Why Not Increase Suicide Eligibility to 1 Year?
By Wesley J. Smith
The
suicide pushers always point to Oregon as supposed proof that assisted
suicide can be managed and controlled without abuse. It’s all Kabuki
Theater.
Now, a proposal has been filed to expand eligibility to receive doctor-prescribed death from six months to live to one year. Some are tut-tut-ting, but I don’t see why. Such long-distance prescribing already happens”“and nothing is done about it.
Here’s the proof: The last state annual report on assisted suicide found that people died in 2014 who had been provided death prescriptions in 2012! From the annual state regurgitation report:
So, where are the investigations? Oh, there are none. This certainly isn’t the first time.
Michael P. Freeland obtained a lethal prescription two years before he died and was later allowed to keep it by psychiatrists even after becoming so psychotic that he had to be hospitalized.
So, why worry about expanding eligibility? At least it would be honest.
But don’t look for suicide pushers to support the expansion(for now). The current law lets people get long-term death prescriptions without fear of consequence and suicide apologists can still pretend it is all under control, enabled by a see-no-evil state bureaucracy.
Ho hum, Who cares?
Editor’s note. This appeared on Wesley’s great blog.
The
suicide pushers always point to Oregon as supposed proof that assisted
suicide can be managed and controlled without abuse. It’s all Kabuki
Theater.Now, a proposal has been filed to expand eligibility to receive doctor-prescribed death from six months to live to one year. Some are tut-tut-ting, but I don’t see why. Such long-distance prescribing already happens”“and nothing is done about it.
Here’s the proof: The last state annual report on assisted suicide found that people died in 2014 who had been provided death prescriptions in 2012! From the annual state regurgitation report:
Eleven patients with
prescriptions written during the previous years (2012 and 2013) died
after ingesting the medication during 2014.
Michael P. Freeland obtained a lethal prescription two years before he died and was later allowed to keep it by psychiatrists even after becoming so psychotic that he had to be hospitalized.
So, why worry about expanding eligibility? At least it would be honest.
But don’t look for suicide pushers to support the expansion(for now). The current law lets people get long-term death prescriptions without fear of consequence and suicide apologists can still pretend it is all under control, enabled by a see-no-evil state bureaucracy.
Ho hum, Who cares?
Editor’s note. This appeared on Wesley’s great blog.
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