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Unrated (as R: nudity, graphic violence, rape, animal euthanasia). LOG IN TO COMMENT. (Boston Globe)
Letter: Government needs to pull back on spending reins Sep 25, 2009
n Forced support for abortions, euthanasia and restricted access to health care for the elderly and sick. n New taxation (Cap and Trade) for weather patterns man has no control over. (Montana Standard, MT)
Asian attitudes Sep 24, 2009
As more and more countries in the West are grappling with how to legislate on this difficult issue, the BBC's Vaudine England looks at how assisted suicide and euthanasia are viewed in Asia ... In "I Want To Have Euthanasia", he argues that choosing how and when to die is a basic human right ... "Tradition does not allow us to talk about dying. Our tradition is conservative. More than the West. Our society seldom discusses the issue. Here, life is more a collective thing, we are less... (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Helped to die Sep 24, 2009
ASSISTED DYING Euthanasia: taking deliberate action, such as an injection, or withdrawing medical treatment to end a person's life Assisted suicide: providing the means, e.g. medicine, to allow a patient to end their own life. The state of Montana has asked the state's Supreme Court to overturn that ruling. (BBC News -- Europe)
Britain removes some hurdles to assisted suicide Sep 24, 2009
"This policy does not in any way permit euthanasia," Starmer said ... The parents of Daniel James, a young British rugby player who was paralyzed in a training session two years ago, helped their son commit suicide by taking him to a Swiss clinic that specializes in euthanasia. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
A neutered pet is happy, safe, healthy Sep 24, 2009
Gregory Castle is a founder of in Kanab, Utah, is interim CEO of the society and president of No More Homeless Pets Utah, an initiative to end pet euthanasia in the state through spay/neuter programs. Posted. (USA Today -- Life)
Obama pushes takeover through czars Sep 23, 2009
Dr. Emanuel is a strong advocate of health-care rationing and euthanasia for the elderly and infirm. He has published many writings on the subject, and is known by colleagues as the "deadly doctor." He's exactly why health-care "reform" from these people is a Trojan horse. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Oconee County police blotter Sep 23, 2009
Euthanasia: On Sept. 11, a deputy was dispatched to Miriam Place on a report that a deer whose antlers were entangled in an extension cord and trapped next to a tree. A Department of Natural Resources ranger said the best course of action was to humanely kill the deer. (Athens Banner-Herald)
* Quadriplegic dies after winning the right to starve Sep 22, 2009
Euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke said that Rossiters poor health had claimed his life before he could starve himself to death. He said Rossiter was receiving pain relief medication when he saw him last week but refused to take antibiotics for the chest infection that eventually killed him. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Be afraid of frothing extremists Sep 22, 2009
Oregon is a bit different from most states in that euthanasia is legal. I imagine that factors in here. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Aussie 'Right-To-Die' Case Ends In Death Sep 21, 2009
Hammond said the ruling was not about euthanasia, but about giving people the right to refuse treatment if they are dying. 2009 Associated Press. (Newsmax)
Obama: Health insurance mandate no tax increase Sep 21, 2009
justshortoflokul wrote on Sep 19, 2009 11:25 AM:" The big push to "pass it now, fix it later" makes me trust the intentions of our current congress and president even less. This is a model that won't reduce poverty but impoverish even more than before. We will see our national debt balloon and the quality of medical care go down. With the current movement toward abortion and euthanasia, the government will be empowered to decide on who lives and who dies. With that, we will become the next North... (Longview Daily News, WA)
Quadriplegic dies after landmark case Sep 21, 2009
Voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide is illegal in Australia and Britain, but Britain will this week clarify when a person will and will not be prosecuted for assisting suicide. In 1996, Australia's outback Northern Territory introduced the world's first voluntary euthanasia laws. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Australian who won 'right to die' case dies Sep 21, 2009
