Euthanasia: If It is Good for the Goose, It isn't Good for the Human

Just because euthanasia is sometimes used on animals, does not make it acceptable for humans.

Palliative Care Options
Palliative care or the ability to help patients manage pain virtually removes the motive for suggesting murder as the way to end suffering. Animals do not have many palliative care options available to them. Lack of funding, and sometimes lack of compassion have hindered the advance of pain control for animals. This is really an indictment of those controlling the wealth. They clearly do not have the compassion to fund develop of better ways to eliminate animal pain. However, animal euthanasia is not a valid reason to legalize the murder of the terminally ill.

The Merciless Netherlands
There has been very little research or advancement of palliative care in the Netherlands since euthanasia and infanticide have become both legal and accepted. The Dutch culture has apparently embraced the murder of humans. without giving much thought to pain relief. This is horrible, and should produce shame in Dutch lawmakers and their medical community. It strikes me as hypocritical that now Dutch medicine is focusing on ending lives, rather than bringing comfort to suffering patients. The healing profession is now the harming profession.

When any group of citizens and their lawmakers accept the legalization of assisted suicide, infanticide and other forms of euthanasia, their focus moves to killing the sick and infirm, but not healing them. Killing replaces compassion. Human rights are driven by mercenary rather than moral motives.

The Wrong Focus
We in the anti-euthanasia, and pro-life movements are often accused of lacking compassion for the terminally ill. I ask you, is it compassionate to spend considerable sums of money lobbying and advocating the murder of the terminally ill? Is it compassionate to spend considerable legal fees to permit the murder of those various forms of live support? Or, is it really compassionate to use this money to research better ways to reduce pain in the terminally ill? Isn't it truly compassionate to research ways to enhance the lives of the physically disabled, or the mentally ill? You be the judge.

I say true love, care, and better palliative care are the noble and moral courses of action.

HHH