The latest Ministry of Health reports on euthanasia raise many questions. I address four of the most critical, including that the numbers being presented, don't add up.
Great article, Simon. It is great to have some numbers to support my anti euthanasia stance. Unwanted pregnancies and diagnoses are traumatic, complex and personal. I am pro life, but think abortion should be legal, but rare. I don’t think euthanasia should be legal, but high quality palliative care must be provided.
What makes me feel physically ill is the blatant celebration of abortion and euthanasia. Whatever your position, the taking of life is not a cause for celebration.
This is more like murder but now they have a legal way of getting away with it. Our lives mean nothing. Our governments are trying to murder us through vaccines, food, water and now so called euthanasia.
Last year my FIL died. It was a gruelling three months watching him slowly die. He was in a lot of pain. He was also grumpy and very self absorbed. I helped my husband and MIL care for him everyday, attending his every need while he grumbled, yelled, hallucinated, slept and barely said a nice thing to anyone. In the end, we were glad it was all over. Not once during the whole ordeal did I wish it to end sooner for my sake or comfort. The idea never entered my head we should not be inconvenience at all for taking care of him in his last days, no matter how difficult it was. We all admitted he could've been nicer, but we were all glad for the last months and moments we had with him. I pray and hope that when my time comes, whoever is around to take care of me, will have the same attitute and not be poisoned by the idea of euthanasia and the convenience it can bring for loved ones.
sorry for your loss but also thank you for sharing. There is often very trying moments, yet also time which is so precious. Again, thanks for so generously sharing.
hi, I have two friends both signed up for assisted dying. One only a few days away which brings a lot of anxiety to all and hoping that God will take it out of her hands and take her peacefully in her sleep. I have been with this friend while she has met with two assisted dying doctors to talk and asses her needs and her stability around this decision . Many times I have discussed her final day plans with her and each time she has been firm with the date. This friend of mine is not in palliative care. She has terminal cancer , is a private person and wishes to remain in her own home until the end. She is happy that the service is available to her so she feels some sense of control in a time where she is riddled in pain and relying heavily on medication and other people. Having always been self reliant she does not wish to become bedridden and rely on paid people to shower and toilet her and she believes her quality of life is not worth continuing when she is no longer able to do the simple things we take for granted, sitting up , brushing our teeth, swallowing our food, drinks and medicine. My friend is a spiritual person and as the days grow closer and so have the family , I see my friend wish that God would take her and then she wouldnt have to feel responsible for the timing of her own exit. Yet as she is spiritual she also does not wish to suffer on and allow those who love her to be suffering on while the medication gets raised and raised and the enduring time of waiting and declining . making others have to struggle to lift and care for her and her quality of life being non exisitent to her. It is a hard converstation for sure, and the Oncology nurses visitng in home have been of an amazing service and support to my friend and myself as her carer and friend. I believe in a time when so much is taken out of our hands and control it is fair to have this time and quality of life determined by ourselves to say hey enough ... no more.
My other friend who qualified for assisted dying has extended through his two 6 month dealines which would qualified for assisted dying and he now has to enter this application all over again . not long after his years application closed he found himself in hospital hoping for the end and being frustrated that he no longer qualified to call the assisted dying doctor to peacefully end things for him. now though he seems to be fine, managing at home mostly and still not ready to call the doctor to end his time. thought provocking for sure . in my time thinking about this I have spoken to my friends and it seems a number of them think we should all be offered this service with out all of the terms of even needing to be terminally ill, a "just incase clause" just incase of an accident which would mean ongoing life support with a compromised life.... I do think as hard as it is to face our ending (so are other options ) and we should be given the right to choose.
Mary, I would let your friends know that the drugs that they use in assisted dying are the same ones given to death row inmates. They may hope for a painless death, but the reality may be very different. Below are some resources discussing some of the things that are known to have occurred for drugs used for both execution and euthanasia:
Great article, Simon. It is great to have some numbers to support my anti euthanasia stance. Unwanted pregnancies and diagnoses are traumatic, complex and personal. I am pro life, but think abortion should be legal, but rare. I don’t think euthanasia should be legal, but high quality palliative care must be provided.
