{"id":19320,"date":"2022-05-26T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19320"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:26:09","slug":"quick-takes-killing-to-kill-killing-the-poor-killing-the-elderly-killing-the-nurse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/05\/26\/quick-takes-killing-to-kill-killing-the-poor-killing-the-elderly-killing-the-nurse\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Killing To Kill: Killing The Poor; Killing The Elderly; Killing The Nurse"},"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: Death be but a kindness to the living.<\/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\/8tbP3f3i03E\" 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;Ah, Canada! That last of \u201cfree\u201d healthcare that just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wants you to die<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSince last year, Canadian law, in all its majesty, has allowed both the rich as well as the poor to kill themselves if they are too poor to continue living with dignity. In fact, the ever-generous Canadian state will even pay for their deaths. What it will not do is spend money to allow them to live instead of killing themselves.\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;And also from Canada, Friend Computer will decide when you have sixth months or less to live\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Risk Evaluation for Support: Predictions for Elder-Life in the Community Tool \u2014 dubbed \u2018RESPECT\u2019 for short \u2014 can predict death within six months, and was developed using data from more than 491,000 community-dwelling adults aged at least 50 years who used home care between 2007 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf the calculator would ever be introduced to Canada\u2019s healthcare system, Bowman believes that it would be interfaced with the country\u2019s medical assistance in dying (MAiD), and could possibly shape the attitude of palliative care and end of life decisions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018It will also shape the attitude of health care workers and it also raises a deeper question of who will interface with the broader question of what types of life are worth living and who decides, which is profoundly important stuff,\u2019 he said.\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;Euthanasia isn\u2019t for just when you <em>want<\/em> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/florida-hospital-sues-to-end-ill-nurses-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">die<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Futile care\u2019 \u2014 the forced removal by doctors and hospital bioethics committees of wanted life-extending treatment over patient and family objections \u2014 is, alas, still the law of Texas. And now a hospital in Florida has sued for the right to do the same thing to Genea Bristol, age 41.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHere\u2019s the bitter irony: Bristol is a nurse who contracted COVID caring for coronavirus patients in nursing homes and experienced severe lung damage. Now, she is threatened with losing her own life despite her own apparent views on such a decision and the wishes of her mother.\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=\"Killing To Kill: Killing The Poor; Killing The Elderly; Killing The Nurse\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Death be but a kindness to the living.\" \/><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;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: Death be but a kindness to the living. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/05\/26\/quick-takes-killing-to-kill-killing-the-poor-killing-the-elderly-killing-the-nurse\/\">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],"tags":[65,42,69,35],"class_list":["post-19320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","tag-doom","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320","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=19320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19321,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320\/revisions\/19321"}],"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=19320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}