Euthanasia Not About Ending Uncontrollable Pain – National Review

The euthanasia movement fear mongers its agendaas a means of preventing an agonizing death in pain that cannot be controlled. Its all a false pitch. Thats not why its actually done.

Rather, existential anguish drives people to seek doctor-administered or prescribed termination.That has been experience in Oregon. Now too, Canada. From a study published in theNew England Journal of Medicine;

Those who received MAiD[medical aid in dying] tended to be white and relatively affluent and indicated that loss of autonomy was the primary reason for their request.

Other common reasons included the wish to avoid burdening others or losing dignity and the intolerability of not being able to enjoy ones life.

Few patients cited inadequate control of pain or other symptoms.

These are important issues that need to be addressed through vigorous suicide prevention and other mental health interventions.

But they are not provided. Instead, the desire to die for fear of being a burden or losing autonomy is validated withthe lethal jab or the poison pills. And then, that type of death is pushed toward normalization.

Not providing vigorous interventions for existential anguish islike depriving a cancer patientof morphine, and then helping her diebecause she is in so much pain.

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Euthanasia Not About Ending Uncontrollable Pain - National Review