I find it intriguing that pollsters feel they need to ask questions that people know they cannot honestly answer. My beef with pollsters is that they have NOT truly polled MOST Canadians. And so I don't believe anything coming out of a poll since the questions are seldom honest. As you can see by the response to the poll here, 93% disapprove of allowing physicians to kill their patients. That is just the opposite of what the so called Angus Poll said. So wisdom says "If in doubt, don't". So.... don't put physicians in the position to kill their patients. Simple. If you are trying to get the Canadian people to justify your wicked behaviour, think again. We, in our heart of hearts, want to take the moral high ground, even though it is uncomfortable to suffer and see people suffer. The option - killing them - is worse.
Leo - 9 years ago
No to Dr. Death. Train other people to deal out death, not doctors.
E. G. - 9 years ago
Whatever words we use it is killing, and it is against 5-th God Commandment which says; Don't kill.
I don't support in any way killing or euthanasia, even unnecessary killing of animals, so to me there is no mercy killing, it is a murder.
Very similar case is with abortion, it is not only killing, it is slaughtering innocent babies by own mothers and fathers with the help of doctors in the name of choice. It is another type of murder, killing, that should be forbidden by law, but following natural law, a Law of God, life should be protected from the very beginning to the very end (conception to natural death). Amen
j - 9 years ago
I would like to state by saying that in the best case scenario euthanasia is the killing of the sick and weak. If we allow this then when does it stop? That being said I would like to examine some od the legislation that has been proposed previously.
Canada has debated euthanasia and assisted suicide on many occasions with the most recent vote in parliament (April 2010) where bill C-384 was defeated by a vote of 228 to 59.
The language of Senate Bill S 225 is intentionally permissive. The bill is designed to protect physicians who act by lethally injecting or assisting the suicide of their patients. It is not designed to protect the patients.
For example:
The bill specifically allows euthanasia and assisted suicide for people with disabilities.
The bill allows euthanasia or assisted suicide for “psychological suffering.” Psychological suffering is not defined.
The bill is not limited to terminal illness.
The bill requires the physician to self report the death after it has already occurred.
This assumes that physicians will self-report abuse of the law. Since the patient is dead, when the act is reported, therefore no actual protection exists for the patient.
People with disabilities generally oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide. The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) intervened at the Supreme Court of Canada case concerning euthanasia and assisted suicide. In its media release CCD spokesperson, Catherine Frazee stated:
In jurisdictions where assisted suicide/euthanasia is legal the leading reasons given for dying are not pain related, but rather “losing dignity and autonomy” and “becoming burdensome for family and friends”.
To endorse these as valid reasons to die can only reinforce and entrench fear of disability and prejudice about the value of disabled people’s lives.
I find it intriguing that pollsters feel they need to ask questions that people know they cannot honestly answer. My beef with pollsters is that they have NOT truly polled MOST Canadians. And so I don't believe anything coming out of a poll since the questions are seldom honest. As you can see by the response to the poll here, 93% disapprove of allowing physicians to kill their patients. That is just the opposite of what the so called Angus Poll said. So wisdom says "If in doubt, don't". So.... don't put physicians in the position to kill their patients. Simple. If you are trying to get the Canadian people to justify your wicked behaviour, think again. We, in our heart of hearts, want to take the moral high ground, even though it is uncomfortable to suffer and see people suffer. The option - killing them - is worse.
No to Dr. Death. Train other people to deal out death, not doctors.
Whatever words we use it is killing, and it is against 5-th God Commandment which says; Don't kill.
I don't support in any way killing or euthanasia, even unnecessary killing of animals, so to me there is no mercy killing, it is a murder.
Very similar case is with abortion, it is not only killing, it is slaughtering innocent babies by own mothers and fathers with the help of doctors in the name of choice. It is another type of murder, killing, that should be forbidden by law, but following natural law, a Law of God, life should be protected from the very beginning to the very end (conception to natural death). Amen
I would like to state by saying that in the best case scenario euthanasia is the killing of the sick and weak. If we allow this then when does it stop? That being said I would like to examine some od the legislation that has been proposed previously.
Canada has debated euthanasia and assisted suicide on many occasions with the most recent vote in parliament (April 2010) where bill C-384 was defeated by a vote of 228 to 59.
The language of Senate Bill S 225 is intentionally permissive. The bill is designed to protect physicians who act by lethally injecting or assisting the suicide of their patients. It is not designed to protect the patients.
For example:
The bill specifically allows euthanasia and assisted suicide for people with disabilities.
The bill allows euthanasia or assisted suicide for “psychological suffering.” Psychological suffering is not defined.
The bill is not limited to terminal illness.
The bill requires the physician to self report the death after it has already occurred.
This assumes that physicians will self-report abuse of the law. Since the patient is dead, when the act is reported, therefore no actual protection exists for the patient.
People with disabilities generally oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide. The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) intervened at the Supreme Court of Canada case concerning euthanasia and assisted suicide. In its media release CCD spokesperson, Catherine Frazee stated:
In jurisdictions where assisted suicide/euthanasia is legal the leading reasons given for dying are not pain related, but rather “losing dignity and autonomy” and “becoming burdensome for family and friends”.
To endorse these as valid reasons to die can only reinforce and entrench fear of disability and prejudice about the value of disabled people’s lives.