The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
No financial reward in palliative care.Too costly.Much better financially to simply allow doctors to give these people 'death with dignity'-and it won't be just for the old and infirm.No. We must allow teenagers and even the very young to chose death over hospital/hospice care.Think of the thousands ,nigh millions of dollars will be saved.Now if only the bishops (little chance of Arch types getting involved) would demand that every diocese have palliative care ,promote it and pay for it through Sunday collections.They could start by reminding Catholic politicians of their obligation to follow church law..but..that horse has already bolted.
ReplyDeleteAnon: I can only hope that you are speaking sarcastically by equating the value of human life with money. One cannot and should not reduce a human life to a cost/benefit analysis. As to paying for pastoral care, the Church in fact funds many hospices which provides quality palliative care using its own resources to build and maintain them. We are working to build such a hospice here in Chapeau without depending upon government funding.
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Indeed I was so speaking. Yet there have been reports of some who have seen this law of death as being financially good for the health system. Good for you and your efforts to build a hospice . I wonder if you have the full support of the hierarchy??
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