The following comes from a March 10 LA Times article by Patrick McGreevy:
California’s terminally ill patients should begin talking to physicians now if they want to end their lives, advocates said Thursday after a legislative vote triggered a June 9 start date for the End of Life Option Act.
The law, which allows doctors in California to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill people who want to hasten their deaths, includes a time-consuming approval process that could take several weeks, said Toni Broaddus, California campaign director for the group Compassion & Choices.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed the measure last year, but it wasn’t until the Legislature adjourned a special session in Sacramento on Thursday that June 9 was set for when it becomes legal for physicians to write lethal doses without fear of criminal prosecution.
Even if some terminally ill patients begin the process now, Broaddus said she does not expect a large number of deaths on June 9. In Oregon, which previously adopted the same law, patients on average wait 45 days to take the lethal doses from the time they are prescribed.
The delays are often the result of patients wanting the doses in hand just in case but waiting until the last possible moment to take the medication, Broaddus said.
Don’t be fooled for a second that this is a good thing. The Culture of Death commands more and more killing and it will never be satisfied. These people are doing Satan’s work many believing it is a nobel cause. It is not and these “aid in dying” laws are from the pit of hell.
How does the Catholic Church now plan to protect the extremely vulnerable, low-income elderly and handicapped, from being taken advantage of, with this new, EVIL “death” law?? Too bad Church leaders can’t DUMP babyish, IRRESPONSIBLE, “Me-Generation-style” “freedoms” of Vatican II– and decide to “wake up,” and be tough, NO-NONSENSE, MORAL AND SPIRITUAL GUARDIANS, for the world! Run a STRONG Church, kick out those who are immoral and heretical– and TOO BAD!! Let ’em CRY! That is the MANLY SACRIFICE FOR CHRIST that is tragically MISSING, in the Church of today!
We do not even have any Catholic hospitals left, with reliable and responsible clergy, nuns, and medical personnel, to ensure the safety and welfare, of sick or dying Catholic patients, of any age– birth to 100+ years old! No guarantees, of protecting ALL LIFE, from womb to tomb!! No guarantees, at all! SELFISH CHURCH!! MAKES ME SICK!!
there are few catholic nursing homes left I read that in the whole state of Virginia there is a home run by the little sisters of the poor in the diocese of Arlington Virginia there are no catholic nursing homes at all they do not even have a single catholic cemetery when one bishop of Arlington died they were required to bury him in a secular cemetery until a tomb could be prepared in the rather small cathedral of saint Thomas more I know a priest in the Arlington Virginia diocese land there is very expensive and there is little land lend left they are onlt 50 miles from dc and a lot of land is owned by the govt or the military
look for this to be delegated to a software algorhythm for the decision-making. once the docs run it for a while as ‘testspilots’, it will be handed off to nurses then , say, in 3 yeqrs or so, made available for nursing assisstants to carry out with a 3 month training module for qualificatioin.