First Washington Legal Assisted Suicide: Compassion and Choices Immediately Issues Press Release
The first Washington State legal assisted suicide has happened. C and C, of course, promptly issued a press release. From the story:
The woman, Linda Fleming, 66, of Sequim, Wash., on the Olympic Peninsula, died Thursday evening after taking lethal medication prescribed by a doctor under the law, according to a news release by the group, Compassion and Choices of Washington. The release said the woman received a diagnosis of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer a month ago, and “she was told she was actively dying.”Often early pain control can cause these symptoms, but as the body acclimates, often more cogency returns.
Ms. Fleming was quoted in the release as saying: "I am a very spiritual person, and it was very important to me to be conscious, clear-minded and alert at the time of my death. The powerful pain medications were making it difficult to maintain the state of mind I wanted to have at my death."
Be that as it may, once again we see that assisted suicide isn't about suffering that can't otherwise be alleviated. That is just the baloney C and C slices to sell the agenda. If Oregon is the template, once people have swallowed the hemlock, that justification evaporates into the ether as the death group facilitates the overwhelming majority of the hastened life endings regardless of the potential for effective palliation and available interventions that can help with the important issues of emotional distress and mental health.
Labels: Assisted Suicide. Compassion and Choices. Washington State.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 2:01 PM
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3 Comments:
Poor woman. It makes me angry that such people aren't being given access to medications that can really help with the pain and allow them to maintain their cognition.
The culture of death is taking a particular toll on women. Popular culture tells us we have to be young-looking, beautiful, thin, and sexually engaging. We're told that we should give in to our urges but not try to "tie men down" by expecting relationships with people we have sex with, that we should abort babies if they're "inconvinent," and that we should die before we become a burden on the children we *do* have. Society preys on women's sentimentality, desire for love and affection, and our fears of rejection. If we don't die when we're told, we'll be rejected. That's the same thing as, If we don't have sex when we're told, we'll be rejected.
That a spiritual woman is told she has to be cognent when she dies tells me that she's been fed a load of bull - that her death isn't "good" unless she dies the way people *tell* her is good.
But what can you expect from a society where it's perfectly legal for a woman to be fired from her job if she doesn't wear makeup?
T.E. You can expect it to continue having "benefits" to support "the search for cures" where everyone gets dressed up and has a good time and pats themselves on the back and wears those stinking red and pink ribbons and no one ever says a word about or even gives a thought to the suffering of laboratory animals at the hands of ambitious researchers who would come up with "cures" a lot faster if not doing it didn't keep the money rolling in. How women are treated is similar in many ways to how non-human animals are treated. Good job!
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