CFP:
“During a special session to address Medicaid shortfalls, legislators pushed a bill designed to kill people,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “It seems clear that a session devoted to help people receive medical care so they can live is incompatible with a bill to facilitate their death. Special sessions are just that – a session devoted to a specific topic. Since the assisted death bill was not part of the session addressing Medicaid, the judge correctly ruled it was improperly passed,” said Staver. Story
You first Jerry.
Speaking of wanting to blow your brains out, in memory of missing in action “Africa Bob” I give you this one…
http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/feds-drop-bombshell-comey-lynch-colluded-entrap-wiretap-trump/
Are we looking at the soon to be Arkancides up and coming?
Well we can put our pets down to stop them from suffering.So on this one thing I’m a libertarian on.With all the pain suffering folks have no help with Its wrong to make people have to suffer
Elsewhere, we see the left peddling gun control to drive down “gun death” statistics, which are dominated by suicides. Does the government want fewer suicides, or more? Does the left think people have a right to kill themselves, or not?
Isn’t assisted suicide what California is doing already?
Moonbeam’s doctor shined a light down Moonbeam’s throat, saw light coming out both ears. Doctor suggested Moonbeam call Biden to see if Biden’s doctor ever figured out what was wrong. Biden said he did not have a clue.
I’m a libertarian as well but can’t get behind assisted suicide. In hospice I occasionally get requests to help, usually from the family and not the patient, so the issue is that the family suffers from watching the decline and maybe even suffering of a loved one. I’m a palliative care specialist. I can assure you, anyone who is suffering likely has a physician who hasn’t tried hard enough to alleviate their suffering because symptom management just isn’t in their wheelhouse and they don’t know who to refer the patient to for that service. Not alot of palliative care programs out there. I have encountered one person for whom utterly massive amounts of various pain medications did not work (actually a genetic liver issue) and some people for whom terminal sedation is in fact needed but I think putting someone down like a dog before trying a comprehensive palliative approach is extremely premature. Why not create more palliative programs rather than Hemlock societies???
I’m sure Medicare and Medicaid would just LOVE to crank up the Solyent Green facility though, for people who have gone from contributing taxpayer to benefit seeker. These agencies LOVE the idea of one citizen in need of services that requires twelve people to administer them from a state and federal jobs perspective but when the rubber hits the road all you hear is their pissing and moaning. There’s enough money to pay the bureaucrat salaries but not enough for the actual care of the one citizen.
My rant, from spending my days in hospice with families suffering in the thick of this.
Nobody wants to see the suffering but life in today’s world has been cheapened enough, The very last thing this society needs is the government participating in these kinds of decisions. Think about some of Obama’s statements regarding this issue and it should chill most thinking people.
There is already assisted suicide. It’s called a GUN.
That’s too bad, if anybody needs to commit suicide it’s that worthless commie POS gov. jerry “Pot Hole” brown! I know they like to call him Moonbeam, but I just drove up I-5 and that asshole needed to invest money on road maintenance not some fukin’ worthless highspeed train nobody will ride
. That road damn near beat my motorhome to bits! I would love to be able to piss on that assholes grave!
@ Hoo Hoo- thank you for you well thought out put together post. That said have you had to watch a loved one suffer? It’s not the same as seeing a patient.
One needs to experience seeing someone that you love die, over a period of time, from something such as cancer. Seeing this helps to be able to provide an opinion on this one.
My entire family ‘watched’ a friend of 47 years pass away slowly who was buried this past weekend.
I am more on natural IN and natural OUT kinda of guy, BUT we do sometimes ‘have to’, for whatever reason, put our beloved pets(aka family members to some) so…why is is ‘good’ for them and not US?? Did my friend suffer? Yes but to what degree that warrants pulling the plug? Did her ‘quality of life’ suck? MAJOR yes.
Yeah, this IS one of those deep ones…
@ Doc sympathies to your RV!
Ghost of CJG- thank you for your reply as well. These are the discussions that most people turn away from simply because of how much it hurts to have.
Yes, I have cared for loved ones as well as randomly assigned “patients”. Naturally, friends and family reach out to me as a support when the time comes simply due to my experience . Sometimes they ask if I’d be willing, sometimes I’m “volun-told” to take care of them. It’s all the same to me, I’m honored to be called.
And I see it all, how badly cancer, heart disease, COPD, Alzheimers, stroke can slowly destroy body and mind and soul and family. I know in explicit excruciating detail how multi-system organ failure occurs, and how it impacts people witnessing it.
And even though I’ve been at this 7 years now, the tidal wave of grief and horror will hit me out of nowhere. Very unpredictable. Can be with a complete stranger but not with my favorite Aunt who was my hero. Can be because of my beautiful friend who died far too young as well as the homeless junkie dying from self destruction. I like to think the unpredictable nature of this random lightning bolt of perspective is God’s way of keeping me in the game. If it ever stops hurting, it’s absolutely time for me to bow out. But I love helping families navigate what is essentially one of the worst periods of their lives, so that they are not alone.