Quebec has voted in favour of legalising euthanasia.
I’m quite sure Quebec’s death dispensing doctors will be efficient and cost effective. US prison doctors, on the other hand, are incapable of finding a vein to administer the prescribed lethal injection to death row inmates; perhaps the US should outsource their executions to Quebec where death doctors will have had plenty of practice. It could provide a much need boost to Quebec’s economy. The paperwork would have to be bilingual, of course.
This isn’t too surprising: on the rare occasion when I have had to sit through a United Church of Canada sermon, by the end of it I was longing for someone to put me out of my misery, too.
From here:
A majority of The United Church Observer magazine readers, most of them church goers, are more liberal in their views than the general Canadian population when it comes to ethical issues such as abortion, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, a survey has shown.
A significant majority (82%) of readers who participated in the poll said they support euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide when life support is disconnected at the request of a terminally ill patient. Only 48% of the general population gave their approval.
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83% of readers and 69% of non-readers believe the decision to terminate a pregnancy should be left to the woman; 9 % of readers and 19% of non-readers said there should be laws prohibiting/restricting abortion regardless of a woman’s wishes.
Doctors will no longer make house calls to heal you, but they will make house calls to kill you – in Holland, at least.
In our never-ending quest to conform to a culture of death, the next step will probably be a do-it-yourself death kit available without prescription at the local pharmacy.
We could call it iDie.
From here:
The world’s first mobile team to administer euthanasia in patients’ homes will be launched next month.
Units will be dispatched when family doctors refuse to administer lethal drugs on ‘ethical’ grounds.
They are expected to send the number of euthanasia cases in Holland soaring, with pro-campaigners claiming they will end the lives of an additional 1,000 patients a year.
From here: 
Baby Joseph Maraachli was released from SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center and flew back to Canada with his family on Thursday morning.
The infant has a progressive neurological disease and received a tracheotomy on March 21 at the St. Louis hospital.
The tracheotomy, which creates an opening into Joseph’s windpipe through an incision in his neck, was a success, said Dr. Robert Wilmott, Chief of Pediatrics for SSM Cardinal Glennon and Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
“Joseph has been breathing on his own, without the aid of a mechanical ventilator, for more than a week,” Wilmott said. “By providing him with this common palliative procedure, we’ve given Joseph the chance to go home and be with his family after spending so much of his young life in the hospital.”
The London Health Sciences Centre had planned, against the parents wishes, to remove baby Joseph’s breathing tube on February 22nd; this would have caused him to choke to death.
The baby will probably still die of his disease, but he will die at home with parents who love him.
He has been given the gift of life – a short life perhaps, but life, nevertheless: just like the rest of us.
Sanjay Gupta interviews Jack Kevorkian
“I have no regrets, none whatsoever,” he said. It was windy outside, but it was also over 90 degrees in sunny Ann Arbor, Michigan. I was now sweating, and he was … well, cold.
He shifted his gaze from his lawyer back to me. “Sanjay, you want to know the single worst moment of my life?”
That wasn’t the question I asked, but in fact I was curious to know the answer.“OK,” I replied — a little uneasily.
He smiled now and said in a very deliberate, almost staccato voice: “The single worst moment of my life… was the moment I was born.” And, we had officially begun my sit-down interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
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In addition to the nihilism inherent in thinking the worst moment of his life was his own birth, Kevorkian seems to exhibit an enthusiasm for killing that borders on a chilling amalgam of insanity and the demonic.
The only good thing about this is the fact that Kevorkian has become an unintentionally effective advocate against euthanasia.
