The Culture of Death Comes Knocking

For The Death of Culture

Wesley J. Smith:

 "From the Christianity Today story:

A Catholic nursing home in Belgium is reported to have fallen foul of the country’s courts after refusing to permit a resident to access euthanasia. The incident happened in 2011 when Huize Sint-Augustinus home in Diest refused to allow an elderly woman’s doctor access to see her – when it was thought she was about to be given a lethal injection. The home has been ordered to pay €6,000 (approx $6,600 or £5,000) in damaged to the family of the woman. The civil court in Louvain ruled that “the nursing home did not have the right to refuse euthanasia on the grounds of conscientious objection.”

Forced to be complicit in homicide or pay damages! The culture of death brooks no dissent.

More:

 

"[I]n Oregon, some dead patients knew their death doctors for only two weeks or less before receiving their lethal dose. Death doctors can prescribe out of their own area of medical specialty.

[D]eath doctoring isn’t about providing professional treatment for patients. Indeed, the suicide MD need not have any specialized training in terminal illnesses or be schooled in how to support such patients medically. ... Jack Kevorkian was a pathologist and hadn’t treated a living patient since the 1950s.

 

In the Netherlands, Bert Keizer, a nursing home doctor, euthanizes cancer patients and others such as Parkinson’s patients, apparently not knowing how to properly palliate their suffering. Worse, death doctors are able to prescribe lethally under a lower standard of care than treating doctors: Treating doctors can be sued for malpractice if they breach the “standard of care” required of all doctors in a particular medical situation. Not death doctors. All they have to demonstrate is that they acted in “good faith.”…

 

[W]hat if the death doctor mistakes a non-terminal condition for a terminal one and writes a lethal prescription? As long as that lethal mistake was made in good faith, under the provision quoted above, it would seem not to be actionable. ... Another way of looking at it is that assisted suicide isn’t really medicine." ..................

Oh, it's medicine, alright. Veterinary medicine.

UPDATE: More;

 

"[H]ospice and palliative care are about living. Euthanasia/assisted suicide are about killing. ...Quebec’s Minister of Health is ordering palliative care docs in a hospital to kill legally qualified patients who ask for euthanasia. ...

 

Forcing [unwilling] people in the medical professions to commit homicide is tyranny, pure and simple! I hope the [hospital] tells him to stick it in his ear in a policy of total noncooperation.

If the Health Minister is so keen on seeing patients killed, let him give the lethal jab. Euthanasia, after all, isn’t really medicine."............

Like some court rulings which purport to be law but are actually the opposite, this purports to be medicine, but is it's antithesis.