Washington
State Quickly Taking First Place in Promotion of Assisted Suicide...
"Who will be safe
in your land, My children? You will one day grow old. Will you be a burden to
your family, to be removed without heart? When you grow sick, you are ill, will
you become too much of a burden to your society and they will remove you?" -
Our Lady of the Roses, March 25, 1972
A dispatcher sends crisis
negotiators who, if they follow the suggestions provided at a recent
negotiators' training session, could help you consider "all
options." If you're eligible, you may be referred to friendly
volunteers who will help you find a doctor willing to prescribe a
deadly drug overdose.
Just take the prescription to a
pharmacy. Have it filled by a pharmacist who hands it to you with
instructions to "take this with a light snack and alcohol to cause
death."
But what if the pharmacy has opted
out of participation in assisted suicide?
Not to worry.
Washington pharmacies are required
to fill your prescription.
And what if you're not "qualified"
for assisted suicide under Washington's Death with Dignity Act?
No sweat. There's help for you,
too. Exit International, an equal opportunity death facilitator, has
just established its North American headquarters in Bellingham, WA.
Enter the twilight zone that is
Washington State.
Last November, Washingtonians went
to the polls and approved Initiative 1000, the Washington "Death
with Dignity Act," a law that is almost identical to Oregon's
assisted-suicide law. During the campaign, assisted-suicide
advocates assured voters that the measure, if passed, would be
solely a matter of choice for patients who wanted "aid in dying" and
that health care providers would not have to participate in it.
That was Then, This is Now
Soon after the law passed,
residents of Mount Vernon, a city north of Seattle, heard that
Skagit Valley Hospital was one of many health care institutions that
had opted out of assisted suicide. They assumed this meant their
local hospital would be an assisted-suicide-free zone. However,
while a hospital's opting out means there won't be any patients
taking the deadly overdose on the premises, it doesn't prevent
hospital staff from making referrals for help in committing suicide.
Take, for example, a recent
program held in the community. Like most jurisdictions, Mount Vernon
has a team of experienced commissioned law enforcement officers who
are highly trained crisis/hostage negotiators. To continually
enhance their life-saving skills, they have periodic training
sessions. One routine training that took place in early August
indicates how assisted-suicide promotion can permeate activities in
unexpected ways.
As part of that recent training
session, Amber Ford, a social worker from the hospital's oncology
department, presented a comprehensive two-hour discussion about the
suicide risk among cancer patients. According to one of the
attendees, her presentation was sensitive and informative. But, at
the end, a jarring note was introduced. Prefacing her comments by
explaining that she was aware of I-1000's controversial nature, Ford
explained that assisted suicide, like hospice care, was among the
alternatives available to cancer patients. And, in keeping with
providing all options now available in the state, she distributed a
brochure from Compassion & Choices (C & C), the assisted-suicide
advocacy group (formerly
called the Hemlock Society).
The brochure explains: "C & C
created the coalition that passed I-1000 into law and now stewards,
protects and upholds Washington's Death with Dignity Act. There is
never a fee for any service provided by C & C, and confidentiality
is strictly protected." A toll-free number is provided to make
access to assisted suicide only a phone call away. The brochure
notes that a C & C volunteer can help patients "locate physicians
who support a patient's choice to use the law" - in other words, to
find a doctor willing to prescribe a deadly overdose of drugs.
The irony was not lost on one
experienced negotiator in attendance:
"I find it
interesting that, as crisis negotiators, we are trying to talk
people out of killing themselves. But by the end of the afternoon,
we had a social worker from the oncology department of the
hospital talking about being able to assist people in killing
themselves."
If, indeed, part of
crisis management eventually includes offering suicide assistance,
it could lead to a rather bizarre screening process. When a 911 call
comes in, will there be an extra step in the screening process? If a
person calls, asking for help for a suicidal family member, will the
screener ask if the person is terminally ill? If not, crisis
negotiators could be dispatched to the scene. But, if the suicidal
person is terminally ill, will she be given C & C's toll free number
- so C & C could dispatch assisted-suicide facilitators?
