The following comes from a July 14 Catholic News Agency article by Mary Rezac:
You can’t put a price on most things in life. But you can, apparently, put a price on death – $2,000.
That’s what Dr. Lonny Shavelson is charging patients at his brand-new physician-assisted suicide clinic in Berkeley, California.
Last month, California became the fifth and most populous state to adopt a law legalizing physician-assisted suicide. The state’s End of Life Option Act went into effect June 9.
Shavelson, who had retired from practicing medicine, was drawn back after Calif. Governor Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act last year. Shavelson recently opened the state’s first End of Life Options clinic in the Bay Area, where he will consult with and provide lethal prescriptions for patients who request them – and who may not be given the prescription by other doctors who refuse to write such prescriptions.
Under the California law, two doctors must agree that a mentally competent patient has six months or fewer to live. The patient then agrees in writing to administer the lethal prescription themselves. Currently, the law does not mandate doctors to provide lethal prescriptions if they choose not to do so.
“Dr. Death” should be put BEHIND BARS!! SHAME ON HIM!! Of course, he would never be in medical practice, offering his evil, Satanic “medical services” for free, to the poor! Patients’ deaths fill his money bags! He is a VULTURE!! And what shall he say, to God, when he leaves this world??
Soon enough doctors will be killing patients without their consent because treatment has been deemed futile, and the patient has been deemed to have an insufficient quality of life prognosis, and the hospital or insurance company wants to avoid spending money keeping a patient alive.
Death panels are coming to the USA.
Obamacare will result in health rationing and death panels.
My father died seven years ago. We as a pro-life Roman Catholic family asked that my father’s life would be given the dignity he deserved. We were asked to let him go! This was only his second day in the hospital. I personally ask him If he was willing to try his best and he answered yes. They told us he did not know what he was saying and that we needed to let him go. They said he was asking the staff to let him die. That, he was coherent enough to communicate but to share his desire to live until natural death…he was not well enough to say. Finally we had a showdown with his doctor who wanted to ask him once and for all…the truth. We had to have two unbiased witnesses to hear. When he was asked if he was asking to be let go he said…
said what? what happened?
So sorry, for the faux pas. He said he wanted to live and his doctor stormed out of the room angrily. They tried to transfer him to a place where they said he could be “warehoused”. He was upset by this and his health worsened so they said a move was too risky. He was happy once he realized he would not be moved. He died a few days later.
Make sure you realize that at this moment doctors are “letting people go”. He was treated as a burden and we were treated rudely. The doctors refused to speak with us. This new law is just a safety net for what goes on every day. They “let people go” with something swift and chemical all too often.
My father prayed the entire rosary each day and on his death day he lived long enough to fulfill…
Many of you know, Death Panels are in Obamacare already. Quietly & not so quietly used here & there, soon everywhere. Unholy news @ Lifenews is,
The AMA, is moving on the part of the ‘death culture’. The terminally ill are the 1st targets. Read @ http://www.lifenews.com/2016/07/15/ama-wants-to-empower-doctors-to-refuse-medical-care-to-terminally-ill-patients/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifenews%2Fnewsfeed+%28LifeNews.com%29
Continued …..more ‘ethics’ from the AMA. This time from the National Review, re: futile care rule details. Found @ http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/437925/ama-playing-hide-ethical-ball-futile-care-rule
Basically, your doctor decides appropriate future care, not you. Ethically docs no longer have to TREAT you, even if you/your loved ones are willing to try ‘approved’ treatments. The doctor may think it is futile, a waste, costly, buying time, whatever the reason, they decide if you are ‘worth’ treating or not. Unholy and far reaching is the culture of death. The latest attack on humanity….from doctors whom we depend on for help. Pray God be with us.
Continued…..Good News — the Obamacare program is collapsing. Bad News — POTUS is using the crisis to speak up for single payer Federal Deathcare. Is BO out of time? Will his minion get in (God forbid)? She’ll push us into Federal Deathcare. The Legal Insurrection, article @
legalinsurrection.com/2016/07/unexpectedly-obama-now-pushing-public-option-in-obamacare/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le·gal+In·sur·rec·tion%29
Pray God does not destroy the good with the bad. Pray. Pray. Pray.
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http://www.legalinsurrection.com/2016/07/unexpectedly-obama-now-pushing-public-option-in-obamacare/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le·gal+In·sur·rec·tion%29
The so-called “safeguards” put into the death by doctor law are bogus. These safeguards are as good as those put into legalized abortion or legalized medical marijuana. The doctor is just a rubber stamp, taking the money—-often cash-only.
No one is talking about the pharmacist and their role in dispensing the death pill.
Remember, the vote in Sacramento to legalize was 100% Democrats—not one Republican voted for suicide by doctor. The bishops love those DEMs and never speak about the atrocities they commit.
No word on how Complaints from ‘patients’ will be handled… Oh, wait – no Complaints Allowed and nobody left alive to complain, and no need for Malpractice insurance either
They’ve always had guys like this in California – except they’re not physicians. They’re called exterminators.
In Canada here, it’s referred to as ‘assisted dying’ so we gloss over the thought of the suicide/murder of vulnerable people. The next push here is to pronounce a patient ‘brain dead’ as quickly as possible, so their organs can be harvested immediately. This means that anyone who dies, accidentally or otherwise, on vacation, or resident will have their organs removed before their families are notified, if they are unable to communicate their wishes. A donor card does not protect one – it can conveniently disappear. The organ bank would open 24/7. This is the reasoning behind it – they are helping others in need of an organ.
One doctor is proposing that the unborn child be given an anesthetic before the abortion so ‘they…