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Swiss Hospital to Allow Assisted Suicide
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| Cowboy 2005-12-19, 5:59 pm |
| http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/19/D8EJCO2G1.html
Swiss Hospital to Allow Assisted Suicide
A Swiss hospital has agreed to let an assisted-suicide organization
help terminally ill patients take their own lives on its premises. A
spokesman for the Vaud university Hospital Center confirmed reports in
Swiss newspapers Saturday that, starting in January, it would let the
Exit society assist in the suicide of people already admitted to the
hospital who can no longer go home.
The hospital will not accept people whose only goal in entering "is to
prepare to end his life," said Alberto Crespo, who is responsible for
law and ethics at the hospital. "The purpose of a hospitalization
remains therapeutic treatment."
Exit is allowed to help terminally ill Swiss residents commit suicide
elsewhere in Switzerland. Depending on local law, the suicides
sometimes take place in a designated apartment or the patient's home.
Crespo said his hospital was the first of five university hospitals in
Switzerland to work with Exit.
Switzerland's policy is passive assistance to terminally ill people who
have expressed a wish to die.
Elsewhere in Europe, Netherlands legalized euthanasia in 2001 and
Belgium in 2002.
Britain passed a a law in December 2004 allowing living wills _
documents that allow people to specify their medical treatment if they
become seriously ill and lose the capacity to decide.
France enables the terminally ill or those with no hope of recovery to
refuse treatment in favor of death. Doctors are allowed to administer
painkillers, even if their secondary effects include shortening
patients' lives. The law stops short of allowing euthanasia.
Europe's top human rights body rejected euthanasia as a legitimate
means to end life in April.
In the United States, Oregon voters approved the first physician-
assisted suicide law in the United States in 1994. The law took effect
after an appeals court lifted a block in 1997, but it is under legal
challenge.
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| QQQte@webtv.net 2005-12-20, 1:03 am |
| thanks cowboy for keep dropping in the asms.... am i right to think it
means hello:-) also..... hope your doing ok.
assisted suicide is of interest to me and now i think i'll decied where
to move... take care... dory
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| GT Tick 2005-12-20, 1:03 am |
| Dory you don't need to cross oceans to find help with assisted suicide.
When you or someone you know needs the help just come to Texas. I'll be
glad to show you inexpensive, efficient ways. Let's see, in a beer
joint on any Saturday night...insult a cowboy's girlfriend or vice
versa. Laugh at a cowboy's big 'ol belt buckle. Badmouth high school
football. Make fun of Da Boys gettin they XXX trumped 35-7 by the
'Skins.
Wander out into the middle of a tractor pull. Drive your cutesy little
Honda or Toyota in front of a monster 4 X 4. Join PETA, ALF and ELF and
walk through the woods bangin' on a tin pan on the opening day of deer
season.
Eat a bowl of my chili without a fire extinguisher.
I have more...
Hugs,
Tick
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Re: Swiss Hospital to Allow Assisted Suicide
Group: alt.support.mult-sclerosis Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2005, 5:06pm
(CST-2) From: QQQte@webtv.net
thanks cowboy for keep dropping in the asms.... am i right to think it
means hello:-) also..... hope your doing ok.
assisted suicide is of interest to me and now i think i'll decied where
to move... take care... dory
*****Don't Cry Because It's Over...Smile Because It Happened.*****
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| QQQte@webtv.net 2005-12-20, 10:58 am |
| the chili sounds like the only way to go.:-) yummy... i can eat the
hottest chili ever known to man kind... but i'll bet that texas chili of
yours would do the trick:-) do you keep a bowl of tums on the table?..
big smiles over all your ideas.... what a cheap way to go..... i'll be
there by stage coach:-) .... dory
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| QQQte@webtv.net wrote:
> the chili sounds like the only way to go.:-) yummy... i can eat the
> hottest chili ever known to man kind... but i'll bet that texas chili of
> yours would do the trick:-) do you keep a bowl of tums on the table?..
