Dead donor rule for organ transplants is being challenged

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RedState: Dead donor rule for organ transplants is being challenged

By: streiff (Diary) | December 13th, 2014 at 11:16 AM

Back in 1995, Pope Saint John Paul II took note of a tragic flaw and tendency in the modern culture of developed nations in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae (Latin: “The Gospel of Life”):

 

Here we are faced with one of the more alarming symptoms of the “culture of death”, which is advancing above all in prosperous societies, marked by an attitude of excessive preoccupation with efficiency and which sees the growing number of elderly and disabled people as intolerable and too burdensome. These people are very often isolated by their families and by society, which are organized almost exclusively on the basis of criteria of productive efficiency, according to which a hopelessly impaired life no longer has any value.

 

In the age of Obamacare, this death as a therapeutic option has come to permeate the health care industry… to include doctors and nurses.

For example, this:

 

Her doctor offered hope in the new chemotherapy drug Tarceva, but the Oregon Health Plan sent her a letter telling her the cancer treatment was not approved.

 

Instead, the letter said, the plan would pay for comfort care, including “physician aid in dying,” better known as assisted suicide.

[SrWoodchuck]

Obumblercare is two thirds of this triumvirate of words:

 

EVIL VILE LIVE

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French parliament prepares new end-of-life legislation

 

French parliament to debate a draft law that will give doctors in France the right to put terminally-ill patients into a deep sleep until they die

 

By Henry Samuel, Paris

3:01PM GMT 12 Dec 2014

 

Doctors in France will have the right to put terminally-ill patients into a deep sleep until they die, under plans unveiled on Friday that reignited a national debate on euthanasia.

 

Apart from Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, few countries in the world explicitly permit euthanasia or assisted suicide.

 

In France, a 2005 law permits "passive euthanasia", where a person causes death by withholding or withdrawing treatment that is necessary to maintain life.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11290282/French-parliament-prepares-new-end-of-life-legislation.html