Death from your Friendly
Pharmacist
Crisis negotiators aren't the only
professionals faced with changing expectations of their role in the
assisted-suicide-friendly state. Washington pharmacists are getting
a rude awakening as well. When the campaign for I-1000 was ongoing,
C & C assured voters that it would be completely a matter of choice
for health care providers. Because of those assurances many in the
health professions believed passage of the law would not affect
them. They bought the hype but (like members of Congress) didn't
read the bill.
It's true that the
assisted-suicide law defines a health care provider as a person who
is licensed to administer health care or dispense medication. And it
also provides immunity for those who do not participate. This led
those who own pharmacies to assume that they would not have to
dispense assisted suicide drugs.
They were wrong.
In the law, "participation" is
very narrowly defined. It only refers to those activities that
constitute the duties of the attending physician, the consulting
physician or the counselor under the law. It does not include
dispensing drugs.
Pharmacy owners who assumed they
could opt out were very much mistaken. Not only does the
assisted-suicide law not give them the right to refuse to dispense a
prescription for assisted suicide, but the Washington Administrative
Code positively requires all pharmacies to deliver and distribute
all lawfully prescribed drugs or devices to patients. That
requirement was affirmed in July when the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit in Stormans v. Selecky vacated a preliminary
injunction preventing its enforcement.
The word games continue even after
the patient dies from physician-assisted suicide. If she had taken
pills that she stockpiled on her own, her death certificate would
reflect that the cause of death was a barbiturate overdose and the
manner of death was "suicide." However, if she is a C & C
facilitated death, the state forbids any hint of that on her death
certificate.
Instructions from the Washington Department of Health make it
crystal clear that doctors, coroners and others must refer to her
underlying illness, not the drug overdose, as the cause of death and
the manner of death must be listed as "natural." According to the
Washington State Department of Health, "The cause of death section
may not contain any language that indicates that the Death with
Dignity Act was used."
Assisted-suicide advocates are
well aware that, in Washington, they've found a friendly home from
which they can expand their operations. The welcoming atmosphere has
attracted Exit International's Dr. Philip Nitschke (sometimes called
the Australian Kevorkian). During the few months in which euthanasia
and assisted suicide were legal in Australia, Nitschke was the
specialty's sole practitioner, using his "death
by laptop" method. In the past, he received funding for
development of a "peaceful pill" - the label used for a quick, sure
do-it-yourself death - from the Hemlock Society. Long a believer in
equal suicide opportunity for anyone of any age for any reason, he
has said assisted suicide should be available to
children
and teens.
Recently, Nitschke announced
establishment of a North American base in the college town of
Bellingham, WA where he plans to hold an "Exit workshop" in the
Fall, covering such topics as how to obtain end-of-life
barbiturates, how to store and test veterinary Nembutal, and how to
use helium and a plastic bag to end your life.
Move over, Holland. Move over,
Oregon. Washington State is rapidly taking over first place when it
comes to embracing the grim reaper.
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Vatican
prelate: Removal of food and hydration from Italian woman “monstrous and inhuman
murder”...
A high-level Vatican official has warned an Italian court that to
allow the removal of Eluana Englaro’s feeding tube is a “monstrous and
inhuman murder.”
Englaro, 36, was severely injured in a 1992 car accident that left
her in a state of minimal consciousness. She can, however, breathe on
her own and is not on a ventilator; her “life support” has consisted
of assisted feeding and hydration. Her father, Beppino Englaro, has
been petitioning courts to remove his daughter's assisted nutrition
and hydration since 1999.
The Court of Cassation in Rome, Italy’s highest appeals court, was
advised yesterday by Prosecutor-General (PG) Domenico Iannelli, to
“allow Eluana to die” by the removal of her food and hydration.
Javier Cardinal Lozano Barragan, however, president of the
Pontifical Council for Health, told media today that the push to
remove Eluana’s food and hydration was “a monstrosity.”
“To deprive her of water and food means to kill her. It is
inhuman,” he said.