Hammond said the ruling was not about euthanasia, but about giving people the right to refuse treatment if they are dying. "Mr. Rossiter's primary legacy is that he was took a case to the Supreme Court which ruled that patients have the right to refuse medication and food and water if they want to proceed to die quickly," he told ABC.. (India Times, India)
Neoconservatism founder Norman Podhoretz explores conundrum of ‘Why are Jews Liberals’ Sep 20, 2009
On race, abortion, the military, civil liberties, marijuana, euthanasia, gun control - name almost any controversial political issue - American Jews can be trusted to come down firmly and disproportionately on the left. Why. (Boston Globe)
The Deaf And Dump Preachers Around Us Sep 20, 2009
The lorry was obviously pleading on the owner to have mercy on it and to put it to rest, either by euthanasia or. Your guess is good as mine. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Pets Need Homes As Shelter Closes Sep 19, 2009
He said the animal policies are still being worked out, but they will include euthanasia. "We will euthanize when we have to, but we'll also work to try to adopt," Interim Chief Philip Dupuis said. (Click2Houston, TX)
I-Team: BLM and Wild Horse Advocates Working Together for Adoption Day Sep 19, 2009
"When we look at the issue of euthanasia, every year it's a cyclical thing. It comes back around no matter what we do to put it in the box. It comes back and for one good reason: we have too many horses standing around. Until we find a way to effectively place horses in good homes on a consistent basis, we will always see the threat of euthanasia raise its head again and again," said Reynoldson. BLM knows its adoption program has failed to keep pace. (KLAS-TV.com, NV)
Congratulations - it's a boomlet. (But now the fun starts …) Sep 19, 2009
It is true that the only way to combat an ageing population - bar introducing state-sanctioned euthanasia for the over 85s - is to have a faster-growing population of young people. But population growth puts a strain on existing resources. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
What to do this weekend Sep 19, 2009 Clean industry is better Sep 18, 2009 Problems abound in health reform Sep 18, 2009 Would Obama Really Kill Granny? Sep 18, 2009 Lisbon 'fine by us' says bishop Sep 18, 2009 Beware the dog, and cat, contracting horrific rabies Sep 18, 2009 Why do Whales Beach Themselves? Sep 18, 2009 Audit finds fault with 2nd shelter Sep 17, 2009 Building Was 'The Future' Of Research At Yale Sep 17, 2009 New 'Hidden Life' in dogged pursuit of deer Sep 17, 2009 Study: 8 million Americans consider suicide Sep 17, 2009 Busting A Myth About Roe v. Wade. Sep 17, 2009 Pilots Fly Shelter Pups, Cats To Families Sep 16, 2009 Police Serve Search Warrant In Annie Le Case Sep 16, 2009 Concord pilot helps pups through nonprofit program Sep 16, 2009 U.S. pilots save shelter animals Sep 16, 2009 Business requests pet food donations Sep 15, 2009 Read the 'News Watch' transcript Sep 15, 2009 A paw and a prayer: Pilots save shelter animals Sep 15, 2009 Blumenauer's end-of-life counseling once favored by Palin Sep 15, 2009 Demonstrators attack Obama's 'socialist' reforms Sep 14, 2009 Pilots N Paws Takes Off to Find Unwanted Dogs New Homes Sep 13, 2009 Green Valley Vipers ‘storm’ Silver City Sep 13, 2009 `Tax-and-Spend' Protesters Fill Washington as Obama Pushes Health Overhaul Sep 13, 2009 Lemoore woman finalist for 'Hero' Sep 13, 2009 Adoption event tackles pet homelessness Sep 12, 2009 Berlusconi says he won't resign over sex scandal Sep 11, 2009 Obama: 'The Time for Games Has Passed' Sep 11, 2009 Tylko studying evolution of medical ethics Sep 10, 2009 Belgium euthanasia cases jump after new law Sep 10, 2009 Egg hatchery owner says inquiry found problems Sep 9, 2009 Hatchery says it corrected problems after video Sep 9, 2009 I'll prove I'm pro-Vatican, says Berlusconi Sep 9, 2009 Interview With Mike Judge Sep 9, 2009 Abortion Health Care: Beginning 9/9, Randall Terry, and Pro-life Advocates From Seven States and DC Area Begin 2 Weeks of Protests, Lobbying, Street Theatre, and Confrontations on Wednesday, September 9. The Message: 'We Won't Pay for Murder!' Sep 9, 2009 Health care recess over for state's congressional delegation Sep 7, 2009 President's health care plan bottom line 'blurred' Sep 7, 2009 Obama Advisers Flexible on Public Option Sep 7, 2009 How Can Clinicians Help Patients Make Decisions Consistent With Their Values? Sep 6, 2009 Agriculture industry cringes