{"id":20917,"date":"2024-07-25T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T21:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20917"},"modified":"2024-07-25T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T21:32:44","slug":"quick-takes-supporting-euthanasia-together-federally-subsidized-homicide-nurses-supporting-homicide-for-the-non-terminally-ill-doctors-supporting-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/07\/25\/quick-takes-supporting-euthanasia-together-federally-subsidized-homicide-nurses-supporting-homicide-for-the-non-terminally-ill-doctors-supporting-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Supporting Euthanasia Together: Federally Subsidized Homicide; Nurses Supporting Homicide; For The Non-Terminally-Ill, Doctors Supporting Homicide"},"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: 9 out of 10 doctors say \u201cKILL \u2018EM!\u201d<\/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\/5lpxbhYPLHM?si=p-Lx7p5YGTupcqwP\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" 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;Looks like people in Congress want to join in on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/bill-would-require-federal-funds-to-pay-for-assisted-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical murder mambo<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe bill plays the usual euphemism game, pretending that assisted suicide isn\u2019t really suicide. From H.R. 8137:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201c\u2018Medical aid-in-dying, an authorized medical practice, is not euthanasia, mercy killing, or assisted suicide.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSigh. This tactic is as predictable as it is disingenuous. If a bill referred to a dung beetle as a butterfly, it wouldn\u2019t change the reality of the thing. The renamed insect still wouldn\u2019t fly and would roll in feces on the ground. The same is true here. The term \u2018assisted suicide\u2019 is accurate and descriptive. \u2018Suicide\u2019 means the intentional killing of oneself. To be \u201cassisted\u201d means to be helped in completing an act. Moreover, \u2018suicide\u2019 is a \u2018what\u2019 that causes death, not a \u2018why.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Medical aid in dying,\u2019 in contrast, is a euphemistic, culture-of-death catchphrase deployed to shroud the reality of what is done. If we care about integrity in legislation, we should recognize that the term \u2018assisted suicide\u2019 is apt \u2014 let alone that it is used in the current funding ban.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe new bill, if passed, would make the current federal law inoperative in states where assisted suicide is legal.\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;Palliative care has gone from making dying people comfortable to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/MQuMU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just killing them<\/a> and getting it over with.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c[There is a] proposed policy around assisted suicide that has been published by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA). It is both abject and a betrayal of Saunders\u2019s humanitarian vision for the care of dying people. And the statement contains not a hint of the many problems and abuses that have been associated with \u201cmedical aid in dying\u201d (MAID), reasons why the European Court of Human Rights recently ruled that access to assisted suicide is not a human right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFirst, the proposed policy position embraces the word-engineering tactic of calling assisted suicide MAID. I have repeatedly criticized this euphemistic deflection and won\u2019t repeat those thoughts here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThen, the statement calls participation in suicide a form of palliative care. From the proposed \u201cHPNA Position Statement: Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD):\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018<em>HPNA acknowledges that some patients with terminal illnesses may seek medical aid in dying (MAiD) as an end-of-life care option where legally available. Although suffering is not a requirement in order to qualify for MAiD in the United States, some patients may utilize this option to relieve their suffering, which is consistent with the ethical principles of palliative nursing care. Suffering at the end of life may be caused by loss of control; death anxiety; feeling like a burden; and refractory physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and existential symptoms. MAiD is consistent with the fundamental ethical principles of patient autonomy and beneficence.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is actually the opposite. As Dame Cecily knew so well, the proper compassionate approach to suicidal ideation \u2014 whether in terminally ill people or otherwise \u2014 is suicide prevention, not participation and facilitation by medical professionals, of all people. Indeed, when I trained as a hospice volunteer in the 1990s, I was strictly instructed to alert the multidisciplinary team if a patient ever indicated a desire for suicide or immediate death.\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;Remember, it\u2019s not malpractice if it\u2019s intentional!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe myth that legal assisted suicide is about terminal illness is becoming harder to swallow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEvidence can be found in a recent survey of doctors, published in the Journal of Cutaneous Oncology, which asked doctors this question: \u2018In addition to adults with terminal illnesses, [which] other groups of patients who should be MAID eligible?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMajorities of doctors surveyed answered that they would be willing to be present when the deed is done. Here\u2019s the question: \u201cIf it were available (or is available), what is your willingness to be present when patients took MAID drugs?\u201d Again, disturbing results, with 61% either probably or definitely, yes:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Definitely not: 6%<\/li>\n<li>Probably not: 33%<\/li>\n<li>Probably yes: 39%<\/li>\n<li>Definitely yes: 22%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat\u2019s only a hop, skip, and a jump to willingness to do the deed. And no doctors would definitely refuse to \u2018refer for MAID.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" align=\"center\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Supporting Euthanasia Together: Federally Subsidized Homicide; Nurses Supporting Homicide; For The Non-Terminally-Ill, Doctors Supporting Homicide\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: 9 out of 10 doctors say \u201cKILL \u2018EM!\u201d\" \/><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: 9 out of 10 doctors say \u201cKILL \u2018EM!\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/07\/25\/quick-takes-supporting-euthanasia-together-federally-subsidized-homicide-nurses-supporting-homicide-for-the-non-terminally-ill-doctors-supporting-homicide\/\">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":[42,69,35],"class_list":["post-20917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917","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=20917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20918,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917\/revisions\/20918"}],"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=20917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}