which I mentioned today in my diary entry on him (q.v.) explains his attitude on this.

“Complete Lives” is the Orwellian/Huxleyan term for his view.

See:

http://www.redstate.com/ausonius/

There is a BIG difference between scheduling an appointment to discuss “Death with Dignity” and having a HCP discuss creating an “advanced medical directive” or “living will”.

Dying with dignity means refusing a blindfold, not meekly accepting the dictates of ones betters.

What a dolt.

A wishful-thinking dolt.

IIRC, it’s been voted out of 2 of the 3 committees it has to traverse. It has not “recently passed the House”.

That the town hall meet ups have taught me is how uninformed the congressional clunkers really are, and how lacking in reading comprehension they seem to be.

I assume they thought there were not Americans left who could read and comprehend the gobble gook in the House bill. They were wring. Maybe that’s why they want to kill off the old folks.

Not an expert on the topic, but I would tend to think that providing advice on a living will or health care directive for compensation, would violate the laws of more than a handful of states.

Yes?

Sounds like doctors who do this will need another layer of malpractice insurance.

One can understand a lot about liberals by merely observing the various ways they try to practice animal husbandry on human beings.

From making sure we eat our spinach to euthanizing us when we’ve “outlived our usefulness,” the Democrats are always thinking of us as barnyard animals.

Emmanuel’s article in the Lancet was an evaluation of the varied ethical considerations attendant to medical treatment in the face of insufficient, or even scarce, resources.

But among the eight applications that he discussed, he never addressed the single, most important ethical consideration – that all life is precious. Every consideration that he made had the underlying premise of someone making a value judgment to the worth of the life of the person confronting the doctor. Every one of them was an attempt to bring a rationalized answer to the question “is this person worth it?”

Every one of his considerations deemed some lives to be more valuable than others. And this value was determined by social worth and social investment. It really had nothing to do with life as life; only life as social worth. Life, per se, is not of any value in and of itself, he proclaims.

That assignment of lesser worth is the fundamental rationale for every genocide, for every enslavement, for every denial of equal right. If you do not have equal worth, you do not have equal rights. It is just that simple. Mr. Emmanuel’s arguments work as nicely for someone who wishes to justify slavery, or untermenschen, or caste. And that (yes, ex-Gov. Palin) is evil.

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

What words do these people not understand??? Life is God given, unalienable not to be taken away from anyone … not Terri Shiavo, not babies in the wombs, not the elderly at the end of their lives. It is the most personal thing a human being can own, and only they can decide when to give up…not their husband, nor their children nor their siblings…no one. Respect for that right for every individual should be basic to a decent society. those societies that have no regard for all life represent the very worst in us.

Obama’s is duplicitous, he lies and then denies what he said. He certainly does mean to make decisions or nondeicisons about all of our lives. He has not respect or caring for our fundamental rights as Americans.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas

has dropped like a stone. And I heard today Obama flat-out lied, saying that the bill does not allow payment for abortions.

Unless the bill restricts abortion funding, then it is allowed. And this guy has a law degree and a phalanx of legal advisors. Almost makes me believe he’s lying in order to get passage. Nah that couldn’t be it.

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