{"id":16603,"date":"2020-05-21T00:54:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T07:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16603"},"modified":"2020-05-21T00:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T07:54:19","slug":"quick-takes-kill-the-crazy-dutch-dementia-death-not-killing-as-discrimination-homicide-training-as-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/05\/21\/quick-takes-kill-the-crazy-dutch-dementia-death-not-killing-as-discrimination-homicide-training-as-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Kill The Crazy: Dutch Dementia Death; Not Killing As Discrimination; Homicide Training As Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Crazy Gideon hardest hit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EDeL36FykaE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Dutch Supreme Court, being Dutch, thinks that killing people who actively fight against being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/dutch-supreme-court-approves-euthanasia-for-dementia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">put down like a dog<\/a> it totes spiffy.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMore than 20 years ago, the Dutch Supreme Court approved the assisted suicide of a woman in despair because her children had died. So we shouldn\u2019t be surprised that it has now explicitly approved the forced euthanasia of patients with dementia if they asked to be killed before becoming incompetent. From <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/reuters\/2020\/04\/21\/world\/europe\/21reuters-health-euthanasia-netherlands.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201c\u2018The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that doctors could legally carry out euthanasia on people with advanced dementia who had earlier put their wishes in writing even if they could no longer confirm them because of their illness.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat the Reuters story failed to mention \u2014 and apparently the Supreme Court found to be irrelevant \u2014 is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/dutch-euthanasia-authorities-ok-apparent-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the case in question<\/a> involved a woman who fought against being killed. Nor does the story mention that the doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and that the doctor instructed the family to hold the struggling woman down so that she could administer the lethal injection. Moreover, the patient had also stated in her instructions that she wanted to decide \u2018when\u2019 the time for death had come \u2014 which she never did. The termination \u2018choice\u2019 was made by the doctor and\/or family in violation of the patient\u2019s advance directive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ah, Canada, where \u201cdiscrimination\u201d is worse than homicide\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/canada-psychiatrists-refusing-euthanasia-for-mentally-ill-is-discrimination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">literally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDedicated psychiatrists are often the only defense between patients with serious mental illness and suicide. But legalizing euthanasia shifts thinking 180 degrees because suicide has been redefined as health care and a right. Hence, protections \u2014 such as barring administered death to the mentally ill \u2014 soon come to be seen as obstacles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat has happened in Canada, where the government is erasing its weak provision that death must be \u201creasonably foreseeable\u201d requirement to qualify for killing. Once that provision is repealed, psychiatric conditions diagnosed \u201cirremediable\u201d could qualify for death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is the context in which the Canadian Psychiatric Association has warned the government not to \u2018discriminate\u2019 against the mentally ill by barring them from lethal jabs when the law is changed. \u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, in California, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/training-doctors-how-to-assist-suicides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homicide is considered a legitimate medical specialty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn California, a death doctor named Lonnie Shavelson is trying to start an assisted suicide specialty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBefore California legalized assisted suicide, he was a part-time ER doctor who mostly pursued photo journalism rather than practice medicine. These days, Shavelson devotes himself to death doctoring, for $2000 a pop (as of 2016).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs far as I know, Shavelson is not a certified medical expert in the long-term treatment of serious illnesses like cancer or in the provision of palliative care, hospice, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe has long been a committed pro-assisted suicide ideologue. How committed? As he described in his 1995 book, A Chosen Death, Shavelson watched a Hemlock Society leader he called \u2018Sarah\u2019 murder a disabled man named Gene who changed his mind about being assisted in suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/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=\"Kill The Crazy: Dutch Dementia Death; Not Killing As Discrimination; Homicide Training As Medicine\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Crazy Gideon hardest hit.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Crazy Gideon hardest hit. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/05\/21\/quick-takes-kill-the-crazy-dutch-dementia-death-not-killing-as-discrimination-homicide-training-as-medicine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[65,9,35],"class_list":["post-16603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-doom","tag-europe","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16604,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603\/revisions\/16604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}