over video of chicks being tossed live into grinder Sep 6, 2009 Letters for Saturday, September 5, 2009 Sep 6, 2009 Ex-caretaker of 400 animals says he's victim of 'vendetta' Sep 5, 2009 Ag industry defends itself over grisly chick video Sep 5, 2009 Democrats are the ideologues on health care Sep 5, 2009 LETTER: System will reduce care to most defenseless Sep 5, 2009 Italy editor quits in row over PM Sep 4, 2009 Bursting At The Seams: Health Or Wealth? Sep 4, 2009 Right to reject medical care upheld Sep 4, 2009 Distortions -- or Truths? Sep 4, 2009 Doctor takes aim at health-care claims Sep 4, 2009 Reverse Nazism And The Healthcare War Sep 4, 2009 Letter Not Obamas health plan, but our plan Sep 4, 2009 Veterinarian unearths reminder of first dog euthanasia Sep 4, 2009 Republicans’ shameless senior moment Sep 4, 2009 Editorial: Invite public to health-care debate Sep 4, 2009 Health-Care Debate Continues in Region Sep 4, 2009 * US healthcare reform needs a shot in the Left Sep 3, 2009 Obama Weighs Major Speech on Health Care Sep 3, 2009 Sarah Palin, Meet Hippocrates Sep 3, 2009 Boy falls into a lion pit on Zookeeper set Sep 3, 2009 Humane Society, Animal Control have different roles Sep 3, 2009 Caretaker remembers Charlie Sep 3, 2009 Guilty by Association Sep 3, 2009 Pet Talk: Every hurricane report stirs up images of animals lost Sep 2, 2009 Survey and Discussion on UnWanted T... Sep 2, 2009
Rescue Rangers is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to save dogs at Metro Animal Control from euthanasia by transporting them to no-kill rescue groups. Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) is hosting a huge garage sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the College Heights Community Center, 1927 S. Walnut St., the old Garfield School gymnasium. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Fact checking Sep 19, 2009
Dr. Emanuel is a leading opponent of euthanasia and a proponent of a guaranteed healthcare access plan for all. In the first quote, Dr. Emanuel was writing about how to make ethical choices when forced to choose which patients get organ transplants or vaccines when supplies are limited. (Boerne Star, TX)
Currently we waste millions of taxpayer dollars on sheltering and euthanasia. Preventing over-breeding will drastically reduce these costs. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
This opens the door to potential development of a eugenics plan, and a euthanasia plan (note, also, end-of-life provisions elsewhere in the bill) to enhance the balance of wellness (a measure, the likes of Hitler would have welcomed, to speed up his infamous program). It would seem that the president, and a large number of those elected to Congress, are bent on messing up a lot of things, and taking over important decisions in our lives ("power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"). (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
What happened to his motheras he describes itwas not euthanasia. It was not voluntary euthanasia; it was certainly not involuntary euthanasia. (Townhall.com)
Page last updated at 12:49 GMT, Thursday, 17 September 2009 13:49 UK. It is not clear how far EU "guarantees" will sway Irish Catholics. (BBC News -- Europe)
DOLITTLER: VIEWS FROM A VET. an award-winning blog on pet health; she writes weekly for the Miami Herald and monthly for Veterinary Practice News. (USA Today -- Life)
Euthanasia is often a kinder alternative to returning beached whales to the sea, because often the damage is already done and returning the animal can cause more suffering. Beached whales will often die of complications that they endured from being out of the water and many continue to re-beach themselves. (Suite101.com)
The audit also criticized the facility's handling of money, record keeping and euthanasia procedures. Bobby Bowen, county code enforcement manager, has led the department on an interim basis since February. (Florida Today)
The center coordinates the procuring of research animals, houses animals at multiple sites around the campus and offers various scientific services to researchers, including breeding, tissue collection and analysis, and animal restraint during experimentation and euthanasia. In addition to the research, officials have touted the Amistad Building itself, which earned an LEED Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council for its environmentally friendly features. (FOX61, CT)
It contains everything from sharpshooters to euthanasia to protective fencing and birth control. Thomas says the lesson she learned while watching deer from her New Hampshire farmhouse was that they are very social animals. (USA Today -- Life)
