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Special Report: Death with Dignity, Or So They Say
April 5,2020

Euthanasia by Telehealth: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Phoning it in: push for assisted suicide by telehealth raises specter of increased misdiagnoses (which already affect 12 million Americans a year)
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/04/assisted-suicide-by-telehealth-and.html
The Netherlands throws granny off a cliff, denying COVID-19 treatment to the elderly; Dutch doctor just can’t understand why Italy and Spain admit old people to the ICU
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/03/30/netherlands-accused-of-refusing-to-treat-elderly-coronavirus-patients/

U.S. authorities warn states not to discriminate against the elderly or disabled in their coronavirus rationing plans
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/03/us-department-of-health-and-human.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/coronavirus-disabilities-rationing-ventilators-triage.html
  • HHS: “Our civil rights laws protect the equal dignity of every human life from ruthless utilitarianism,”.. “Persons with disabilities, with limited English skills and older persons should not be put at the end of the line for health care during emergencies.”

Subjective criteria, anti-conscience mandates for health professionals, and allowing nurses to determine what conditions will ‘cause death’ are among the defects in a pro-euthanasia parliamentary report in Queensland, Australia
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/04/euthanasia-in-queensland-australia-with.html

Propaganda Alert: Leftists in the Catholic Church conflating climate change and other ‘social justice’ issues with moral life issues (e.g., abortion) under the rubric of the ‘seamless garment’. #TheLeftNeverSleeps
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/abp-aquila-rips-seamless-garment
  • Time was when the ‘seamless garment’ meant respect for all life (e.g., opposing abortion AND the death penalty).  Now the term has been co-opted by the Left to put social justice issues on a par with life issues (e.g., climate change is just as bad as euthanasia, so let’s agitate about climate change on moral grounds).  This trivializes life issues, like euthanasia.  Nice try.

Incongruity: The Democrat-controlled Virginia Department of Health ran anti-suicide ads at the same time the Democrats pushed for an assisted suicide bill in the state legislature.


March 29, 2020

Pandemic Shows Unhealthy Death Culture Taking Hold in Society

The legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia has fueled prejudice against the elderly and the disabled in the current COVID-19 ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ discussions
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/27/as-coronavirus-hits-hospitals-the-ugly-specter-of-euthanasia-raises-its-head/

Death doctors join death lobby in exploiting pandemic and pushing expansion of assisted death to allow phoning it in (telemedicine)
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/03/death-doctors-using-covid-19-crisis-to.html

Past-president of Canadian Psychiatric Association: allowing euthanasia for mental illness crosses a bright line - up to this point, euthanasia has been for irremediable conditions only, and mental illness does not qualify
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/03/dr-sonu-gaind-canadian-psychiatric.html

New Jersey court hears arguments in case seeking to invalidate state’s ‘aid in dying’ law; arguments include how the statute can be construed to allow euthanasia and how the supposed safeguards are ineffectual
https://www.choiceillusion.org/2020/03/margaret-dore-new-jersey-euthanasia-act.html

Washington state death lobby admits lethal drug cocktails can take hours to work - neglecting to mention it was 47 hours in one case and people do come out of their drug-induced comas during the process
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/03/washington-state-assisted-suicide-lobby.html

Inhumane deaths are occurring in the course of human experimentation to find a cheaper assisted death drug
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/03/lethal-drugs-used-for-assisted-suicide.html

Is it ethical to withdraw artificial hydration and nutrition? It depends. Long article parses scenarios and distinctions.
https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/margaret-somerville-withdrawing-artificial-hydration-and-nutrition/

Recent voices calling for euthanasia to save money and benefit society echo book that was required reading for doctors in Hitler’s time: Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life. When individuals become nothing more than chopped liver to the State, government-controlled death is right around the corner.
https://onenewsnow.com/pro-life/2020/03/23/medical-journal-publishes-study-encouraging-euthanasia


March 22, 2020

Death activists exploiting coronavirus to push assisted suicide

Death activists exploiting coronavirus to push assisted suicide by telehealth
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/03/assisted-suicide-lobby-is-using-covid.html Canadian government wants euthanasia available to mentally ill and incompetent people (and how soon before the government makes the decision for them to save money and harvest their organs?)
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/02/government-permits-euthanasia-of.html New York assisted suicide bill is elder abuse - it’s foreseeable families and caregivers will coerce older people into killing themselves; bill lets drive-by and telemedicine docs sign off without an abuse risk assessment
https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/State-s-assisted-suicide-bill-imperils-elder-15148300.php
  • If ‘individual autonomy’ were truly important to the euthanistas, wouldn’t they be insisting that older people vulnerable to coercion get to keep theirs?

Progressive urges peers to oppose assisted suicide in order to protect the most vulnerable among us, prevent greedy insurance companies from profiting, etc.
https://www.nhregister.com/opinion/article/Opinion-Health-care-not-assisted-suicide-15142723.php
  • Persuasion opportunity: put the argument in terms of the values that are important to the people you are attempting to persuade

Comment on ‘bioethicists’ pushing euthanasia to save money and harvest organs: “Normal people don’t think like these authors, which is why we should never cede power to the bioethics movement to determine the medical ethics and public health policies that impact us and those we love.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bioethicists-euthanasia-will-save-money-and-facilitate-organ-donations/