> big smiles over all your ideas.... what a cheap way to go..... i'll be
> there by stage coach:-) .... dory
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I'll be making chili & cornbread on Christmas Eve. Its sort of a
tradition in my family that the men made chili & clam chowder on
Christmas Eve, and the women made the Christmas dinner.
I'm sure that my chili can't hold a candle to Tick's, I have to keep it
mild or nobody else will even go near it! Wimps ;-)
Alex
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GT Tick wrote:
> football. Make fun of Da Boys gettin they XXX trumped 35-7 by the
> 'Skins.
Whoops, that would be *my* form of assisted suicide!
or i could just go into a bar in Indianapolis with my Chargers gear and
lightning bolts painted all over my body, i guess....that might be more
likely to lead to suicide in others, depending on just *how*
humiliating it was for fans of the mighty, mighty Colts to get their
helmets handed to them by, y'know, the *San Diego Chargers*!!! :->
or i could go to my old neighborhood and stand on a corner 'speaking'
in Sign Language -- some of the gangbangers use ASL to identify their
affiliation -- Logan and Lincoln both use the 'L' -- so talking to my
deaf friend L-isa might could be dangerous. =:o
reckon i could also drive down to the border and stand there, waiting
for a really big rock to hit me.
all in all, i'd rather stay here for Christmas dinner with family, and
soak up the Bolt Fever here, where it's appropriate. (still....35-7!!)
:D
rose
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| Cowboy 2005-12-23, 6:00 pm |
| Sure it means hello!
Been so busy on the weblog and editing the Paragon Foundation magazine,
plus trying to build a handicapped accessible home on my own property
(which is turning out to be a nightmare under county planning) that I
have not been able to post as much to the newsgroup as I would like.
Once I get the Special Use Permit from the county and the waiver from
the ETZ, maybe I can get back to posting more.
And to answer a question you posted earlier, the NMSU rodeo team is
doing great. After the fall rodeo season, both the men's and women's
teams are sitting in first place in the region. At the one rodeo I got
to attend, NMSU athletes won 7 of the 10 events. I think they had some
of Tick's chile before the competition!
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to everyone,
Cowboy
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| GT Tick 2005-12-23, 6:00 pm |
| The Paragon Foundation is a fine organization thrown in with Frank, and
you're doing a great job on the magazine although I don't know how you
find the time to edit it, stay involved with the NMSU rodeo program and
keep up with your blog at the same time. I should be so lucky to have
that energy and organizational skills.
And the bureaucracy you seem to be fighting just to get your home
comfortable needs to be taken to task. The labor and expense of getting
a home accessible and comfortable is bad enough without fighting the
yahoos down at city hall.
One of the many advantages I have of living so far out is I have no
building code to fight. Well, there is that state guvmint thing about
building your outhouse too close to a lake, but then that's mostly a
common sense thing anyway. I mean, hell, who wants lake water seeping
into the pit under their outhouse?
It's good to see you posting amigo.
Feliz Navidad y Feliz A=F1o Nuevo!
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Re: Swiss Hospital to Allow Assisted Suicide
Group: alt.support.mult-sclerosis Date: Fri, Dec 23, 2005, 11:10am
(CST-2) From: msbuckaroo@hotmail.com (Cowboy)
Sure it means hello!
Been so busy on the weblog and editing the Paragon Foundation magazine,
plus trying to build a handicapped accessible home on my own property
(which is turning out to be a nightmare under county planning) that I
have not been able to post as much to the newsgroup as I would like.
Once I get the Special Use Permit from the county and the waiver from
the ETZ, maybe I can get back to posting more.
And to answer a question you posted earlier, the NMSU rodeo team is
doing great. After the fall rodeo season, both the men's and women's
teams are sitting in first place in the region. At the one rodeo I got
to attend, NMSU athletes won 7 of the 10 events. I think they had some
of Tick's chile before the competition!
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to everyone,
Cowboy
*****Don't Cry Because It's Over...Smile Because It Happened.*****
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