions a different orderly came back later and presented the case all over. This is the untold quiet oppression that's going on, and explains the dramatic surge in euthanizing in Canada. That line about 'limited resources' plays even more emotionally during covid, and the patient often doesn't realize that being already in the hospital means the ward has a duty of care. But then the savvy, reticent patient is often left for long times without due care.geardoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09518003553359038550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-27495953290965471172021-01-08T14:52:51.182-05:002021-01-08T14:52:51.182-05:00Received at a moment when I was thanking God for t...<br /><br />Received at a moment when I was thanking God for the outcome of the vote on "Assisted Dying" in the UK Parliament on Friday 11th September 2015<br /><br />Let it be a lesson to you - when the faithful few pray. What seems impossible or improbable becomes possible.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14463945591868239156noreply@blogger.com