What makes me feel physically ill is the blatant celebration of abortion and euthanasia. Whatever your position, the taking of life is not a cause for celebration.
Frightening Simon!
sadly, it just keeps expanding and we end up like Canada (which to me, is quite chilling).
This is more like murder but now they have a legal way of getting away with it. Our lives mean nothing. Our governments are trying to murder us through vaccines, food, water and now so called euthanasia.
Last year my FIL died. It was a gruelling three months watching him slowly die. He was in a lot of pain. He was also grumpy and very self absorbed. I helped my husband and MIL care for him everyday, attending his every need while he grumbled, yelled, hallucinated, slept and barely said a nice thing to anyone. In the end, we were glad it was all over. Not once during the whole ordeal did I wish it to end sooner for my sake or comfort. The idea never entered my head we should not be inconvenience at all for taking care of him in his last days, no matter how difficult it was. We all admitted he could've been nicer, but we were all glad for the last months and moments we had with him. I pray and hope that when my time comes, whoever is around to take care of me, will have the same attitute and not be poisoned by the idea of euthanasia and the convenience it can bring for loved ones.
sorry for your loss but also thank you for sharing. There is often very trying moments, yet also time which is so precious. Again, thanks for so generously sharing.
hi, I have two friends both signed up for assisted dying. One only a few days away which brings a lot of anxiety to all and hoping that God will take it out of her hands and take her peacefully in her sleep. I have been with this friend while she has met with two assisted dying doctors to talk and asses her needs and her stability around this decision . Many times I have discussed her final day plans with her and each time she has been firm with the date. This friend of mine is not in palliative care. She has terminal cancer , is a private person and wishes to remain in her own home until the end. She is happy that the service is available to her so she feels some sense of control in a time where she is riddled in pain and relying heavily on medication and other people. Having always been self reliant she does not wish to become bedridden and rely on paid people to shower and toilet her and she believes her quality of life is not worth continuing when she is no longer able to do the simple things we take for granted, sitting up , brushing our teeth, swallowing our food, drinks and medicine. My friend is a spiritual person and as the days grow closer and so have the family , I see my friend wish that God would take her and then she wouldnt have to feel responsible for the timing of her own exit. Yet as she is spiritual she also does not wish to suffer on and allow those who love her to be suffering on while the medication gets raised and raised and the enduring time of waiting and declining . making others have to struggle to lift and care for her and her quality of life being non exisitent to her. It is a hard converstation for sure, and the Oncology nurses visitng in home have been of an amazing service and support to my friend and myself as her carer and friend. I believe in a time when so much is taken out of our hands and control it is fair to have this time and quality of life determined by ourselves to say hey enough ... no more.
My other friend who qualified for assisted dying has extended through his two 6 month dealines which would qualified for assisted dying and he now has to enter this application all over again . not long after his years application closed he found himself in hospital hoping for the end and being frustrated that he no longer qualified to call the assisted dying doctor to peacefully end things for him. now though he seems to be fine, managing at home mostly and still not ready to call the doctor to end his time. thought provocking for sure . in my time thinking about this I have spoken to my friends and it seems a number of them think we should all be offered this service with out all of the terms of even needing to be terminally ill, a "just incase clause" just incase of an accident which would mean ongoing life support with a compromised life.... I do think as hard as it is to face our ending (so are other options ) and we should be given the right to choose.
Thanks for sharing Mary; it's appreciated.
Mary, I would let your friends know that the drugs that they use in assisted dying are the same ones given to death row inmates. They may hope for a painless death, but the reality may be very different. Below are some resources discussing some of the things that are known to have occurred for drugs used for both execution and euthanasia:
https://www.australiancarealliance.org.au/execution_and_euthanasia_can_both_be_painful_and_inhumane
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9270985/
I will pray for your friends, their families and you that this tragic end may be averted for them.