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May 8, 2005

Selling death by euthanasia kits

Topics: Euthanasia advocacy

What ever happened to love of life, an appreciation for it's mystery, and respect for it's sacredness? Who are we to take our own life because of physical or emotional pain? Who has a right to decide the importance of another's life? Are we seeing the outgrowth of "checkbook euthanasia?" Is this article indicative of where secular society, embraced in the arms of the euthanasia cult, is going to take us? Perhaps, if we let it and don't more fully embrace life ourselves with all it's warts, while fighting for life and against the politically and economically motivated euthanasia mentality.

- Canada Free Press
In Belgium, home of the European Union, they clone doctors like neurologist Dr. Ronald Cranford. Cranford is the doctor who categorized Terri Schiavo in the persistent vegetative state, which led to her death by dehydration when her feeding tube was ordered removed.

The law allows doctors in Belgium to kill the patient if the person is terminally ill and suffering "constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain" from an accident or incurable illness, and if that patient requests death.

The doctor must also be satisfied that the patient is "of age and conscious" and has made the decision to be killed freely, without coercion.

Not only are white-coated doctors administering bedside suicide in the way they used to dispense cheer, now Belgian pharmacies are now cashing in on the death trade.

Two hundred and fifty pharmacies across Belgium began offering euthanasia kits last week, reports LifeSiteNews.com.

The kits cost 60 Euros ($77 U.S.) and are proposed as a means to make the jobs of doctors, who commit euthanasia in homes easier. A yahoo.com report said that 40 percent of euthanasia occurs in the patient's home in Belgium.     More ...

Posted by Hyscience at May 8, 2005 7:09 PM

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