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You Don’t Want to be a Burden, Do You?
An April 13, 2018 USA Today op-ed titled “Make an End-of-life plan or Lose your Money and Choices in your Dying Days” begins with the statement “End-of-life care can bankrupt your family and rob you of choices. End the denial about dying. Make a plan in case you end up seriously ill and frail.” Ms. Bryant is very upfront about using the economic argument about aging and the enormous toll it can take financially and personally on the family as well as medical costs.
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Tagged Advance Directive, Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, End-of-life care, Hattie Bryant, New York Times, physician-assisted suicide, Richard Lamm, USA Today
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Why Is a Young Generation Opting for Death Via Suicide?”
Life is so precious, and the right to life recognized as a “natural” or God-given right, so much so that it was codified in our Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Note that the “right to life” is given preeminence: without life no other right is necessary. And “unalienable” further emphasizes the untouchable nature of that right: mankind was gifted life by its Creator — the Lord …
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Tagged agnosticism, Anne Saker, Atheism, Death With Dignity, Frank Peretti, Jayne O'Donnell, Jon Eareckson Tada, Me Before You, nones, Pew Research, physician-assisted suicide, Planned Parenthood, religiously unaffiliated, suicide, USA Today
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Six Things You Need to Know about Physician-Assisted Suicide
Is the real healthcare crisis not enough physician assisted suicide laws? Or is it the staggering and increasing number of people losing their battles with mental illness and committing suicide?
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Tenderness Leads To The Gas Chamber
“In the absence of faith, we govern by tenderness. And tenderness leads to the gas chamber,” said Flannery O’Connor. Her point was that sentimentality cannot restrain the darker forces in human nature. Which brings us to the Catholic bishops of eastern Canada.
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Neutrality Kills
In 1994, Oregon became the first state to pass a physician-assisted suicide law. This came after the Oregon Medical Association changed its position from opposition to neutrality. 21 years later and after multiple failed attempts, the California state legislature approved the latest physician-assisted suicide law after the California Medical Association changed its opposition to neutrality.
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