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California approves nurse-assisted suicide
Schwarzenegger signs bill authorizing dehydration, starvation of patients

SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has officially approved an assisted suicide measure allowing nurses to sedate, dehydrate and starve depressed or confused individuals they consider to be “terminally ill.”

The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Patty Berg, a Democrat, passed the California Assembly Aug. 28, and the state Senate Aug. 20. It was signed by the governor yesterday.

The legislation, called the “Terminal Patients’ Right to Know End of Life Options Act,” or AB 2747, passed by a 42 to 34 vote. An Aug. 20 Senate vote of 21 to 17 ushered the measure to the governor’s desk for signing.

Randy Thomasson, chief of the Campaign for Children and Families, said the legislation is dangerous and should have been vetoed by Gov. Schwarzenegger.

“AB 2747 pushes suicide through the back door at the hands of non-physicians taking advantage of depressed patients,” he said in a statement. “AB 2747 cheapens the value of human life by endorsing suicide as an option.”

The measure allows physician assistants and nurses to decide whether a person is “terminally ill” and deprive them of basic life-sustaining necessities such as food and water.

“Depressed patients who succumb to this pressure will be drugged unconscious and die from dehydration, usually within five to 10 days,” Thomasson said. “Nothing in the bill prohibits this horror.”

Thomasson said Berg “deceptively changed” the bill to appear that “voluntarily stopping of eating and drinking” and “palliative sedation” no longer were on a list of “symptom management” options.

“The bill does not otherwise attempt to expressly define terminal illness that each of these health care professionals would have to diagnose to trigger the offer of counseling end of life option,” Tran said. “It is not clear why nurse practitioners and physician assistants could make such a significant diagnosis. It is further not clear from the bill how making such significant diagnoses on a case-by-case basis can be done by such practitioners and assistants based on so-called ‘standardized procedures and protocols’ not further defined by the bill. The potential effect of AB 2747 is extremely broad and could cause irrevocable harm.”

Schwarzenegger has been a rutting pig Governor, mainly ruling as a Liberal Democrat. He is worse than Gray Davis was, he is scum of the first magnitude as far as I am concerned.

This makes para-professional health care providers responsible for diagnosing end of life patients and being in charge of helping these people die through the ugly process of dehydration and starvation, while sedated of course and with no hope of changing their minds. Of course, these patients are most often depressed, suffering mentally and emotionally to the point of not being able to make rational decisions, but that’s okay these para-professionals will encourage them to “off” themselves anyway. Well except these patient’s really won’t be committing suicide, these para-professionals will actually be murdering them after counselling them to die, which makes them accessories to First Degree homicide, a crime for which they should be executed.

If you want to kill yourself, like my 90+ year-old father-in-law did last weekend, just take a gun and pull the trigger, take some pills, suck in exhaust fumes, hang yourself, have fun; but do not ask the state, in my name, to murder you because you are too gutless to do the job yourself.

Schwarzenegger should be charged with being an accessory to these murders, but what can you expect from a European, atheist socialist, liberal, scum sucking pig!

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