"Oddly enough, the program does not include one of the first and most famous euthanasia films, the tear-jerker Ich Klage An – perhaps because it was made by Nazis during World War II to promote voluntary euthanasia as a cover-up for the involuntary sort."
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"Monkeys befriend toucans and then break their necks before eating them. Frogs eat mosquito larvae and other pesky bugs. Termites eat rotting trees and build large nests that birds invade for dinner. Even the trees know how to survive -- the walking palm sprouts new roots and kills old ones so that it can "walk" to find the nourishing sun under the thick tree canopy.She of course does not really suggest we eat the elderly......just a metaphor.
And the smells? Earthy fresh, clean, sometimes floral, occasionally appetizing (flowers that smell like garlic). And the sounds? A symphony of the original tweets and twitters, clicks and clacks, even howls and squeals. Some are songs of joy, some are sirens of warning, some are simply announcements of being alive."
"I know its fraught will all kinds of moral and legal dilemmas. But if we can prolong life beyond its natural time line, we can surely figure out how to allow people to end it -- on their own terms and with the dignity they deserve. "Count her another advocate for euthanasia and assisted suicide....the slippery slope.....are we at the bottom yet?
Following the November 2010 elections, the suicide lobby announced that they will legalize assisted suicide in at least one eastern US state and that their push will lead to several states legalizing assisted suicide within the next few years.
In Hawaii, Senator Ige sponsored bill SB 803 to legalize assisted suicide that was introduced on January 21. SB 803 was sent to the Senate Health Committee where on February 7, it received more than 4 hours of debate. 
In Montana, a December 31, 2009 court decision, did not legalize assisted suicide or create a right to assisted suicide, as the suicide lobby claims, but the court did create a defense of consent for doctors who are prosecuted for assisted suicide.
Last year the suicide lobby organized a significant push to gain public support for assisted suicide in Idaho. In response to the push by the suicide lobby, on February 4, Senator Russ Fulcher introduced Senate Bill SB 1070 to clean-up the criminal code to ensure that assisted suicide is completely illegal in Idaho.
On February 2, New Hampshire bill HB 513,that was sponsored by Rep Charles Weed, to legalize assisted suicide was introduced. Those who follow the issue know that a similar bill to legalize assisted suicide was defeated in the New Hampshire legislature, in January 2010, by a vote of 242 to 113.
Following the November election, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin promised that his government would legalize assisted suicide in their state. Shumlin, who had unsuccessfully sponsored assisted suicide bills in the past, received significant support from the suicide lobby during his campaign for Governor."Richardson also interviews uninsured prostate cancer patient Randy Stroup, who was denied further health care by Oregon’s insurance program after an initial operation was unsuccessful. In a notorious case that gained nationwide attention, the state offered him the Death With Dignity option instead of further surgery. Although the agency ultimately reversed its ruling and approved chemotherapy, Stroup succumbed, bringing further attention to the inadequacies of healthcare coverage for the uninsured."
“How to Die in Oregon” may well turn out to be a definitive social issue documentary in the expanding right to die movement and the national healthcare debate. Despite the policy implications, however, the most affecting aspects of the film are the subjects’ courage and openness discussing extremely private matters and the filmmakers’ compassionate approach."
"How much pressure to convince people to die by euthanasia will be on people. First there is pressure based on the cost of medical care. Then there is pressure from family members who are tired of caring for the person. Then there is pressure on a person because society has made them feel like a burden. Now there is pressure because good will come from euthanasia if they donate their healthy organs.But of course they separate the euthanasia and transplantation to "wash their hands" of the subtle evil.
The reason the organs are healthy is that the person is often not yet dying, but of course euthanasia takes care of that problem."
Euthanasia for organ transplant is a bit different from normal euthanasia, the doctors say, because they prefer that patients die in hospital rather than at home.
They have developed a protocol for the procedure.
- There has to be a strict separation between the euthanasia request, the euthanasia procedure, and the organ procurement.
- The donor and his (or her) relatives have to consent.
- The euthanasia is performed by a neurologist or psychiatrist and two house physicians.
- Organ retrieval begins after clinical diagnosis of death by the three physicians.
- And, of course, staff participation is voluntary.
It sounds very similar to the Groningen Protocol, the Protocol that allows Dutch physicians to euthanize newborns with disabilities.
"India's Supreme Court has directed three doctors to examine the medical condition of a woman who has been in a vegetative state since 1973."They expect a decision next month.
"If you thought Eugenics were a thing of the past, something that died off with Hitler; you are sadly mistaken.
Watch these videos from a British TV Show; author and columnist, Virginia Ironside share her eugenic views. While the female clergy surely looks surprised and shocked in this first video, I think I would have exploded at these statements if I had been on the show. In this first video she refers to children as simply a couple of cells and talks about how loving mothers would suffocate sick children with a pillow."
According to Radio Netherlands, Right to Die NL (NVVE) wants to set up “life’s end” clinics to accommodate people who do not meet the government’s legal requirements for euthanasia. These people include those suffering from chronic psychiatric problems, Alzheimer’s or dementia, or who feel they have “completed” their life.
This is irresponsible and downright dangerous; it is the equivalent of handing a gun to someone who is suicidal,” wrote Lanny Berman, president of the International Association of Suicide Prevention, in an email.Forty-five years ago, San Francisco had the highest suicide rate in the world. In 1962, the city developed the first crisis hotline in the United States, a model now replicated around the country. Since then, the annual suicide rate in San Francisco has dropped by half.Final Exit Network paid for the billboard and said it hoped it would provoke discussion about “the right to die.”Members of Final Exit Network, which was founded in 2005, have been present at the deaths of about 130 people.
".....given his particularly radical agenda when it comes to health policy — an agenda that includes support for massive government rationing and his support of using health care bureaucracy to redistribute wealth."In defending such outspoken comments, they use Singer quotes to defend him! Amazing! Singer is most known in the pro life world as a believer in infanticide and non voluntary euthanasia and is most unapologetic about it. Here is one of the quotes from a 1996 book.
"Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons. Hence their lives would seem to be no more worthy of protection than the life of a fetus."
