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Thread ID: 18127 | Posts: 11 | Started: 2005-05-07
2005-05-07 03:46 | User Profile
This is so surreal I almost don't believe it. - RRP
Selling death by euthanasia kits by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com Wednesday, May 4, 2005
[url]http://www.torontofreepress.com/2005/cover050405.htm[/url]
In Belgium, home of the European Union, they clone doctors like neurologist Dr. Ronald Cranford. Cranford is the doctor who categorized Terri Schiavo in the persistent vegetative state, which led to her death by dehydration when her feeding tube was ordered removed.
The law allows doctors in Belgium to kill the patient if the person is terminally ill and suffering "constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain" from an accident or incurable illness, and if that patient requests death.
The doctor must also be satisfied that the patient is "of age and conscious" and has made the decision to be killed freely, without coercion.
Not only are white-coated doctors administering bedside suicide in the way they used to dispense cheer, now Belgian pharmacies are now cashing in on the death trade.
**Two hundred and fifty pharmacies across Belgium began offering euthanasia kits last week, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
The kits cost 60 Euros ($77 U.S.) and are proposed as a means to make the jobs of doctors, who commit euthanasia in homes easier. A yahoo.com report said that 40 percent of euthanasia occurs in the patient’s home in Belgium.**
Belgian health authorities report almost 700 euthanasia killings by physicians since it was legalized in 2002.
Sine euthanasia was legalized, the number of deaths by the practice has gone from approximately 20 per month to 30 per month.
The Netherlands has also seen a rise in euthanasia cases from 1,815 in 2003 to 1,886 last year, according to the country’s health ministry statistics. Euthanasia was widespread in the Netherlands before it became legalized.
Death happy societies are bound to claim victims by default.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition in Ontario laments the fact that the legislators in Belgium have followed the lead of their Dutch neighbour. Says spokesman Alex Schadenberg: "We are concerned that vulnerable people (disabled, elderly, chronically ill and the poor) in Belgium will now find themselves forced into "choosing" an earlier death or be killed against their consent. Dutch courts have already allowed euthanasia for the depressed, we fear that Belgium will soon follow their lead."
In the United States, doctors like Cranford are out on the public speakers circuit peddling the hard sell for assisted suicide.
A self-proclaimed bioethicist, Cranford is a pioneer in euthanasia and right to die issues.
As if he were merely shilling stocks, Cranford employs PR by advertising himself as "Dr. Humane".
2005-05-07 04:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE=]This is so surreal I almost don't believe it[/QUOTE] For sure, I can't believe it, what a rip off. I'll bet I can hire any nignog immigrant straight off the boat from the UK for a 50 euro note to do the same thing. In comparison these euthanasia kits are asking almost twenty percent extra. Itââ¬â¢s certainly indicative of the moral malaise in continental Europe when they start to overcharge for killing the old and helpless. Iââ¬â¢m sure libertarians state side are horror struck.
2005-05-07 04:11 | User Profile
You have the right to GO if you feel like it and when the time comes you will know.
2005-05-07 04:19 | User Profile
[QUOTE=na Gaeil is gile]For sure, I can't believe it, what a rip off. I'll bet I can hire any nignog immigrant straight off the boat from the UK for a 50 euro note to do the same thing. In comparison these euthanasia kits are asking almost twenty percent extra. It’s certainly indicative of the moral malaise in continental Europe when they start to overcharge for killing the old and helpless. I’m sure libertarians state side are horror struck.[/QUOTE] I get skeptical about these Euro-horror stories ever since the article about the German woman who was told to become a prostitute or they would cut off her dole. This one appears to be real though.
I'm not the suicidin' type myself, but if I was there's no way I'd check out in a manner as uncreative as this. Why be so pedestrian even in death? I'd much prefer a "political statement" such as a McDonald's suicide-bomber mission, or maybe jump in front of a speeding ambulance for a touch of irony.
2005-05-07 04:25 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]You have the right to GO if you feel like it and when the time comes you will know.[/QUOTE] Although I've trivialised it for the sake of humour and some other issues, the key conservative objection to euthanasia is that it certainly will not stop (and hasn't) at a voluntary level.
2005-05-07 04:27 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]You have the right to GO if you feel like it and when the time comes you will know.[/QUOTE] In practise you will have the right to go when your care becomes an inconvenient burden for your health insurance company and your selfish relatives. When the time comes they'll let you know, directly or indirectly.
Legalised euthanasia for depression? Come on.
2005-05-07 04:45 | User Profile
[QUOTE=RowdyRoddyPiper]I get skeptical about these Euro-horror stories ever since the article about the German woman who was told to become a prostitute or they would cut off her dole. This one appears to be real though. [/QUOTE] :thumbsup: Awh yeah, that was certainly nonsense. The Anglophone press takes a prurient delight in fake horror stories of European ââ¬Ësocialismââ¬â¢ in the same way the smug continental European press plays up American ââ¬Ëstupidityââ¬Ë. Cui bono?
2005-05-07 05:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE=na Gaeil is gile]The Anglophone press takes a prurient delight in fake horror stories of European ââ¬Ësocialismââ¬â¢ in the same way the smug continental European press plays up American ââ¬Ëstupidityââ¬Ë. Cui bono?[/QUOTE] This is certainly true with the Neocon media here. One of their favorite tactics to divert folks from things of substance is to holler about European Socialism while ignoring that of Israel's.
2005-05-07 18:00 | User Profile
=== You have the right to GO if you feel like it
You want to tell me where in "western civilization" you find this "right", Ponce?
Is there no ideology or Big Lie so self-defeating that Whitey won't buy it?
2005-05-07 18:06 | User Profile
Leap off a tall building: Free. :blow:
2005-05-07 19:04 | User Profile
The only effective cure for late stage Alzheimer's is a .357 magnum.