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"Civilized" Dutch Doctors legally and secretly place sedatives in their food, then Euthanize patients with Dementia
Dec 1, 2020 03:44:29   #
Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...
 
The Choice of Life or Death:

"I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)


Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Wednesday, November 30, 2020

In a decision that is drawing widespread criticism from ethicists, a Netherlands medical committee has changed its code of practice to allow doctors to slip sedatives into the food or drink of patients with dementia before they are euthanized so as to prevent them from becoming “disturbed, agitated or aggressive.”

The change in rules by the Netherlands review committee for euthanasia comes after the country’s Supreme Court ruled in April that a doctor who carried out assisted suicide on a 74-year-old patient with Alzheimer’s did not commit murder by placing a sedative into the patient’s coffee.

The patient woke up and had to be held down by her daughter and husband, the BBC reported. The patient previously had written a statement saying she “wanted to be euthanized before entering a care home, but adding that she wanted to decide ‘while still in my senses and when I think the time is right,’” the BBC said.

The new rules say it “is not necessary for the doctor to agree with the patient on the time or manner in which euthanasia will be performed,” according to The Guardian.

Jacob Kohnstamm, the chairman of the euthanasia review committee, said doctors “now have less to worry about putting their own necks in a noose with euthanasia. They need to less fear justice. ...Or for the review committee.”

But many doctors and ethicists disagree with the concept. More than 200 Dutch doctors previously signed an ad saying they opposed the idea of “secretly” sedating patients in order to euthanize them, The Guardian said.

Ethicist Wesley J. Smith criticized the new rule, saying a doctor should not be able to decide “why and when” a patient dies.

“This is par for the Dutch course,” Smith wrote at National Review.com. “The response to an egregious abuse isn’t to rein in illegal practice and stop further wrongdoing but to expand and legalize it and make it right.

“Once a society accepts killing as an acceptable response to human suffering,” Smith wrote, “there are no outer boundaries limiting where the killing will ultimately go.

Those with eyes to see, let them see.”

In the United States:

Eight (8) states (CA, CO, HI, ME, NJ, OR, VT, and WA) and DC now have legalized physician-assisted suicide via legislation.

One (1) state (MT) has legal physician-assisted suicide via court ruling.



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Dec 1, 2020 05:01:58   #
Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...
 
Within the wisdom of God's Word is a further emphasis of what it means to lack spiritual sight - for our nation, for the nations of the earth, and for each of us as individuals:

"They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house."
Mark 8:18

"Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your vision is clear, your whole body also is full of light. But when it is poor, your body is full of darkness."
Luke 11:34

"But if your vision is poor, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"
Matthew 6:23:

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Dec 1, 2020 06:00:09   #
Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall
 
Zemirah wrote:
The Choice of Life or Death:

"I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)


Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Wednesday, November 30, 2020

In a decision that is drawing widespread criticism from ethicists, a Netherlands medical committee has changed its code of practice to allow doctors to slip sedatives into the food or drink of patients with dementia before they are euthanized so as to prevent them from becoming “disturbed, agitated or aggressive.”

The change in rules by the Netherlands review committee for euthanasia comes after the country’s Supreme Court ruled in April that a doctor who carried out assisted suicide on a 74-year-old patient with Alzheimer’s did not commit murder by placing a sedative into the patient’s coffee.

The patient woke up and had to be held down by her daughter and husband, the BBC reported. The patient previously had written a statement saying she “wanted to be euthanized before entering a care home, but adding that she wanted to decide ‘while still in my senses and when I think the time is right,’” the BBC said.

The new rules say it “is not necessary for the doctor to agree with the patient on the time or manner in which euthanasia will be performed,” according to The Guardian.

Jacob Kohnstamm, the chairman of the euthanasia review committee, said doctors “now have less to worry about putting their own necks in a noose with euthanasia. They need to less fear justice. ...Or for the review committee.”

But many doctors and ethicists disagree with the concept. More than 200 Dutch doctors previously signed an ad saying they opposed the idea of “secretly” sedating patients in order to euthanize them, The Guardian said.

Ethicist Wesley J. Smith criticized the new rule, saying a doctor should not be able to decide “why and when” a patient dies.

“This is par for the Dutch course,” Smith wrote at National Review.com. “The response to an egregious abuse isn’t to rein in illegal practice and stop further wrongdoing but to expand and legalize it and make it right.

“Once a society accepts killing as an acceptable response to human suffering,” Smith wrote, “there are no outer boundaries limiting where the killing will ultimately go.

Those with eyes to see, let them see.”

In the United States:

Eight (8) states (CA, CO, HI, ME, NJ, OR, VT, and WA) and DC now have legalized physician-assisted suicide via legislation.

One (1) state (MT) has legal physician-assisted suicide via court ruling.
The Choice of Life or Death: br br "I call h... (show quote)


I'll take euthanasia over dementia in a home any day...

Same with most of my family...

Hope they sedate me with whisky🥃🥃

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Dec 1, 2020 07:13:14   #
Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...
 
