tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post6200425640416966734..comments2024-03-15T00:12:57.489-07:00Comments on Covenant Zone: Preview Of Post-Christian UK: Burdensome Old People Have A Duty To Dietruepeershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-3634963081350904592008-09-24T21:21:00.000-07:002008-09-24T21:21:00.000-07:00Charles,This is positively hair-raising. I had to ...Charles,<BR/><BR/>This is positively hair-raising. I had to write up an advance directive. I did the best I could considering I have no idea how I will die or who the doctors will be or what the best medical decisions will be at that time. I had to appoint lawyers as health agents and had a long friendly discussion with them. Dementia and Alzheimer's are far worse than diseases like cancer. So long as you have your mind you can instruct the doctors. An advance directive gives you the option of saying that you wish to be kept alive no matter what. I did not say that, but I did forbid euthanasia (it's illegal anyway).<BR/><BR/>On September 1939 Hitler authorized the T4 program with a simple statement:<BR/><BR/>"The Reichsleiter Bouhler and Doctor Brandt are entrusted with, and responsible for, the job of extending the duties of certain doctors designated by them by authorizing them to administer a merciful death to sick persons who have been deemed incurable after an examination that is as rigorous as possible."tibergehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17738716899363426734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-50815235033668811822008-09-19T17:13:00.000-07:002008-09-19T17:13:00.000-07:00This is the type of thinking that comes from a cal...This is the type of thinking that comes from a callous view of life. These people who she calls "A burden" paid their taxes and fought in their nation's wars. Now because she is inconvenienced they have to die? No! It is her and her group that should be committing suicide instead of taking a nation with them.Findalishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02881549378886491540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-84280869124065858182008-09-19T10:55:00.000-07:002008-09-19T10:55:00.000-07:00I'd like to say the woman is nuts, and so we shoul...I'd like to say the woman is nuts, and so we shouldn't put her down; my higher reason and love tells me she is just an advocate of murder. Yes, this is the kind of "murder" that earlier, pre-Christian societies readily licensed as not murder. <BR/><BR/>So if, for whatever reason, someone cannot believe in God and so thinks they have to give up on the faith that insists on sanctity for all life and a refusal of anyone's license to judge when it should be snuffed out, then we have to be able to show how Christianity is true, not just for Christians, but also in good part for those who put their faith wholly in humanity. And if it can then be shown that the "moral philosopher" really has faith in neither, then we should build up people to know it is a noble life to nurse the senile to a natural death.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-29775438581744922472008-09-19T10:45:00.000-07:002008-09-19T10:45:00.000-07:00That sounds almost dangerously close to the theory...That sounds almost dangerously close to the theory of eugenics, doesn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com