{"id":13512,"date":"2017-06-07T00:21:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13512"},"modified":"2017-06-07T00:21:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T07:21:55","slug":"the-medical-normalization-of-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/06\/07\/the-medical-normalization-of-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Medical Normalization of Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" alt=\"Death, Rx\" width=\"287\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Increasingly, suicide is being accepted as a legitimate medical treatment. Medicine\u2014with the ostensible purpose of providing for the health and well-being of a patient\u2014is now being mutated into a justification to kill financial burdens. A Nevada doctor recounts how cost-cutting has entered into the equation of &#8220;death with dignity&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CWrpr_5e4RY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of most concern is that what was being denied was not an extension for the life of someone with a terminal illness or a patient who wanted to die, but rejection of <strong><em>life-saving<\/em> <\/strong>treatments for <a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2017\/06\/nevada-physician-insurance-companies-nixing-cancer-treatment-promoting-assisted-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">patients who wanted to live<\/a>. Nevada, also, weighed the possibility of <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/03\/14\/euthanasia-in-nevada-life-coming-up-snake-eyes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legalizing the slaughter of innocents<\/a> during this year&#8217;s legislative session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Once you&#8217;ve legitimized and normalized homicide as an acceptable form of medical treatment, this became inevitable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A baby, someone who is senile, or someone in a coma, can not consent to any treatment. What, then, stops a doctor from administrating the &#8220;medical treatment&#8221; of euthanasia without the patients consent, just as they would for any other &#8220;medical treatment&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Europe, especially Belgium and the Netherlands, has given us fair warning of the consequences of this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This will not end well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some somber mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PG6c2VSA_no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Medical Normalization of Suicide\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Increasingly, suicide is being accepted as a legitimate medical treatment.  Medicine - with the ostensible purpose of providing for the health and well-being of a patient - is now being mutated into a justification to kill financial burdens.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Increasingly, suicide is being accepted as a legitimate medical treatment. Medicine\u2014with the ostensible purpose of providing for the health and well-being of a patient\u2014is now being mutated into a justification to kill financial burdens. 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