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Thursday, January 25, 2018
VOTE NO: DELAWARE'S ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL HB160 BEING VOTED ON~IS LIFE MORE PRECIOUS THAN MONEY? OR IS IT CHEAPER TO KILL THAN TO CARE?
DELAWARE'S ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL HB160BEING VOTED ON~
IS LIFE MORE PRECIOUS THAN MONEY?
OR IS IT CHEAPER TO KILL THAN TO CARE?
Dying patients need love, not help to kill themselves, with Michael Brescia M.D. 6/14/16
Croton-on-Hudson, New York. June 14, 2016. Dr. Brescia's passion for
medicine comes from his exceptional sensitivity for the human
condition. Dr. Brescia's storied career spans decades of seemingly
miraculous developments in patient care, bio-medical sciences and
technology. He is renowned for his contribution to the creation of the
Brescia-Cimino Fistula, the most common means utilized for hemodialysis
over the last 40 years, making this life saving treatment available to
millions. He was instrumental in securing full accreditation for
Calvary Hospital in the 1960s and has been the driving force behind many
of its most successful initiatives including The Palliative Care
Institute, The Center for Curative & Palliative Wound Care, and its
Hospice, Home Care, and Nursing Home Hospice. Calvary's Inpatient
service and Outpatient Clinic are models for national and international
palliative care programs.
DR. BRESCIA
Dr. Brescia is a kidney doctor with decades of experience with treating
life-threatening illness. He has developed breakthough technologies
that took "terminal" out of thousands of people's diagnosis. With
assisted suicide laws relying heavily on correct diagnosis and
prognosis, which are so often wrong, how can we risk a person's life on a
guess?
Stephanie Packer was denied coverage for life saving cancer treatment but offered a prescription of Death Pills for only $1.20.
Dear John,
Imagine getting a letter from your insurance company stating that they
will cover your death pills or a "lethal jab" but not the treatment you
need to live.
...That's exactly what happened to Stephanie Packer, who was denied coverage for life saving cancer treatment but offered a prescription of Death Pills for only $1.20.
...And Randy Stroup, a 54 year old man in Oregon who was denied treatment for prostate cancer but offered Suicide as a "palliative care" plan.
...And Barbara Wagoner of Oregon, whose insurance company decided to pay for death pills but not for the treatment needed to save her life.
Why? Because it's cheaper to kill you than to care for you.
High-quality pain management and palliative care can be complex and certainly more expensive than the lethal dose of drugs that House Bill 160 (HB160) would legalize.
If assisted suicide is legalized in Delaware, it becomes a dangerously appealing means of medical cost control.
Dr. Callister: "As much as insurance companies want to come
across as your friend, it's a lot cheaper to grab a couple drugs and
kill you than it is to provide life saving therapy."
It gets worse...
HB 160 forces physicians to LIE on a patient's death certificate so the life insurance isn't affected.
That's right. HB160 states that "The death certificate must list the underlying terminal illness as the cause of death," (line 95) when in fact, assisted suicide was the cause of death. This protects physicians, not patients. HB160 offers zero accountability.
HB160 would also keep the public in the dark about the prevalence of
assisted suicide and would ensure that suicide providers operate in
secrecy with NO OVERSIGHT from any public health authority.
“Every time they ask a
physician to prognosticate on life expectancy... it's usually
wrong." -Dr. Bescia, Kidney Disease Expert and Co-inventor of
Cimino-Brescia Fistula Hemodialysis
HB160 makes assisted suicide a "medical
treatment" under law, using a slippery definition of "terminal disease"
that could apply to something as easily treated as diabetes.
Yes, diabetes.
By definition it's an "incurable and irreversible disease." which, if untreated, could lead to death within six months. HB160 does not indicate whether "incurable and irreversible" disease means a disease that can't be treated.
A treatable disease is considered terminal? That's a problem!
Randy Stroup, a 54 year old man in Oregon, was denied treatment for prostate cancer but offered Suicide as a "palliative care" plan.
Physicians
have a responsibility to provide life giving care. Everyone deserves to
have their dignity and worth affirmed and valued. HB160, however, in
the recently proposed amendment, fabricates a way for people with disabilities to give "informed consent" to assisted suicide if a social worker says the patient understands.
We're talking about people who can’t legally sign a contract, decide
where they live, or make their own medical decisions - YET - if they
have a "terminal" illness, they can "choose" assisted suicide as long as
a social worker confirms that the patient “understands” the treatment.
It doesn’t even require approval of a guardian, as would corrective surgery or palliative treatment.
Life is worth protecting and defending regardless of our state of health or medical prognosis.
Life Is Worth the Fight,
Nicole Theis
President, Delaware Family Policy Council (Eph 6:13)
More Stories:
When Oregon resident, Jeanette Hall, had less than a year to
live, she asked her cancer doctor for the pills to commit suicide. Dr.
Kenneth Stevens got to know her better and inspired her to consider
treatment. The tumor just “melted away” and now -- 15 years later --
Barbara Wagonner's insurance company decided to pay for death pills but not for the treatment needed to save her life.
JJ was diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most aggressive form
of brain cancer. He fought for his wife, his son, and his life.
Born without arms, John Foppe speaks to a way of life beyond
independence, namely inter-dependence: Together we are more. Assisted
suicide sells everyone short, so in times of illness or disability, he
encourages us to “step into life!”
You don’t discourage suicide by assisting suicide. “Every
suicide is tragic – whether you’re old or young, healthy or sick, your
life is worth living,” says Luke Maxwell, 19, who survived an attempt to
take his own life.
