How we have repeated history:
On the surface, expanding access to assisted death may seem to go hand-in-hand with closing a hospice that refuses to provide it. Since euthanasia was legislated into Canada’s health-care system, the prevailing notion is that Canadians must be able to access it wherever they choose and that health-care professionals are required to provide it. Or are they? ...
Canadian health-care professionals must be free to fulfill their calling to care for, and not to kill, those who are sick and dying. Human rights, justice, dignity, solidarity and liberal democracy all demand that the neglect of freedom of conscience in Canada’s health-care system be reconciled before it is too late. It would, most importantly, be the ethical thing to do.
One knows that doctors will never have the right to opt out of killing the patients they once looked after.
Just has the doctors have only the right to kill, patients have the duty to die:
When 90-year-old Nancy Russell died last month, she was surrounded by friends and family.
They clustered around her bed, singing a song she had chosen to send her off, as a doctor helped her through a medically-assisted death.
It was the exact opposite of the lonely months of lockdown Russell had suffered through in the retirement home where Russell had lived for several years -- that was the whole point.
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Chris Gladders didn’t live in a tent. He lived in a squalid Hamilton, Ont., long-term care home, suffering from Fabry disease, a genetic condition that causes multiple organ failure. “The bedding hadn’t been changed for weeks. There was feces on the bed. There was urine on the bed. There was urine and feces on the floor,” NDP MPP Wayne Gates, who communicated with the family, told CBC. “The room was absolutely disgusting.”
Gladders, 35, chose to die with medical assistance last week. Greycliff Manor, where he lived, has had its operating licence revoked — effective June 1.
Yes.
Die instead of addressing the deplorable conditions of nursing homes and so that people don't have to see the cold, hard reality of aging and suffering.
Compassion, after all, takes effort and a willingness to accept what is in front of one.
Also - Andrew Cuomo is a son-of-a-b!#ch:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors, The Post has learned.
The stunning admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.
“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. “He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”
In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.”
“And basically, we froze,” she told the lawmakers on the call.
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More than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in New York state were released from hospitals into nursing homes early in the pandemic under a controversial directive that was scrapped amid criticism it accelerated outbreaks, according to new records obtained by The Associated Press.
The new number of 9,056 recovering patients sent to hundreds of nursing homes is more than 40% higher than what the state health department previously released. And it raises new questions as to whether a March 25 directive from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration helped spread sickness and death among residents, a charge the state disputes.
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