culture of death watch

from secondhand smoke:

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And now, Suicide Prevention Week has come and almost gone, without making a sound. Indeed, I wouldn’t have known that tomorrow is Suicide Prevention Day but for an excellent blog post by Not Dead Yet’s Steve Drake. From”Why Is There So Much Suicide Promotion During Suicide Prevention Week?”

You’d never know it’s National Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 4 – 10), or that Saturday, Sept. 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day. But then again, as I’ve written before, it’s been increasingly clear that the Suicide Prevention Community has washed its hands of old, ill and disabled people – and surrendered at risk individuals in those groups to suicide and euthanasia advocacy groups.

Who can deny it? Pro suicide billboards are almost as common as anti. The late Jack Kevorkian has been lionized in some of the most blatant historical revisionism since Stalin air brushed Trotsky out of the history of the Bolshevik Revolution. How to commit suicide books are sold in bookstores and assisted suicide advocacy groups are treated with respect, bordering on awe, by many in the media, to the point that the anti doctor prescribed death side’s perspectives often aren’t included in stories about the issue. And when government promotes suicide prevention, it remains silent about assisted suicide advocacy.

In the UK, prosecutors routinely shrug at blatant assisted suicides. For pay suicide clinics have become magnets to the suicidal ill, disabled, and elderly in Switzerland. Meanwhile, some mental health professionals promote the odious notion of “rational suicide,” in which the psychologist or psychiatrists are told not to be judgmental about suicide. A Vermont newspaper has promoted assisted suicide as a way to help pay for the state’s new single payer health plan. Family members support the suicides of their elderly loved ones’, and proudly proclaim their role in their deaths to the media. We are developing, nay already have become, a pro suicide culture.

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And now the very pro euthanasia Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) has stated that all doctors have a professional duty to be complicit in euthanasia–either by killing legally qualified patients directly who ask, or if they don’t want to do the deed personally, by referring suicidal patients to a death doctor who they know will kill. From “The Role of the Physician in the Voluntary Termination of Life” position paper:

Patients, too, often have difficulty telling a physician they have an authentic wish to die. Physicians, for their part, are under an obligation to take such requests seriously. This also means that if a physician cannot or does not wish to honour a patient’s request for euthanasia or assisted suicide he must give the patient a timely and clear explanation of why, and furthermore must then refer or transfer the patient to another physician in good time. Vague promises, failure to transfer patients during absences, causing delays or indicating at a late stage or too late that the physician has reconsidered his decision to perform the euthanasia all demonstrate a lack of professionalism. The KNMG therefore calls on all physicians to act as they would wish themselves or their loved ones to be treated.

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for years I wrote futile letters to the editor prophecizing and objecting to those pushing these things quietly in medical journals...I knew most docs didn't read the article or ignored the trends.

But of course, medical schools were indoctrinating the students with the ideology, and the increase in women students (who often came from upper middle class pro abortion liberal homes) will make it easier to push these ideas.

I was lower class in medical school, and stubborn enough not to "go along" with the pro abortion issues, but I saw how most of my classmates "changed their minds" under pressure. So I am not optimistic.

Maybe I'll just stay here in the Philippines where I only have to worry about earthquakes, floods, typhoons, and Dengue fever...