Food and water does not belong in the category of therapy, Barragan
said. “In any case, to suspend hydration and nutrition in a patient in
a ‘vegetative state’ worsens his condition, and the terrible death by
hunger and thirst is a monstrous and inhuman murder.”
In July, a lower court ruled that Eluana could be dehydrated to
death, but the state appealed. Yesterday the court deferred its
decision. The President of the Court, Vincenzo Carbone, said the
decision “will be announced as soon as possible, given the
particularities of the case.”
Will the Catholic Church now issue a form position against vital organ donation?
New England Journal of Medicine: 'Brain death' is not death - organ donors are
alive...
"No
man shall murder--and it is murder, My children, when he shall give the
excuse of saying an individual is no longer living or a part of the world
because he has become emaciated, because he lives only with prayers and the
help of all scientific means." - Our Lady of the Roses, June 5, 1976
In an article that is sure to rock the world of organ donation, the
highly respected New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has backed up
the objections of various pro-life groups, as well as some scientists
and physicians, to certain types of organ donation which involve the
removal of vital organs from patients believed to be dead. The
problem, say the authors of the NEJM article, is that in many cases
these patients may not be dead at all.
Key experts in the medical field have, since its inception,
considered the 1968 invention of 'brain death' and the more recent
criteria of 'cardiac death' as unsupportable criteria for true death.
If it is true, however, that brain death and cardiac death are invalid
as criteria for true death, it would make morally illicit vital organ
donation, since such donation would in some cases result directly in
the killing of the donor for the purpose of harvesting his organs.
The two authors of the article in the NEJM, both proponents of
organ donation, argue that "as an ethical requirement for organ
donation, the dead donor rule has required unnecessary and
unsupportable revisions of the definition of death."
The article was co-authored by Dr. Robert D. Truog, a professor of
medical ethics and anesthesia (pediatrics) in the Departments of
Anesthesia and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the
Division of Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston and
Dr. Franklin G. Miller, a faculty member in the Department of
Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
The many cases hitting the media of patients pronounced 'brain
dead' and living to tell their stories have already led the public to
question the notion of 'brain death'. A recent case in France where a
patient revived on the operating table as surgeons were about to
remove his organs, is only the latest in a string of such events.
(see:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08061308.html )
Troug and Miller, after admitting that the scientific literature
does not support the criteria for 'brain death' and 'cardiac death' as
being real death, suggest instead that ethicists should simply remove
the requirement for dead donors. "The uncomfortable conclusion to be
drawn from this literature is that although it may be perfectly
ethical to remove vital organs for transplantation from patients who
satisfy the diagnostic criteria of brain death, the reason it is
ethical cannot be that we are convinced they are really dead," they
write.
Similarly they note that with 'cardiac death', "although it may be
ethical to remove vital organs from these patients, we believe that
the reason it is ethical cannot convincingly be that the donors are
dead." Troug and Miller suggest that, rather than insisting on dead
donors, "ethical requirements of organ donation" should be looked at
"in terms of valid informed consent under the limited conditions of
devastating neurologic injury."
However, the dead donor criteria is precisely the thing that most
moral ethicists agree makes it ethical to remove vital organs for
transplant. Doing otherwise would constitute actively killing a person
via removal of their vital organs.
In his August 29, 2000 address to the 18th International Congress
of the Transplantation Society, Pope John Paul II stressed: "vital
organs which occur singly in the body can be removed only after death,
that is from the body of someone who is certainly dead." He added:
"This requirement is self-evident, since to act otherwise would mean
intentionally to cause the death of the donor in disposing of his
organs." (see the full address here:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2000... )
Now that a prominent medical journal has come out and stated that
brain death and cardiac death are invalid criteria for true death,
some are hoping that the Catholic Church, which has not issued a
formal position on vital organ donation, will officially come out in
opposition to the practice - a practice which takes place in many
Catholic hospitals throughout the world.
"The setting out of these facts should by all rights lead to a
cessation of complete removal of any vital organ at Catholic
hospitals", said Dr. John Shea, medical consultant to LifeSiteNews.com,
who has written extensively on the subject of organ donation.
