{"id":4771,"date":"2010-07-23T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=4771"},"modified":"2010-07-23T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T23:59:13","slug":"euthanasia-is-not-dying-with-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/07\/23\/euthanasia-is-not-dying-with-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia is not ‘dying with dignity’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an article from the National Post (Canada) of 26 April 2010,\u00a0\u00a0The Week In Letters Readers give a big thumbs down to ‘death with dignity’<\/a>, they write of the response to the recent private members bill to amend the Criminal Code to allow people to “die with dignity.” Of the 70 letters that came in to the Editor that week only a handful sided with the idea that the laws around assisted suicide should be liberalized<\/em><\/p>\n

Two of the comments were:<\/p>\n

Dying with dignity? … There is nothing dignified, or heroic, or courageous or laudable about doing yourself in. Rather, it is a sign of greatest weakness and humiliating cowardice.<\/p>\n

Killing someone is killing someone… Euthanasia is the slippery slope, and doctors are not God. God has a plan for each of our lives — a time to be born and a time to die. It is not for doctors or the government to decide when someone should die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Courant.com <\/a>(19 July 2010), in New Hampshire a\u00a0state representative reported that they had,<\/div>\n
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recently voted down an Oregon-style “death with dignity” act. The vote was 242 to 133 (nearly 70 percent).<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
She stated that such legislation does not bring “choice” to elders,<\/div>\n
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Contrary to promoting “choice” for older people, these acts are a prescription for abuse. These acts empower heirs and others to pressure and abuse older people to cut short their lives. This is especially an issue when the older person has money. There is no assisted-suicide bill that you can write to correct this huge problem…Do not be deceived.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And some good news from Connecticut,<\/div>\n
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Superior Court Judge <\/a>Julia Aurigemma has dismissed the case brought by two doctors – with heavy assistance by Compassion & Choices (C&C) – which sought to decriminalize physician-assisted suicide through the courts.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Here in Tasmania we have a private members bill being prepared by Lara Giddings and Nick McKim.\u00a0 It was only last\u00a0year (4 November 2009) that the House of Assembly rejected the Dying with Dignity legislation (see Dying with Dignity bill – Voted out<\/a>). It seems like we need to be praying hard and campaigning, once again, that this bill is not passed.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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