Charlie Gard: A Society Which Loses its Humanity, Loses its Soul

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abortion, ACA, Barack Obama, Britain, Charlie Gard, death panels, EU, Euthanasia, NHS, Obamacare, sarah palin, Terri Schiavo

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Recently, William McGurn of the WSJ, wrote a thoughtful and compassionate article regarding the situation of Charlie Gard. WSJ has a paywall, here is another source:
I agreed 100% with Mr. McGurn’s perspective, and had some additional thoughts/perspective to add regarding this tragic story.

Let’s go back to 1930’s Germany. Hitler went through the hospitals and killed the old, the sick, the infirm, and the disabled. Family and friends of loved ones who they expected to return home or at least be cared for in the health institutions of that era, never saw them again. Essentially, the “undesirables” of society ended up as part of the millions killed in the Holocaust. Too few people study Germany and the changes in her cultural institutions before World War II, but that’s critical to ultimately understanding the onset of that war. Germany had to be groomed by Hitler in the 1930’s to pave the way for his plans of taking over Europe and initiating/completing his “Final Solution.” Those plans included not only Jews, but the weak, disabled, elderly and his political opponents.

Charlie Gard’s story gives us a glimpse of this same pathway. Britain’s National Health Service has been set up to “own” the individual – whether child or adult. When Charlie was born and had to be placed in neonatal intensive care, the NHS terminated the parental rights of Charlie’s parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard. The parents have spent precious months fighting for the right to take the baby out of the NHS and come to America where a physician was willing to try an experimental treatment. In baby Charlie’s case, it wasn’t even about money because the parents had independently raised the necessary funds, but it is/was about who has the RIGHT to determine what was best for Charlie.

The parents wanted to try anything possible to save his life – the State decided nothing was possible and took all control of Charlie away from Connie and Chris. This is what happens in a State controlled health service. The parents appealed to the European Union’s High Court, and the decision of the UK Court AND the National Health Service was upheld. Considering what is happening in the Netherlands – their open and almost gleeful embrace of euthanasia, assisted suicide – the EU Court siding with Britain’s NHS is no surprise. Read another WSJ article, “In the Netherlands, the Doctor Will Kill You Now” by Kees van der Staaij[…]

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Sex abuse victim ends life under Dutch euthanasia law due to incurable post-traumatic stress and other conditions

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Euthanasia, post-traumatic stress disorder, Sexual Assault

 

A Dutch woman in her mid-20’s suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other conditions because of sexual abuse she endured as a child ended her life under Holland’s euthanasia laws.

You cannot make this stuff up.

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Daily Mail

A former victim of child sex abuse has ended her life under Dutch euthanasia laws because she could not live with her mental suffering.

The woman, in her twenties, was given a lethal injection after doctors and psychiatrists decided that her post-traumatic stress disorder and other conditions were incurable.

It went ahead despite improvements in the woman’s psychological condition after ‘intensive therapy’ two years ago, and even though doctors in the Netherlands accept that a demand for death from a psychiatric patient may be no more than a cry for help.

The woman, who has not been named, began to suffer from mental disorders 15 years ago following sexual abuse, according to the papers released by the Dutch Euthanasia Commission. The timescale means she was abused between the ages of five and 15.

News of her death angered anti-euthanasia MPs and disability campaigners in Britain. One Labour MP said it meant sex abuse victims were now being punished with death….

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Nothing short of tragic.

 

Belgium Approves Measure Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Children

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Belgium, children, Euthanasia

LIFE NEWS

The Belgian Parliament voted today to extend euthanasia to children with disabilities, in a move pro-life advocates worldwide had been fearing would come and expand an already much-abused euthanasia law even further.

The 86-44 vote Thursday in the House of Representatives, with 12 abstentions, followed approval by the Belgian Senate in December. No age limit would be set, but the children who are euthanized would have ‘to possess the capacity of discernment.’