Cases of euthanasia jump in Belgium after new law. Cases of euthanasia in Belgium's Flanders region soared to nearly 2 percent of all deaths in 2007 after the country legalized the practice a few years earlier, a medical study has shown ... The survey, conducted by an end-of-life research group at the Brussels-based Free University, said the rise was ma 00003F4D inly due to Belgium's 2002 euthanasia law, which gave terminally ill patients more choices. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Busting A Myth About Roe v. Wade. Busting A Myth About Roe v. Wade. (CBS News)
The pregnant female, who was named Summer, was taken by a Saving Animals From Euthanasia chapter north of Tampa. Lady Di and her pup got a ride to a foster home north of Orlando, where the younger dog is being treated for malnutrition and kennel cough. (Click2Houston, TX)
The center, which is accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, coordinates the procurement of research animals, houses 00004000 animals at multiple sites around the campus, and offers various scientific services to researchers, including breeding, tissue collection and analysis, animal restraint during experimentation and euthanasia. In a recent school directory, the center had 67 people employed as animal technicians. (FOX61, CT)
The call came from (PNP), a nonprofit organization that attempts to save pets from euthanasia by transporting them from high volume shelters kill shelters to foster homes and ultimately, permanent homes. Schrager agreed and departed Hanscom for Woodbine, N.J., stopping in Islip, N.Y., to pick up his copilot Tom Harvey, an executive search consultant and avid pet lover. (Concord Journal, MA)
The charity Pilots N Paws flew the dogs from a shelter to a waiting rescue group in Florida, saving them from euthanasia ... The pregnant female, who was named Summer, was taken by a Saving Animals From Euthanasia chapter north of Tampa. (MSNBC -- Health)
The ASPCA is a non-profit which advocates laws against cruelty to animals, works with shelters across the U.S. to end unnecessary euthanasia of pets that can be adopted and offers distaster readiness support experts to work with state agencies to help create emergency plans for pets. The charms, which features two halves, one for the owner to place on their jewelry and another to attach to a pet's collar, will be sold until Oct. 31. (Williston Daily Herald, ND)
He's the mad scientist who is calling for mandatory euthanasia and sterilization and population control and so on. MILLER: How. (Fox News)
The charity Pilots N Paws flew the dogs from a shelter to a waiting rescue group in Florida, saving them from euthanasia ... The charity transports animals from euthanasia shelters to other states for adoption ... The pregnant female, who was named Summer, was taken by a Saving Animals From Euthanasia chapter north of Tampa. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
The Alaska proclamation was "not evaluating whether your life is worth surgery or a pill -- or maybe even assisted death. It was not law of the land, cost taxpayers nothing and did not incentivize end-of-life health care cost reduction, Stapleton said. YouTube: Blumenauer s office noted that the House provision also was voluntary until the patient received a terminal diagnosis and that euthanasia was illegal in all 50 states. Further the provision blocked funding for physician-assisted suicide... (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR)
He said the President was trying to insert a provision into the health-care bill to perform euthanasia on the terminally ill and senior citizens. The Washington rally was organised by members of the Tea Party Patriots group and the National Taxpayers Union, among other conservative groups, and promoted by Fox News commentator Glenn Beck. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Established in February 2008, the nonprofit group organizes volunteer pilots to rescue shelter animals from euthanasia by flying them to new homes. To date, Pilots N Paws estimates it has rescued more than 2,000 animals. (ABC News)
Euthanasia enters the scene to save one team further humiliation. No, we didn t hit, but we passed our quota of errors. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
He said Obama was trying to insert a provision into the health-care bill to perform euthanasia on the terminally ill and senior citizens. We have to stop him, said Batterson, who said he was working with a group that supports former third-party presidential candidate. (Bloomberg -- US)