"And
I repeat again to all clergy in My Son's House: you shall not
rationalize sin. Abortion is murder, and murder condemns you to hell
without repentance! Euthanasia is murder, and murder condemns you to
hell without repentance! The Commandments of your God must be followed,
and no changes will be made upon them to suit the basic fallen nature of
mankind." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 20, 1979
There are four sins that cry out to Heaven for
vengeance
(extreme punishment):
1) Willful murder. 2) The sin of Sodom. 3)
Oppression of the poor. 4) Defrauding the laborer of his wages.
Euthanasia, abortion, physician-assisted suicide, mercy
killing, and homosexuality cry out to Heaven for extreme punishment on the
United States.
Many
people are ignorant of the Church's teaching regarding ordinary nursing care
towards extremely ill or terminally ill patients. The Church states that
"decisions about these patients should be guided by a presumption in favor of
medically-assisted nutrition and hydration” and that for patients, even in
an irreversible coma, "all care should be lavished on
him, including feeding."
Pope John Paul II, March
20, 2004:
The Holy Father emphasized that water and food, even when administered
artificially, are "a natural means of preserving life, not a medical
procedure. Therefore, their use must be considered ordinary and appropriate and
as such, morally obligatory."
The probability that there is little hope for recovery, "when the
vegetative state lasts longer than a year, cannot ethically justify abandoning
or interrupting basic care, including food and hydration, of a patient."
Death by starvation or dehydration carried out "consciously or deliberately is
truly euthanasia by omission."
The Pope recalled the "moral principal according to which even the
slightest doubt of being in the presence of a person who is alive requires full
respect and prohibits any action that would anticipate his or her death. . The
value of the life of a man cannot be subjected to the judgement of quality
expressed by other men; it is necessary to promote positive activities to
counteract pressure for the suspension of food and hydration, as a means to
putting an end to the life of these patients."
Bishop Henry
Gracida (interview
with Barbara Kralis) "Some Catholics would argue that they are simply
following their conscience and that the Church allows them to do so. They choose
to forget that the Church says that one can only safely follow an INFORMED
CONSCIENCE, i.e., a conscience that has been formed and illuminated by the
teachings of the Church. The Church has given clear and explicit guidelines
regarding the removal of a feeding tube through which 'nutrition and hydration'
is supplied to a sick person.
"All persons who wish to remain in communion with the Catholic Church, to
receive Holy Communion and the other Sacraments, must assent to the teachings of
the Church in matters of faith and morals.
[3] "If a person supports euthanasia and assisted-suicide through the
illicit rejection or removal of a feeding tube, they are not in communion with
the Church. They have separated themselves from the Church."
Pontifical Council on Health Affairs, “Cor Unum,” June 27, 1981:
“On the contrary, there remains the strict obligation to continue by all
means those measures which are called ‘minimal’, which are intended normally and
customarily for the maintenance of life (alimentation, blood transfusions,
injections, etc.). To interrupt these minimal measures would be equivalent, in
practice, to wishing to put an end to the life of the patient.”
Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 1985: “If the patient is in a permanent coma, irreversible as far as it can
be foreseen, treatment is not required,but all care should be
lavished on him, including feeding... If treatment is of no
benefit to the patient, it may be interrupted while continuing with the care
of the patient.”
U.S.
Bishops, Nutrition and Hydration: Moral and Pastoral Reflections: ”Therefore we are gravely concerned about current attitudes and
policy trends in our society that would too easily dismiss patients without
apparent mental faculties as non-persons or as undeserving of human care and
concern. In this climate, even legitimate moral arguments intended to have a
careful and limited application can easily be misinterpreted, broadened, and
abused by others to erode respect for the lives of some of our society’s most
helpless members. In light of these concerns, it is our considered judgment that
while legitimate Catholic moral debate continues, decisions about these
patients should be guided by a presumption in favor of medically-assisted
nutrition and hydration.”