The legislation permits a child to request euthanasia, with the consent of his parents, if there is a terminal diagnosis accompanied by great pain with no available treatment options. The measure also extends euthanasia to persons suffering with dementia and Alzheimer’s. Religious and family groups are criticizing the push for child euthanasia, and hundreds of Belgians have taken to the streets in protest.

Leading pro-life groups including Christian Concern lobbied against the bill, with that group saying the bill ‘will permit children of all ages to choose to end their lives through the administration of a lethal injection.

‘Belgian officials have refused to allow for public input, such as a democratic vote, and are pushing the proposals through despite strong public opposition,’ the group said….

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H/t Grumpy Opinions.

LINKS:
http://grumpyelder.com/2014/02/belgium-approves-measure-allowing-doctors-to-euthanize-children/
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/02/13/belgium-approves-measure-allowing-doctors-to-euthanize-children/

Doctors Engaged In ‘Slow Euthanasia’ For Patients With Terminal Illnesses

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Elderly, End of life, Euthanasia, healthcare rationing, Terminally ill, UK, universal healthcare

As the NHS defends its end of life care treatments or lack thereof, they will not accept that starving, denying a patient hydration and heavily sedating a patient until they finally die is murder.  I do not consider this procedure a mercy killing aka euthanasia, but then again, neither does the NHS.

There are concerns that this procedure, i.e., the denial of food and water along with prolonged heavy sedation masks a patient’s vital signs.  Doctors have complained that if there is a chance that said patient is not really near death, this cost-effective procedure as dictated by the NHS will disguise that prognosis.

One acknowledges that there are those who have suffered so long that they may in fact welcome death.  On the other hand, there are those who would embrace life for as long as they can.  However, we are talking about universal healthcare, which is solely based on cost effectiveness.  This rationing treatment procedure is rendered to patients for no other purpose than to cut costs.  Hence, the NHS decides when enough is enough and doctors as required by NHS guidelines follow through. 

That is why the NHS does not cannot label this treatment or lack thereof euthanasia.  It is murder and no matter how hard the NHS works to cover its rear by justifying said procedure, nothing will change that fact.

Take note America.

TIMESONLINE

“Patients with terminal illness are being heavily sedated by doctors before their deaths in a form of ‘slow euthanasia’, research suggests.

A poll of nearly 3,000 doctors found that almost one in five had administered infusions of drugs to keep patients unconscious for hours or days at a time.

In appropriate doses, sedatives and strong painkillers are considered a valuable way of easing the pain and anxiety of patients who are dying with conditions such as cancer.

But 18.7 per cent of British doctors polled said they used drugs to invoke ‘continuous deep sedation’ in a dying patient, a practice which in other countries is seen as an alternative to legalised euthanasia.

GPs and hospital doctors who are not palliative care specialists were more likely to report using high doses of sedatives or painkillers to keep patients asleep, leading to calls for all doctors to have mandatory training in the care of dying patients.

Guidelines for care at the end of life emphasise that doctors should always act in a patient’s best interests and act within the law, which prohibits euthanasia or actively helping someone to die.

The study, published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, also found that of the sample of 2,786 doctors, those who strongly supported the legalisation of assisted suicide were nearly 40 per cent more likely to employ continued deep sedation than the average.

By contrast, doctors who reported strong religious beliefs or who actively opposed changing the law were less likely to report sedating patients before death.

In most cases sedation was used for between one and seven days or less than 24 hours. But in a significant minority of patients — 8 per cent — doctors reported sedating patients for more than a week before they died.

Clive Seale, a professor of medical sociology who led the study at Queen Mary, University of London, said that deliberately keeping patients unconscious until death was controversial, with some physicians viewing it as a form of ‘slow euthanasia’.

‘Sedation in itself not directly kill a patient, but it does put them to sleep and is associated with other things such as the withdrawal of fluids and ventilation,’ he added.

‘In this country it can be seen as a form of treatment to relieve intractable suffering but in the Netherlands and Belgium, doctors also see it as an easier alternative to legalised euthanasia.”