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Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Death with Dignity Or Obscenity? Page 1 of 11 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Death with Dignity or Obscenity? Page 1 of 11 SEARCH BLOG FLAG BLOG Next Blog» Create Blog | Sign In Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Friday, October 17, 2008 Followers (12) Death with Dignity or Obscenity? Follow this blog By Jean Echlin, Nurse Consultant - Palliative Care & Gerontology To die, to sleep-- To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub, 12 Followers View All For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Must give us pause. http://www.epcc.ca/ An excerpt from a monologue in the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare About Me ALEX SCHADENBERG A Sea of Trust? Alex Schadenberg There is a draconian evil moving aggressively is the executive through our culture. It comes in the form of a director of the lethal cult called Compassion & Choices or Euthanasia Prevention Coalition - Death With Dignity. Its leaders and adherents support the cause of euthanasia and assisted Canada, the Chair of the suicide which they call "aid-in-dying." Some Euthanasia Prevention Coalition - adherents, who want death on demand, have International Website: a strong desire to die at the time of their choosing. However this is www.epcc.ca, Email: a deadly and distorted ideology. Its leaders insist that physicians, nurses or other health care providers prescribe and give lethal [email protected],. Call: 1-877-439- injections, provide the gas, or the drugs necessary to kill a person, 3348. or give them the means to kill themselves. This may include a View my complete profile plastic "Exit Bag" or simply a plastic garbage bag secured over the face, head and neck in order to dispense with oxygen. Blog Archive Professional health care relationships with doctors, nurses, patients and family members float on a sea of trust. Asking professional ▼ 2009 (11) health care providers to kill, or give the means to kill, will destroy ▼ January (11) this trust relationship. I emphatically believe that we have no right Peddlers of death look to to ask our professional care givers to provide us with death. Neither should our health care providers ever feel obligated to comply with Africa this narcissistic request. Montana - Legalizes assisted suicide by Why do I believe that? judicial e... It is against every ethical principle and moral UK director of prosecution code for healers to intentionally cause the death appears to be lobbying ... of their patients. If they do, we in fact should not http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2008/10/death-with-dignity-or-obscenity.html 1/13/2009 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Death with Dignity or Obscenity? Page 2 of 11 and could not ever trust them again. How would Judicial Tyranny in you know if the person coming into your hospital room with a Montana - Montana Judge needle was intent on curing you or killing you? forces... Currently, thousands of dollars are being collected throughout the Dignitas under investigation U.S. to assist Washington State’s (I-1000) assisted suicide vote for 'profiteering' fr... that would legalize assisted suicide in the upcoming American election. Unfortunately, many people in our culture have very little Baroness Warnock says understanding of what this will mean in their future, in the future of that: Doctors who refuse their parents and the future of their children. Why are these dollars eut... not being used to promote good pain management and excellence in end-of-life care? Suicide prevention mandatory for national What on earth are they thinking? accredit... If you advocate for euthanasia and assisted suicide by voting for Frail Elderly Vulnerable to decriminalization the following will result. You will have the solid Abuse assurance of authorizing the death of you and/or your family Montreal Gazette: Quebec members regardless of age or ability to consent. should condemn assisted Take for example, your 78 year-old mother who has been s... devastated and feels very depressed following the death of her Fear Mongering for Assisted spouse of more than 50 years. She is experiencing difficult Suicide in Scotland symptoms related to a treatable but possibly late stage illness. How will you respond? Is it not in your mother’s best interest to get Assisted Suicide - A counseling in an attempt to treat her depression? If your mother personal point-of-view should call upon an advocate or member of Compassion & Choices or Dying With Dignity, she would likely be encouraged to take their least dignified way out and "die now." An estimated 73% of all ► 2008 (221) assisted suicide deaths in the State of Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal, are facilitated in some manner by the Compassion & Choices lobby group. When the "Right to Die" lobby and the end- Labels of-life decision maker are the same people, there is no protection Africa (1) for your vulnerable mother. Alison Davis (3) Another scenario is your 65 year old father with late stage pancreatic cancer. He has been a very productive, healthy man who