{"id":19237,"date":"2022-04-28T00:02:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T07:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19237"},"modified":"2022-04-28T00:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T07:02:55","slug":"quick-takes-euthanasia-kill-the-anorexic-kill-the-healthy-just-kill-em-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/04\/28\/quick-takes-euthanasia-kill-the-anorexic-kill-the-healthy-just-kill-em-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Euthanasia: Kill The Anorexic; Kill The Healthy; Just Kill \u2018Em All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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: Ain\u2019t no more equitable medical outcome than death to all!<\/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\/V4jUZ-Ex1k0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; 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-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;Remember when euthanasia was just a \u201cdignified\u201d way for the terminally ill to pass on? \u00a0 Well apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/pushing-assisted-suicide-for-terminal-anorexia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anorexia<\/a> is \u201cterminal\u201d and cured by making sure you never get fat\u2026 ever.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe push is now on to allow assisted suicide for psychiatric patients. The Journal of Eating Disorders has published a piece urging that psychiatrists be allowed to assist the suicides of patients afflicted with anorexia who want to die rather than continue to struggle against their mental illness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThink about this. Seriously. Assisted suicide is being pushed as a \u2018treatment\u2019 for serious psychiatric disorders in a respected medical journal. Awful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe idea expressed is that some cases of anorexia are so severe, they should be considered terminal, like cancer. But mental illness is not like an implacable biological disease process. The person with severe mental illness can be kept going. It might be very difficult. It might require even involuntary hospitalization. With anorexia, if the patient was compelled to receive nutrition, she wouldn\u2019t die. We might not want to do that, but we could. That is not true of diseases like terminal cancer (which should also not qualify for assisted suicide).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNever mind all that. The authors want patients with \u201cterminal\u201d anorexia to have access to assisted suicide:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Acknowledging the considerable controversies surrounding MAID for patients with mental disorders, we also submit that patients with terminal AN who are severely physiologically compromised, and whose end-of life suffering results from both psychological and physical pain, should be afforded access to medical aid in dying in locations where such assistance has been legalized\u2014just like other patients with terminal conditions.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat\u2019s abandonment, no matter how well-meaning. Sometimes, the only thing standing between a severely mentally ill patient and death is a dedicated psychiatrist or psychologist.\u201d<\/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;Apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/healthy-american-sisters-die-at-swiss-suicide-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a healthy life is also a terminal illness<\/a> that must compassionately result in a \u201cdignified\u201d euthanasia.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNow a suicide clinic in Switzerland has committed a joint assisted suicide of apparently healthy sisters from Arizona who flew there secretly to be made dead. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Sisters Lila Ammouri and Susan Frazier who died by assisted suicide in Switzerland had been healthy and happy prior to their death, their brother says. Cal Ammouri, 60, told The Independent he last spoke to his sisters a few weeks before they travelled to Switzerland on 3 February, and there was no indication they were about to end their lives. He said he had been kept in the dark by US Consular services about the cause of death . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Lila Ammouri, 54, a palliative care doctor, and Ms Frazier, 49, a registered nurse, flew from Arizona to Switzerland via Chicago on 3 February without telling friends or family. When they didn\u2019t didn\u2019t show up for work at Aetna Health Insurance on 15 February, colleagues raised the alarm, fearing they may have been kidnapped or held hostage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Their death was confirmed by the US Consulate in Switzerland on 18 February. Basel-Landschaft Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office spokesman Michael Lutz told The Independent the sisters had died with the help of an assisted suicide organisation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAlways remember that the conjoined mantras, \u2018Strict guidelines protect against abuse,\u2019 and, \u2018Assisted suicide is only for the terminally ill,\u2019 are utter bunk. Once suicide is redefined as a human right, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep the beast caged.\u201d<\/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;The Dutch, unsurprisingly, are ready to offer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/ground-being-prepared-for-death-on-demand-in-the-netherlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death to all takers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOnce killing is defined as an acceptable response to suffering, there are few natural stopping points in the steady expansion of legalized euthanasia or assisted suicide. Requiring a diagnosed medical condition still retains some heft. But it isn\u2019t logical, since the ultimate issue is suffering, not its causes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThese days, even that boundary line is growing more blurry \u2014 particularly in countries that have fully swallowed the euthanasia hemlock \u2014 which is why a new study published in Population Health is cause for alarm. It appears to be an early gambit to remove the medical requirement from the Dutch law altogether.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe study finds that some Dutch people commit suicide \u2018in the absence of a medical condition.\u2019 Obviously. But if euthanasia is merely a medical \u2018treatment,\u2019 wouldn\u2019t that finding call for increased efforts at prevention in such cases?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAh, but that\u2019s not how this issue works. Once in for a penny, in for a pound, because euthanasia changes mindsets to think of death as a positive when it is wanted (and even if it isn\u2019t in some cases). The sheer force of gravity unleashed by such laws pushes society logically toward accepting a process of continually expanding access to death for nearly any nontransitory reason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018How to address the desire to die\u2019 \u2014 posed as a question \u2014 sure seems like an invitation for authorities to begin thinking about removing the requirement of a medical condition as a predicate to being euthanized.\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=\"Euthanasia: Kill The Anorexic; Kill The Healthy; Just Kill \u2018Em All\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Ain\u2019t no more equitable medical outcome than death to all!\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: Ain\u2019t no more equitable medical outcome than death to all! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/04\/28\/quick-takes-euthanasia-kill-the-anorexic-kill-the-healthy-just-kill-em-all\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[65,9,24,35],"class_list":["post-19237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-doom","tag-europe","tag-leviathan","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237","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=19237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19238,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237\/revisions\/19238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}