Since the consent to euthanasia was conditioned on "when she felt the time was ripe", once her cognitive abilities declined to the point that she could no longer participate in decision making that condition became impossible to meet. The consent should have effectively been revoked then and there.
The fact that they surreptitiously drugged her tells me that they knew they did not have her consent, further reinforced by her physical resistance when she became aware of what they were doing. I'm pretty sure this person would have been convicted in the US; the son in law too. And the civil trial- holy shit, the optics of shoving down a struggling 74-year-old woman so they can jab her with a needle with a lethal poison would make any plaintiff's attorney lick his chops.
Opponents of euthanasia have always said that it's a very short step from voluntary suicide to the state making the decision for you, for which they are roundly mocked as arguing a ridiculous slippery slope. But between this story and Canada actively trying to sell people on getting euthanized, it looks like they were right all along.
Look at Canada, all that's needed is for it to be for the good of the state - dementia healthcare is expensive, you know, just think how many better ways that taxpayer money could be spent!
Why, the minister's official car is a whole eighteen months old! Simply unacceptable!
I believed I was working within the boundaries of the law
Behold the last refuge of the rationalist, nihilist coward. Their only value system is 'I don't want to get in trouble so I want the powerful to rationalise ways for me to do the things I want to do; failing that I want power for myself.'
It just dawned on me that an advance directive had better have a clause stipulating that euthanasia proceed if the person is demented and no longer remembers creating the document.
Since the consent to euthanasia was conditioned on "when she felt the time was ripe", once her cognitive abilities declined to the point that she could no longer participate in decision making that condition became impossible to meet. The consent should have effectively been revoked then and there.
The fact that they surreptitiously drugged her tells me that they knew they did not have her consent, further reinforced by her physical resistance when she became aware of what they were doing. I'm pretty sure this person would have been convicted in the US; the son in law too. And the civil trial- holy shit, the optics of shoving down a struggling 74-year-old woman so they can jab her with a needle with a lethal poison would make any plaintiff's attorney lick his chops.
Opponents of euthanasia have always said that it's a very short step from voluntary suicide to the state making the decision for you, for which they are roundly mocked as arguing a ridiculous slippery slope. But between this story and Canada actively trying to sell people on getting euthanized, it looks like they were right all along.
The slippery slope is much closer to being an ironclad law of the universe than a fallacy at this point.
It's because the left doesn't have any limiting principles
Dude, this killed a bit of my heart. What a precedent to set, yikes.
What do you mean this is perfectly fine....
Slips money to a doctor to claim suffering of parent
Perfectly fine.....
Euthenizes parent for inheritance
See perfectly fine
Strokes money
Look at Canada, all that's needed is for it to be for the good of the state - dementia healthcare is expensive, you know, just think how many better ways that taxpayer money could be spent!
Why, the minister's official car is a whole eighteen months old! Simply unacceptable!
Behold the last refuge of the rationalist, nihilist coward. Their only value system is 'I don't want to get in trouble so I want the powerful to rationalise ways for me to do the things I want to do; failing that I want power for myself.'
It just dawned on me that an advance directive had better have a clause stipulating that euthanasia proceed if the person is demented and no longer remembers creating the document.
Guess they don't have to wait for their credit to improve to get land now.