Assisted Suicide (14) has chosen to live as long as he can. He refuses to be Australia (11) labeled "terminal." His medical oncologist has advised the use of palliative chemotherapy that is far less toxic than curative Balfour Mount (1) chemotherapy. Your father has received the news that his Health Barbara Wagner (8) Maintenance Organization (HMO) has denied coverage for the chemotherapy. Instead, they offered to pay for him to obtain belgium euthanasia (8) assisted suicide. He does not have the financial means to pay for Bill AB 2747 (4) this therapy, which his medical oncologist had indicated would give him an extension of life and better quality of life. Bill C-562 (4) Accepting this offer will deny him the civil right to choose life Bobby Schindler (1) instead of an assisted death. Does this seem fair or reasonable? Brain death (5) What would you do in this situation? Could you afford to pay for his chemotherapy to assist in his self-determination to live longer? The Canadian Medical Association (1) less expensive choice of death is coercion to die that in the end Cardiac Death (3) leads to a "duty to die." Care Not Killing Alliance (5) This happened to Barbara Wagner (54) in Oregon who was denied effective treatment for Chantal Maltais (4) lung cancer but offered assisted suicide by the Chantal Sebire (1) Oregon Department of Health. [see "Death drugs cause uproar in Oregon" August 6, Church of Euthanasia (1) 2008 ; http://abcnews.go.com] http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2008/10/death-with-dignity-or-obscenity.html 1/13/2009 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Death with Dignity or Obscenity? Page 3 of 11 Coalition Against Assisted Suicide Death is not the appropriate solution to pain and suffering, good (8) palliative care is Consience rights (2) If we vote to legalize euthanasia or assisted suicide we are giving Cost containment (3) away our civil rights; in the United States - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and in Canada - life, liberty and the security of Council of Canadians with person. The prophets of the death cult want us to believe death is Disabilities (1) the logical answer to pain and suffering. They may even see the infliction of death or the provision of assisted suicide as part of the Czech Republic (1) hospice palliative care mission. They pursue their cause like Daniel James (7) missionaries and zealots proselytizing their gospel of death. Further, mainline media has picked up their cause and preach like Death Anxiety (2) the most persuasive evangelicals. Death Tourism (8) I believe that those medical professionals and organizations Debbie Purdy (5) choosing to practice or support euthanasia and/or assisted suicide as "mercy killing" should not be providers of hospice palliative care. Depression (18) In addition, they should not be sitting on governing bodies, Derek Humphry (4) advisory councils or committees working on developing standards of practice for palliative care that may include assisted suicide as Descrimination of People with part of the hospice/palliative care continuum. This may mean that Disabilities (4) parallel programs not inclusive of assisted suicide and euthanasia may need to be developed. Dick Sobsey (2) Dignitas clinic (15) Who is at risk? Disability Perspective (11) If the law is changed to allow euthanasia and assisted suicide, Duty to Die (8) those at highest risk will be: Elder Abuse (2) · Older women (55 and above) or elderly fragile men EPC (1) · Individuals with physical or mental disabilities Equality (1) · Partners in scenarios of domestic violence Eugenics (3) euthanasia (7) · Babies and children born with disabilities and birth anomalies Euthanasia by dehydration (26) · Persons who are poor and disenfranchised Euthanasia of people with · Members of minority groups disabilities (36) Euthanasia Symposium (2) Jean’s Way Exit Bag (9) Derek Humphry is the co-founder of the Final Exit (2) Hemlock Society. In fact, Humphry’s notion of "self-deliverance" was practiced by him in Francine Lalonde (5) the death of his first wife, Jean. Following her death, Humphry and his second wife Ann wrote Futile care theory (18) the book Jean’s Way. This started Humphry’s George Exoo (4) rise to power and prestige in the cult of death. Later he participated, with Ann’s help, in Gordon Brown (1) procuring the death of his second wife’s parents ….something Ann Groningen Protocol (3) would later deeply regret. Hawaii (1) When Ann developed cancer, Humphry responded by encouraging her to commit suicide. When she decided to seek treatment, he Herbert Hendin (5) abandoned her. In her book Deadly Compassion, Rita Marker imposed death (1) quotes Ann’s last words to Derek Humphry: "What you did – desertion and abandonment and subsequent harassment of a dying http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2008/10/death-with-dignity-or-obscenity.html 1/13/2009 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Death with Dignity or Obscenity? Page 4 of 11 woman – is so unspeakable there are no words to describe the Internet suicide sites (14) horror of it." [excerpt from Ann Humphry’s suicide note].
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