...spoken in youthful exuberance, Canuckus (I politely refrain from calling it ignorance).

"So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90:10)

Every day of life is a precious gift from God.

Our life is entrusted to us by God, and just as with any gift, it can be wasted or squandered, - or it can be used for its intended purpose, which is to glorify Him.
Whatever we choose to do with our lives, it really does matter to God.

There is great variation in degrees of dementia, and even those suffering from advanced Alzheimers have lucid moments when they are able to recognize and converse with loved ones.

The example given of arbitrarily putting to death a woman who was still capable of deciding for herself when she would choose to have such a procedure, - but was denied that choice, was clearly legalized murder (as is all euthanasia by the state, in God's eyes).

"All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be."
(Psalm 139:16)

The scriptures tell us God has numbered our days, our times are appointed, and at some preordained moment and hour, we are each going to die.

One day we will each stand before Christ, and will give an account of his/her life. There is no amount of earthly money, fame or power with which we can alter this fact.



Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
I'll take euthanasia over dementia in a home any day...

Same with most of my family...

Hope they sedate me with whisky🥃🥃

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Dec 1, 2020 13:13:03   #
Rose42
 
This is crazy but I can’t say I’m surprised at this evil. Its sad what this world is coming to even though we knew it was coming.

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Dec 1, 2020 18:24:10   #
Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall
 
Zemirah wrote:
...spoken in youthful exuberance, Canuckus (I politely refrain from calling it ignorance).

"So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90:10)

Every day of life is a precious gift from God.

Our life is entrusted to us by God, and just as with any gift, it can be wasted or squandered, - or it can be used for its intended purpose, which is to glorify Him.
Whatever we choose to do with our lives, it really does matter to God.

There is great variation in degrees of dementia, and even those suffering from advanced Alzheimers have lucid moments when they are able to recognize and converse with loved ones.

The example given of arbitrarily putting to death a woman who was still capable of deciding for herself when she would choose to have such a procedure, - but was denied that choice, was clearly legalized murder (as is all euthanasia by the state, in God's eyes).

"All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be."
(Psalm 139:16)

The scriptures tell us God has numbered our days, our times are appointed, and at some preordained moment and hour, we are each going to die.

One day we will each stand before Christ, and will give an account of his/her life. There is no amount of earthly money, fame or power with which we can alter this fact.
...spoken in youthful exuberance, Canuckus (I poli... (show quote)


Thanks... I don't get called youthful much anymore... Although the term ignorant gets thrown around more often then I care for


I watched my grandfather descend into dementia... It wasn't pretty and the last three years involved no lucidity at all...

I'm not alone in this... My family has discussed it at length and we are aware of our various desires should tell time come..

I often wonder if dementia is not exacerbated by the isolation factor that many homes present... One of the less savory aspects of our "progress" as a species...

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Dec 2, 2020 03:06:37   #
Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...
 
It's not so much surprising as fulfillment of God's Word, for we were forewarned of those in the End Times who would be consumed with evil.

We see within so many of those in power today, in all professional fields, those characteristics as described in Paul's 1st century prophesy addressed to Timothy:

2 Timothy 3:2-5:

“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”

“Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,”

“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;”

“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”



Rose42 wrote:
This is crazy but I can’t say I’m surprised at this evil. Its sad what this world is coming to even though we knew it was coming.

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Dec 2, 2020 04:12:28   #
Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...
 
"Ignorant," even if it had been applied, would be a term of endearment, Canuckus, as, unlike stupidity, it can be remedied, by acquiring additional knowledge and/or experience.

Rather than looking at the personal views of any one family, I was expressing the viewpoint, as I understand it, of God's Word, as it relates to a macro-view (the big picture) of society-at-large.

In Mark 7:10-13, Jesus rebuked the Pharisees, by saying: "For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is 'Corban”’ (that is, given to God, as an offering) -
12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

Proverbs 23:25
"Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice."

IMHO, sending elderly parents away to a Home for Seniors, to be cared for by strangers is truly an abomination of our modern "materialistic" age.

During a bygone era in this country, a time of more devout Christianity, and of larger families, suggesting to those earlier generations that they should forego the responsibility of caring for their own parents would have been labeled both a disgrace and an insult.

1 Timothy 5:8, "But those who won't care for their relatives, especially those in their own household, have denied the true faith. Such people are worse than unbelievers."

Personal sacrifice, as it applies to multi-generational family, is now, as often as not, labeled "co-dependence," as though it were a character flaw.

Proverbs 23:22
"Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old."



Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Thanks... I don't get called youthful much anymore... Although the term ignorant gets thrown around more often then I care for


I watched my grandfather descend into dementia... It wasn't pretty and the last three years involved no lucidity at all...

I'm not alone in this... My family has discussed it at length and we are aware of our various desires should tell time come..

I often wonder if dementia is not exacerbated by the isolation factor that many homes present... One of the less savory aspects of our "progress" as a species...
Thanks... I don't get called youthful much anymor... (show quote)

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