"I feel like I'm doing the right thing" by saving dogs from euthanasia, Stonehocker said. She gets dogs from SPCA shelters, and now has 60 dogs. (Fresno Bee)
This event is in collaboration with the Animal Shelter Alliance of Portland, whose mission is to end the euthanasia of healthy, social, and treatable cats and dogs. For more on Bonnie L. Hays Small Animal Shelter, contact 503-846-7041, stop by at 1901 SE 24th Avenue, Hillsboro, or view adoptable pets at www. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
THE Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has used one of his television stations to deny any rift with the Catholic Church, pledging that his Government will prove this when parliament debates euthanasia. A HISTORIC - and potentially disastrous - schism has opened between church and state in Italy after the embattled Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, used a newspaper owned by his brother Paolo to stage a virulent attack on the editor of the nation's main Catholic newspaper. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Newt Gingrinch accuses reform proponents of planning to impose or forced euthanasia on unsuspecting citizens. Limbaugh chimes in with more falsehoods to the effect that the healthcare reforms will led to a pull the plug on grandma and similar nonsense. (Slate)
One of the more renowned phrases in the ancient oath is: Above all, do no harm but issues like abortion and euthanasia seem to contradict this rule. Many modern interpretations challenge lines in the Hippocratic Oath that refer to them. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
BRUSSELS - Cases of euthanasia in Belgium's Flanders region soared to nearly 2 percent of all deaths in 2007 after the country legalized the practice a few years earlier, a medical study has shown. The survey, conducted by an end-of-life research group at the Brussels-based Free University, said the rise was mainly due to Belgium's 2002 euthanasia law, which gave terminally ill patients more choices ... "We found that the enactment of the Belgian euthanasia law was followed by an increase in all... (MSNBC -- Health)
Hy-Line has said "instantaneous euthanasia" is standard industry practice. But its Tuesday statement says some practices depicted in the video don't reflect the company's standard procedures. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
One specific problem was a "bypass of the instantaneous euthanasia process," the statement said, referring to a machine called a macerator that is used to grind up the live chicks almost instantly. The video depicted a conveyor dropping the chicks into a auger that feeds them into the macerator. (Sioux City Journal)
THE Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has used one of his television stations to deny any rift with the Catholic Church, pledging that his Government will prove this when parliament debates euthanasia. In a no-holds-barred interview on a morning TV program on Channel 5 on Monday, Mr Berlusconi said relations with the Vatican were ''excellent'' and reports of tension were lies. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
The former speaker of the House defends Sarah Palin's Facebook page, and thinks healthcare reform will lead to euthanasia, even though it's nowhere in the bill. responds. (Salon)
"This is one case where I believe in euthanasia... we need to kill this bill. "We need to kill it decisively, and use this victory for babies' lives and our liberties to keep Obama to one term. He is a villain in this epic battle, and he needs to be tarred with the mire of his arrogance. (PR Newswire)
Doc Hastings of Pasco said "the biggest issue is the euthanasia part of this." Republicans have charged a House bill would create "death panels," but independent fact-checkers have said that wasn't true. With Obama scheduled to deliver a major health care speech Wednesday to a joint session of Congress, no other issue this fall so dominates the political landscape on Capitol Hill or with constituents back home. (Longview Daily News, WA)
As President Barack Obama prepares for a Wednesday night speech to Congress in a risky bid to salvage his top domestic priority, no other issue is so highly charged. Obama's liberal supporters consider the proposal for a public plan to compete with private insurers do-or-die. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Unsubstantiated allegations that the legislation would promote euthanasia grabbed headlines. But beneath such controversies, voters appear most concerned about the scope and costs of the bill - around $1 trillion over 10 years. (CBS News)
