I have always been of the opinion; when each and everyone of use are born we should be issued the magic pill that we can end our own life with when the proper time comes. Not under the scrutiny or approval of SOME doctors – hospitals or nursing homes that are making billions of dollars by keeping the walking dead alive.
If anyone doubts that assumption; take some time to visit a nursing home where many of their inmates are strapped into a wheel chair – sedated so they are under control and left that way day after day.
I am not going to imply that all nursing home – doctors and hospitals have this money agenda in their forefront but I will say many of them do.
In the same shameless category are the many doctors that perform 1,000’s of unnecessary operations just for the fees. Who cold be that cold blooded that they would cut someone open that didn’t need the procedure. Only a butcher would do that.
STUDY: Doctors Perform Thousands Of Unnecessary Surgeries And Reap The Profits
BY TARA CULP-RESSLER
JUN 20, 2013 4:10 PM
Just imagine how much money would be lost to the medical community if the people that are terminally ill were able to pass away at their own discretion. Hundreds of billions a year.
60 Minutes News
The Cost of Dying
Patients’ Last Two Months of Life Cost Medicare $50 Billion Last Year; Is There a Better Way?
If I were given the diagnosis that I had a terminal illness and I could get 6 more month of life if I got a certain procedures or if I didn’t have the procedure I would have 2 months, give me some pain killers and let it happen.
The problem is, there are too MANY people in the medical community selling their patients a bill of goods and are making a fortune in the process. I would consider them hardened – heartless people.
Brittany Maynard was young, beautiful and terminally ill person with a brain tumor, so damaging and painful to her that she was unable to function. Brittany was not able to get medical help so she chose to end her life.
Fortunately for her she lived in the State of Oregon that allows assisted suicides. Because of her extreme circumstance she was given prescription for the lethal dose of barbiturates Written Dr. Eric Walsh of Oregon. Perfectly legal.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-preview-aid-in-dying/
There is no dignity in dying especially when someone is rotting away. It is extremely dehumanizing. What is so glorious about staying alive when someone is so sick they can not take care of their personal needs. I don’t need to get specific.
I read something years ago about the Eskimo population. When someone is old, sick enough and could no longer contribute; they are placed on an iceberg and in 20 minutes they are dead. What is the matter with that?? The way I see it, absolutely nothing.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2160/did-eskimos-put-their-elderly-on-ice-floes-to-die
There is only one downside I see to assisted suicide. IF – IF someone has not reached that critical point in their life and some family member or guardian looks at their bank account and wants them to give them an early exit; that would be a problem.
There are 5 states that allow assisted suicides and I think that is great.
Pro Con
|
State |
Date Passed |
How Passed (Yes Vote) |
Residency Required? |
Minimum Age |
# of Months Until Expected Death |
# of Requests to Physician |
|
1. California |
Oct. 5, 2015 |
End of Life Option Act (ABX2-15) |
Yes |
18 |
Six or less |
Two oral (or least 15 days apart) and one written |
|
2. Montana |
Dec. 31, 2009 |
Montana Supreme Court inBaxter v. Montana (5-4) |
Yes |
* |
* |
* |
|
3. Oregon |
Nov. 8, 1994 |
Ballot Measure 16 (51%) |
Yes |
18 |
Six or less |
Two oral (at least 15 days apart) and one written |
|
4. Vermont |
May 20, 2013 |
Act 39 (Bill S.77 “End of Life Choices” |
Yes |
18 |
Six or less |
Two oral (at least 15 days apart) and one written |
|
5. Washington |
Nov. 4, 2008 |
Initiative 1000 (58%) |
Yes |
18 |
Six or less |
Two oral (at least 15 days apart) and one written |
When are the rest of the states going to get in line. It is 90% all about the money.
I went to see a new doctor the other day and she turned me away because I was not covered in her insurance group. Whatever happened to the Hippocratic Oath??
FOLKS, it is all about the money.
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