Terminally ill patients who seek an assisted death have no desire to end their life. Calling their decision ‘assisted suicide’ can have harmful consequences.
In what would be better described as a state-killing, an Ontario woman stricken with a painful debilitating illness is seeking a medically-assisted death, because she cannot find an affordable apartment that does not aggravate her condition.
The pro-euthanasia case is promoted and buttressed by stories of ‘bad’ natural deaths, those where great suffering is experienced, and ‘good’ euthanasia deaths, those were suffering is promptly and completely eradicated through the intentional extinguishing of life, itself, by using euthanasia. The case against euthanasia is much more difficult to promote, not because it is weak it is not but because it is much more complex. By Margaret Somerville
AARP Hosts vaccine town hall for kupuna
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The vaccine rollout here in Hawaii is limited to how many doses are sent our way. Every Thursday, the state is told how much of a supply we will receive the following week. The logistics can be problematic as health officials are trying to schedule as many people in the high risk group without wasting the precious vaccines. AARP Hawaii is reaching out to our kupuna who may not have access to computers this weekend via phone. It s a chance for kupuna to ask questions about the COVID vaccine rollout. Executive Director