Is euthanasia acceptable if it prevents needless suffering. Many of us will have to face some. (Science Daily)
It would be the same as handing over power and authority to chemical companies to decide what is an appropriate level of toxic waste to dump into nearby streams and groundwater," Runkle complained. Hy-Line North America said it will investigate the Iowa hatchery but emphasized that "instantaneous euthanasia" is a standard practice. The United Egg Producers, a trade group, said it, too, would investigate Hy-Line. In a statement, it also said the industry is researching methods for breeding... (WWLTV.com, LA)
Ecoscience calls for a planetary regime to enforce totalitarian population control measures, i.e. coerced abortions, infanticide, euthanasia and sterilization as population growth solutions. While in the Illinois Legislature in 2002, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, an act to protect babies that survived late-term abortions. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Pang had specifically told Kishimori he did not want the assistance of the Hawaiian Humane Society because his wife, who began the animal shelter nearly two decades ago, disapproved of the society's euthanasia policy. That, and the fact that the society had taken Bonnie to court in 1995 for cruelty to animals, although a judge dismissed the case. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Hy-Line North America said it will investigate the Iowa hatchery but emphasized that "instantaneous euthanasia" is a standard practice. The United Egg Producers, a trade group, said it, too, would investigate Hy-Line. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
AND WHERE IS THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE VARIOUS SHILLS OF THEIR ILK HAVE BEEN MISLEADING THE PUBLIC WITH DEATH PANELS AND EUTHANASIA FOR THE ELDERLY AND RATIONING AND FORCED ENROLLMENT, AND THE REST OF THE LIES. No, not a word about the dis-information campaign that has led to violent town-hall meetings, armed citizens in the streets talking about killing tyrants , the politics of US VERSUS THEM which pits citizens against each other, the SOCIALIST or NAZI rantings of... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
" "I couldn't believe this was happening to me," says Emanuel, who in addition to spending his career opposing euthanasia and working to increase the quality of care for dying patients is the brother of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. "It is incredible how much one's reputation can be besmirched and taken out of context ... sister wrote on Sep 4, 2009 11:15 PM:" I cannot believe how deep and wide the lies are going. The lunatics have clearly taken over the asylum on the right!! Dr.... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Mr Berlusconi relies on the support of Catholic voters, while the Church had seen Mr Berlusconi as an ally on issues like euthanasia and abortion. But Mr Boffo is highly regarded within the Church, and the damaging allegations about his private life will be seen as an indirect attack on the Church itself. (BBC News -- Europe)
A kindness (euthanasia. we human beings dare not extend to our own kind. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
But they could not contain instructions for euthanasia or assisted suicide. Join the conversation. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Nor is there any doctor's right to perform euthanasia or mercy-killing. Obama's resolve to cut health care costs, at the same time he repeatedly reminds us that half of all such costs are incurred in the last six months of life, however, points straight to rationed care for the elderly ill, where drugs, procedures and operations necessary to life are going to be curtailed or cut off. (Human Events Online)
Then he started hearing some of the arguments against health-care reform -- euthanasia for older Americans, doctor rationing. This was a job for a quack buster. (News & Observer)
Health insurance for all means euthanasia for me ... By contrast, it is private, profit-motivated insurance companies--which deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions and restrict one's choice of doctor, medical treatments and length of hospital stays (based on actuarial tables)--that bear the greatest resemblance to a mulching euthanasia machine. (CBS News)
