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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is there a case for positive euthanasia for end stage Alzheimer sufferers?
« on: 02/07/2016 00:41:29 »
Someone claimed that Alzheimer's is the worst disease.
That is an incredibly naive remark. I have known sufferers from Tic Douloureux to hang themselves -- while babysitting their niece.
Let us call a spade a spade. "Positive Euthanasia" for Alzheimer's means killing someone without their informed consent. People who do that are rightly imprisoned because it is Homicide.
Nor can it be argued that it is ethical because it inevitably involves freeing oneself of a burdensome relative and very often financial gain by inheritance. I have personally witnessed that more times than I care to remember.
In short, it is abhorrent homicide to civilized people no matter how much some people may try to pass it off as some act of "mercy".
If someone finds it too burdensome to care for a sick relative, then they should pass the burden off to someone with more fortitude. Making up some baloney about "positive euthanasia" to get out of caring for them may be understandable human weakness. It is never the less advocating a criminal assault.
Even in this Brave New World. So pull up your socks and let's hear no more of this deplorable double-speak about the propriety of Nazi style ethics.
That is an incredibly naive remark. I have known sufferers from Tic Douloureux to hang themselves -- while babysitting their niece.
Let us call a spade a spade. "Positive Euthanasia" for Alzheimer's means killing someone without their informed consent. People who do that are rightly imprisoned because it is Homicide.
Nor can it be argued that it is ethical because it inevitably involves freeing oneself of a burdensome relative and very often financial gain by inheritance. I have personally witnessed that more times than I care to remember.
In short, it is abhorrent homicide to civilized people no matter how much some people may try to pass it off as some act of "mercy".
If someone finds it too burdensome to care for a sick relative, then they should pass the burden off to someone with more fortitude. Making up some baloney about "positive euthanasia" to get out of caring for them may be understandable human weakness. It is never the less advocating a criminal assault.
Even in this Brave New World. So pull up your socks and let's hear no more of this deplorable double-speak about the propriety of Nazi style ethics.
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