tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post8028820007092416552..comments2024-03-27T11:49:41.376-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Assisted suicide activist promotes Oregon for suicide tourismAlex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-84364195996374642752022-11-14T15:34:27.089-05:002022-11-14T15:34:27.089-05:00It is very interesting to note that medical status...It is very interesting to note that medical status for assisted death has never been asked for by the medical profession acting together. On the contrary, assisted death has always remained a minority proposition among this group.<br /><br />And that is for very good reason. Imagine for instance, that on presenting you with a terminal diagnosis, your own doctor were to explain (like Gideonse) that euthanasia (for you) would be "care consistent with his best medical judgment". Imagine that you were to refuse that option. What then? What would your future relation of mutual trust and respect be with that critically important professional? How would you perceive that doctor and the energy he would bring to sustaining your future survival?<br /><br />Once again. There are good reasons why the majority of doctors have always opposed this practice. (And that centre group in Canada which supports their colleagues' right to choose does not in any way change that essential opposition)<br /><br />The reason we have legal assisted death is because of the argument of choice, which has little or nothing to do with medicine. Neither Rodriquez, nor Carter, nor Truchon-Gladu were about "intolerable suffering at end of life". They were all about a sovereign right to choose one's time of death.<br /><br />These are subtle points. But saving healthcare (in Canada and elsewhere) depends upon explaining that your neighbors "right to choose" and your right to be cared for by a doctor who believes that your life is worth sustaining, are two very different things. And right now, through the medical interpretation of assisted death, it is YOUR right to proper medical care which is under attack.gordon friesenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14093992667966373256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-67935595136055734492022-11-14T11:23:59.516-05:002022-11-14T11:23:59.516-05:00Another reason doctors do not have to mention MAiD...Another reason doctors do not have to mention MAiD to patients is MAiD is not the standard of care. No one would argue a doctor has a duty to suggest suicide as an option to the doctor's patient. A doctor who did this would be committing medical practice by abandoning the patient.SB from Friends For Life Alliancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06217026791787060205noreply@blogger.com