Oh, yes getting a health care proxy in place is not euthanasia. It is a healthy discussion of what the person wants at the end of life. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
" Remember the last time you moved and all the crap trucked out by the curb or donated to Goodwill? This go-round is perhaps even more thorough than that. It's the kind of massive clean-out we engage in only a few times in a lifetime ... if we can bring ourselves to do it. You know how it is. Whether it's time to move or just time to sit down and mindfully organize your life's possessions, it's always frustrating to sort through the chaff ... but immensely rewarding to rediscover the wheat along... (USA Today -- Life)
And if we may go back to the voluntary end-of-life conversations so deliberately framed as euthanasia, this may yet produce a gray backlash. Remember when conservatives thought that rescuing Terri Schiavo was a political winner. (Boston Globe)
And those morons spreading the lie that anything being proposed in Washington sanctions government-ordered euthanasia should be corrected in strong language. It was nice to see one of those far-right neo-con LaRouche loonies get their distorted nonsense tossed back in their face. (West Roxbury Transcript, MA)
At no point is euthanasia even implied. A moral concern: federally-funded abortions. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
But life expectancy in the UK is higher than in the US, meaning that even with our supposed state-sponsored euthanasia our grannies still live longer than theirs. In a blend of the comic and the tragic one protester, who was hospitalized after he got into a fight at a town hall meeting in St Louis, had to have a whip-round to pay for his medical bill as he had no health insurance. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
" Congressperson Virginia Fox (R-North Carolina) "Healthcare reform will lead to senior citizens being put to death by their government". Sen. James Inhole (R-Oklahoma) "Birthers have a point". Fox News' Glenn Beck "Obama is a racist". Rush Limbaugh "Obama's healthcare will mean the end of the United States as we know it". "Obama and the Chinese are brothers in communism" "Obama wants euthanasia". The founder of Operation Rescue, a ultra right wing Bible thumping group: "violent convulsions will... (CBS News)
All of the provisions to be included in the final bill are not yet known, but one thing is certain: There is not a single statement in the voluminous number of pages under study that contains the slightest consideration, no matter its remoteness, of death panels, euthanasia, or any such fearsome concept ... In the midst of this crucial debate on the future of health care, somehow, the proponents of the euthanasia talking point seem to have forgotten everything we know about the practice of... (CBS News)
He said no animal would be killed or was ever truly threatened with euthanasia. He said the zoo had responded to the budget cut by spreading inaccurate and incendiary information. (MSNBC -- Movies)
McGrew, who has 11 years experience in animal control, said in some cases, euthanasia is unavoidable due to space constraints ... Euthanasia can be an every day thing. (Port Lavaca Wave, TX)
"Then the vet administers the euthanasia drug. The animal has no awareness of what's happening. That way, the animal's just going to sleep and they just don't wake up.". And Charlie drifted softly off to his final rest. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
" This is the second time Bill has made this false claim, the first being by taking a quote out of context in a column a few weeks ago.Dr. Emmanuel is an oncologist who has written more than 1,000,000 words about bioethicts, McCaughey and Bill have pulled a few of those words completely out of context to distort what Emmanuel believes. Here's 2 points of truth about Emmanuel:He opposes euthanasia under all circumstances, even if it's what the patient wants.He's written about the complex decision... (Cameron Observer, MO)
With limited space, no place to send the overflow, and animals arriving by the hour that they were required by law to admit, shelter officials made awful euthanasia choices every day. I met dozens of those animals, like Sir and Katie, that got love and care and then their time ran out. (USA Today -- Life)
Reasons given for the problem included the closure of slaughterhouses, the economy, unmanageable costs of euthanasia, and changes in demand for certain breeds. June "Welfare of the Horse" Forum. (Suite101.com)
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