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One of my wife’s dearest friends was told, at the age of 41, to get her affairs in order because she had a genetic disorder that affected the liver and lungs, and her life expectancy was very short.

She had two small children and a husband she wanted to spend more time with. So she lived. Through grit, determination, and a cornucopia of natural healing modalities (conventional medicine had, of course, nothing to offer) she lived nearly 20 years after her prognosis was given.

She lived to see her grandchildren. She was active in her church and in many groups in the community.

When she did finally pass she went into the hospital around Thanksgiving a couple years ago and ended up in a coma. She realized that she was going to end up dying on her daughter’s birthday and she was NOT going to cast a pall over that for the rest of her daughter’s life. So she woke up, recovered enough to go home and lived a few more weeks.

Among her final instructions to her husband was that she was to have her favorite pair of sunglasses with her in the casket. “Because where I’m going, it’s going to be bright.”

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The "doctor as healer" schtick had a good run.

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Excellent! That really made me chuckle.

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It really is just insane beyond belief that they made us stay at home alone for months just in case going for a walk introduced a tiny chance that granny died; and now we're showing adverts of women dancing while passing granny the pills if she's getting near the end. I just don't know where to begin. As a younger man, I had a persistent nagging thought - "what if the apocalypse is here already? What if it won't be Mad Max-like, it is some other version and this is it?". At least I no longer have this question nagging at me, the answer seems clear.

So the people in care homes were not allowed to take a chance to see their relatives, they could only wave at them through windows; but they are allowed to kill themselves? So taking a chance of dying was prohibited, but certain death is ok?

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You're right. This is pretzel-brain stuff.

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Both event was about killing off people. Communication was different but actions matter more. The normies are the problem who can digest and be on good terms with both messages at the same time.

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The woman is still in her pajamas. She just wants to use death as an excuse not to go to work.

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We are more in need of a bill to kill our doctors.

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Become a certified BMW Service Center, and wait for the doctors to show up. Then hit them with the bill.

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The UK has had an unofficial euthanasia policy managed by 'rNHS' and it was called the Liverpool Care Pathway. This eventually led to complaints but not so much about the withdrawal of food and water but more that it appeared to be unfair to single out the city of Liverpool as it was applied across the UK. The solution was not to change the process but to rename it the End of Life Pathway, trebles all round.

With regard to the point about the ability of the medical profession to make predictions regarding the timing of death, I defer to the Trust the Evidence Substack whose review of a BMJ paper and one other are summarised thus 'Given that no sub-group of clinicians was consistently shown to be more accurate than any other, who does the Secretary of State have in mind with the training, qualifications, and experience to be no better than chance when predicting a person's death within 6 months?' (check their Substack for references).

What we can predict with more certainty is that like Canada, The Netherlands and States in the USA that have implemented similar the threshold will be lowered over time until ultimately it is a 'lifestyle' choice and further breaks the link to the sanctity of life.

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I cannot understand why suicide whether aided or not is some kind of crime?

‘The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.’

Socrates trial.

‘To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.’

Twilight of the Idols.

Nietzsche

The state is happy to murder millions and to deprive more millions of their freedom (to walk unmolested in a park for instance) and yet feels they have the right to decide when and how someone who wants to die is stopped from doing so.

A doctor cannot give you barbiturates to help you on your way, but Starmer can condemn thousands to die of hypothermia.

Is this a sick, sick world or what?

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Nietzsche was a jerk and his words are the grasping plea of people who didn't love their children and friends while in the prime of their health.

You take your leave before you leave and since you never know when that is going to be (an assisted suicide law is not going to prevent disease, accident, disaster, etc) you do it every day you're alive.

Fuck Nietzsche.

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Funny post. Serious matter, but funnily presented. Thank you. I love the humor. In fact, I need it these days, desperately. Yes, it's now officially legal to murder patients. It was always permitted, and carried out routinely, but what a relief for the doctors that it's official now;-)

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No man is an island,


Entire of itself,


Every man is a piece of the continent,


A part of the main.


If a clod be washed away by the sea,


Europe is the less.
As was as if a promontory were.


As well if a manor of thy friend's


Or of thine own were:


Any man's death diminishes me,


Because I am involved in mankind,


And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;


It tolls for thee.

John Donne 1624

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It seems, these days, that suicide is only tragic if you are transgender.

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Brilliant observation.

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Or a Capitol Police officer on January 6

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Not content with overwhelming themselves with anti-Western illegals and below-replacement fertility, the increasingly matriarchal West moves on to officially-sanctioned & encouraged iatrogenicide.

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Yeah really. In the end you get put down like a dog, without ever having had the pleasure of peeing on the rug.

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Well, get to it!

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Next you'll ask me to lick my own nuts.

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I swear on the souls of my ancestors and my progeny that the following anecdote it’s true. In the early 1980s, a farmer’s market type venue in Pennsauken, NJ hosted a small business in a permanent stall that sold DIY pest exterminating supplies, and spiritual-psychology self help books. The name of the business on the shingle hanging over the entrance was “Kill Yourself.” I was there. I saw it. It wasn’t there for too long. Pennsauken Mart was torn down in the late 80s.

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A GOOD DEATH?

In Case You Missed It Then: Watch The Heartbreaking Documentary By Jacqui Deevoy Made Three Years Ago, In 2021, About The Killing Apparatus And How It Ran

Now It All "Makes Sense."

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/a-good-death-in-case-you-missed-it

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The serpent's original lie: "You won't surely die; you'll be like God!"

The serpent's latest variant: "OK, I lied; you will die. And well, let's be honest, you aren't as God-like as you probably thought you'd be. But trust me: You'll feel a God-like rush mastering your fate*, captaining your soul*, dictating to Him how you break His commandment against murder."

*briefly

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This has American echoes. Seems the American Dr Death has faded into history.

Dr Jack Kevorkian reveled in gadgets he created to allow others to kill themselves. He presided over more than 100 deaths.

Tellingly and ironically, Kevorkian, unlike those he happily offed, fought his own death valiantly. He died at 83 (in 2011), in the hospital, after a month of treatment for pneumonia and kidney disease. He was planning for rehab after his release.

Dr Death did 8 years in prison for 2nd degree murder. He was released early (in 2007) after claiming to suffer from diabetes, hepatitis C and other health problems.

There are so many health care workers who thrill in the life/death power they wield. There are many cases that have come to light of them carrying out serial killings of patients under their care. How many cases are there that aren't discovered? How many secret Kevorkians are there?

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43265235

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Look up Harold Shipman in the UK. He killed hundreds of his elderly patients. He only got caught when his fake papers leaving cash to himself was uncovered by a concerned relation. He didn't steal from them all.....

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Oh Briggs! Thou art the court jester indeed. To wit: Medicine-the 'profession' that makes evil good.

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