{"id":20947,"date":"2024-08-08T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20947"},"modified":"2024-08-08T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T15:42:08","slug":"quick-takes-end-of-life-euthanizing-because-of-eating-disorders-euthanizing-because-of-bed-sores-euthanizing-because-of-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/08\/08\/quick-takes-end-of-life-euthanizing-because-of-eating-disorders-euthanizing-because-of-bed-sores-euthanizing-because-of-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 End Of Life? Euthanizing Because Of Eating Disorders; Euthanizing Because Of Bed Sores; Euthanizing Because Of Mental Illness"},"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: A \u201cdignified death\u201d for the undesirables.<\/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\/UMlkSxwlpXs?si=MC3t61MVDt38oeAR\" 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;Anorexia or Bulimia? Both are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/psychiatry\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyt.2024.1431771\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">welcome to die<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe identified 10 peer-reviewed articles and 20 government reports describing at least 60 patients with EDs who underwent assisted dying between 2012 and 2024. Clinical rationales were categorized into three domains: irremediability, terminality, and voluntary request. Reports emphasized that patients with EDs who underwent assisted death had terminal, incurable, and\/or untreatable conditions and had adequate decision-making capacity to make a life-ending decision. Most government reports did not include descriptive-enough data to verify psychiatric conditions.\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;Canada\u2019s vaunted socialist healthcare is so wonderful, people are <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10586575\/quebec-bedsores-maid-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dying to escape<\/a> it. \u00a0 Literally.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cQuebec\u2019s chief coroner has ordered a public inquiry into the medically assisted death of a quadriplegic man after he developed a severe bedsore during a hospital stay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe decision announced Tuesday comes after Quebec\u2019s public security minister demanded an investigation into Normand Meunier\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe 66-year-old man was admitted to a hospital in Saint-J\u00e9r\u00f4me, just north of Montreal, last January. He was being treated for a respiratory illness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDuring his hospital stay, Meunier developed a major pressure sore on his buttocks. Moelle \u00e9pini\u00e8re et motricit\u00e9 Qu\u00e9bec, a group that advocates for people with spinal cord injuries and improved mobility, said the sore exposed muscle around Meunier\u2019s tailbone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn late March, he received medical assistance in dying to put an end to his suffering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018It was not his choice. He asked for medical assisted to death as a result of no choice and lack of care,\u2019 said Ariane Gauthier-Tremblay, a social worker with the advocacy group.\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;Spain has gone all in on the new panacea treatment for mental illness: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exaudi.org\/mentally-ill-people-will-be-able-to-request-euthanasia-in-spain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Ministry of Health has met with the autonomous communities to agree on the reform of the Manual of Good Practices on Euthanasia to include mental illness as a reason for requesting it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe draft of the Organic Law on the Regulation of Euthanasia (LORE) indicates that euthanasia \u2018does not exclude mental illness, allowing people with an unbearable suffering due to the presence of a mental illness to request the Aid to Dying Benefit (PAM) on equal terms with those whose suffering comes from a somatic illness\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=\"End Of Life? 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