New
Jersey Catholic Conference, January 22, 1987: Another pertinent statement regarding the nutrition/hydration debate
was given by the New Jersey Catholic Conference on January 22, 1987 in a
friend-of-the-court brief entitled, “Providing Food and Fluids to Severely Brain
Damaged Patients.” This document was in reaction to the Nancy Ellen Jobes case
pending at the time before the New Jersey Court:
"The [New Jersey Catholic] Conference maintains that
nutrition and hydration, being basic to human life, are aspects of normal
care, which are not excessively burdensome, that should always be provided to
a patient. Nutrition and hydration are clearly distinguished from medical
treatment. Medical treatment is aimed at curing a disease. Nutrition and
hydration are directed at sustaining life. Medical treatment is therapeutic;
nutrition and hydration are not, because they will not cure any disease. For
that fundamental reason we insist that nutrition and hydration must always be
maintained....” (Origins, January 22, 1987, p. 583)
"Who will
be safe in your land, My children? You will one day grow old. Will you be a
burden to your family, to be removed without heart? When you grow sick, you
are ill, will you become too much of a burden to your society and they will
remove you?" - Our Lady of the Roses, March 25, 1972
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EUTHANASIA “The time will come, My child, when those who are upon the earth will envy
those have passed beyond the veil. Insanity, sin. Sin is insanity. The aged will
be put to death, the crippled will be put to death, the mentally ill will be
eliminated. The value of life will be gone. The value for life will be
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souls!” – Jesus, March 18, 1974
TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
"No man shall murder--and it is murder, My children, when he shall give the
excuse of saying an individual is no longer living or a part of the world
because he has become emaciated, because he lives only with prayers and the help
of all scientific means. The Eternal Father has placed a soul in that body. That
body is the temple of the Holy Spirit! No man can know when that soul must
return to the Eternal Father. No man shall hasten its exit from a body by
murder! Euthanasia is murder! Shall you become a judge over the living and the
dead?" - Our Lady, June 5, 1976
CONDEMNS
TO HELL
"And I repeat again to all clergy in My Son's House: you shall not rationalize
sin. Abortion is murder, and murder condemns you to hell without repentance!
Euthanasia is murder, and murder condemns you to hell without repentance! The
Commandments of your God must be followed, and no changes will be made upon them
to suit the basic fallen nature of mankind.
"The road to Heaven, My children, is a narrow one; too few stay upon it.
For they are often carried away with the cares of the world, and the pleasures
of the materialistic pursuits, and their gathering of money and prestige and
power. For what? For the few short years allotted to each human upon earth. I
ask you to ask yourself: is it worth it to lose your soul? Many will sell their
souls to get to the head." - Our Lady, November 20, 1979
START AND
EXPIRATION OF LIFE
"The Eternal Father is much distressed by mankind's actions. They must not try
to control the start and expiration of a life. Abortion is murder, My children,
for you bring to an untimely end a mission of a soul. The Eternal Father
breathes the spirit of life into the body at the moment of conception. No man
shall destroy this body until it has completed its mission as directed by the
Eternal Father, for any man who destroys the mission and the body is guilty of
murder. Euthanasia, untimely death, My children, man has transgressed into a
form of evil far worse than in the time of Noe or Sodom. Therefore, how great
shall be the punishment to mankind!" - Our Lady, June 12, 1976
GREAT CHASTISEMENT
"My child and My children, the murders of the unborn will bring great
chastisement upon the United States, Canada, and the nations of the world, that
are now contributing not only to the delinquency of your children and the
world's children, but are condoning murder and euthanasia. Euthanasia, My child
and My children, is murder!
"We have been very patient. The Eternal Father has voiced His decision
within My hearing, and I tell you, My children, your chastisement is just at
hand." - Jesus, July 1, 1985
DOCTORS OF THE EARTH "I have, O woe to man, this saddest of
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daughter, father against son, in the battle of the spirits. Now, O poor aged and
helpless, poor on earth, you will now be victims of your own. Doctors of the
earth, what have you done to yourselves in your practices? You do not seek to
preserve life, but to destroy.” – Our Lady, March 18, 1973
Cardinal Pell calls for "whole new form"
of democracy and asks: "Does democracy need abortion, euthanasia and
pornography to be democratic?"
https://www.tldm.org/news7/pell2.htm
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