Have they legalized euthanasia in their hasty pandering?

[BR_Parkway]

Was having a discussion with my partner last night, he mentioned that
now we have case law decided by a federal judge and upheld by a federal appellate court that allows euthanasia? How soon before Dr Kevorkian’s lawyers go to work on that one?

Is that really what these folks meant to do when they so shamelessly pandered to their fundamentalist base? They’ve blatantly passed so many laws in favor of their corporate masters that they had to give the Reich Wing it’s due – but it seems more and more that they’ve picked the wrong issue.

[goodhue]

1. This is not a case euthanasia

The withholding or withdrawing of artificial life-support procedures for a terminally ill patient is not euthanasia.

[bryant69]

3. I don't know about that

I would argue that the waters have been muddied enough in this case, that people are definately going to make a parallel between the two, and it's been the Right Wing that has done the muddying. They think this is a case of Euthenasia, who are we to argue?

Bryant
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[goodhue]

4. there is an important legal distinction

between turning off the machine,
and employing machines or drugs that kill (a la Dr. K).

Removing the feeding tube is not illegal (indeed, it is routine), unlike assisting in suicide.

I agree that the current public discourse has completely muddied the distinction, but doctors, lawyers, judges and medical ethicists all understand it.

[BR_Parkway]

5. I made that same arguement, my partner (a Dr) said that withholding

of food is not an artifical life support procedure. Essentially, the same arguement that the Vatican is trying to make.

There's plenty of grey water for everyone to splash around in.

[fob]

2. Probably. All I know is I am thinking about making a living will or

whatever is the appropriate document where it says george bush* and tom delay must keep me alive at all costs. Heroic measures MUST be used and THEY* have to pay for it. I'd rather those twits* end up spending their ill-gotten money on my living corpse than to further their insane agenda on our children. Just thinkin' about it at this point.