euthanasia for the elderly

[MitzaLizalor]

Where to begin..

I'll start here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2378720/

Potential Interest of the Elderly in Active Euthanasia

As part of a larger study, elderly applicants to institutions and elderly residents of the community were questioned on their potential interest in active euthanasia. Of these, 19 percent and 23 percent respectively said they would want a lethal injection. A further ten and nine percent respectively said they would want a lethal pill..

I thought that was gobbledygook for "here's a gun to potentially shoot yourself with" and then waiting to see what happened.

Il dolce far niente . . Not so

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44707643

Anna Mae Blessing.….[92].….contemplated her son's intentions to put her into care for days, according to court documents.

"You took my life, so I'm taking yours," she reportedly said as she was escorted out of the Arizona home she shared with her son and his girlfriend.

Mrs Blessing told police she had intended to kill herself, too. The incident happened in the morning of 2 July in the town of Fountain Hills, Maricopa county, police records obtained by local media say. Mrs Blessing's son, whose name has not been released, wanted her to leave for an assisted living facility because she had become difficult to live with. The mother concealed two firearms in her robe pockets before confronting her son in his bedroom, police said in a statement. During the ensuing argument, she pulled out one revolver, purchased in the 1970s, and fired at her son.

Police found the son dead, with two bullet wounds to his neck and jaw. Mrs Blessing then pointed the gun at her son's 57-year-old girlfriend, who managed to wrestle it away and throw it into a corner of the room. She pulled out a second pistol, which she told police her late husband had given to her in the 1970s. The girlfriend managed to knock this one out of Mrs Blessing's hands, too..

Later on Mrs Blessing was reclining at home when the cops arrived. The conversation seems to be whether suicidal geriatrics ought to be injected with arsenic or given a few million volts. Or a tablet, capsule, whatever; arsenic's about as good as it gets. How did King David record values appropriate for this geriatric trilemma?

Psalm 139:1-8 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

Knowing that a future separated from God forever awaits, how could the elderly choose a choice leading to just that separation? Christian elderly do no such thing..

I Corinthians 6:20 Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

[James Hutchins]

Re: euthanasia for the elderly

Old people, you have to love with their quirks. None of my parents are alive or anyone else in my family. Funny how life works out. God's Infinite Wisdom™. Praise Him
Genesis 5

5 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
12 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:
13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: euthanasia for the elderly

Shem, Ham, Japheth, nobody growing up with them survived. God knew all about evil then and God acted. Not only the olds but the infants (all the infants since Noah's clan were grown up) and the babies. All killed. The Bible is explicit on this:

Genesis 7:22-24; 9:1 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

Then after the 150 days

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Knowing how harmful sin actually is, God reduced lifespans resulting in opportunities for ever greater wretchedness being reduced too. We know that all babies are born deserving endless torture, imagine what they'd do with 1,000 years to invent new vileness intercopulating willy-nilly? God explains:

Genesis 6:1-3 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

It's because we see how consistent The Bible remains even in the face of hideous onslaughts from heathens everywhere that we know God's Inerrant Word.—.after all, He made the whole universe and obviously knows everything about it.—.is preserved for us in its pages. The two go together: God is certain just as The Bible is certain and geriatrics requesting arsenic are necessarily demon possessed.

[James Hutchins]

Re: euthanasia for the elderly

Yes, God is great. Sometimes, when life is tough, I look at all the jars of dead babies on my mantle and think still born babies are the fortunate ones. Then I pull out my KJV Holy Bible and read that no, I am the lucky one, chosen by God, forgiven by him for my daily transgressions.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

[Cranky Old Man]

Re: euthanasia for the elderly

Death is clearly a blessing. No longer having to suffer by listening to retarded idiots who refuse to follow God's rules by raping innocent children in their behinds and voting for Fayrouz Saad.

I cannot wait for Jesus to end my suffering and sending me to a well deserved eternal stay in Heaven.

[Dana723]

Re: euthanasia for the elderly

Death is clearly a blessing. No longer having to suffer by listening to retarded idiots who refuse to follow God's rules by raping innocent children in their behinds and voting for Fayrouz Saad.

I cannot wait for Jesus to end my suffering and sending me to a well deserved eternal stay in Heaven.

That's so beautiful. I hope you get to die soon!

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: euthanasia for the elderly

Ending your life is blasphemous: it is rejecting the Gift that God gave you. That He gives any of us life is all part of His Plan.

He knows you will turn out well and enter heaven if you use your freewill (which He also gave you) well.

It is more than a pity if, even if blessed with dementia, incontinence,and racked with the pain of spinal arthritis, you reject that gift. It is the final test – similar to that given to Job – of your faith, of your desire to enter heaven.

As for Anna Mae Blessing, aged 92, shooting her son – I can do no better than to refer to

De:21:18: If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
De:21:19: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
De:21:20: And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
De:21:21: And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

I see a bullet from a .45 as the modern version of stoning. (I say this and it is rather difficult to condone a woman stoning someone - this is a job ordained for men - but as Mrs Blessing (what a nice name) was a widow, a small fine would be enough.)

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: euthanasia for the elderly

Ending your life is blasphemous: it is rejecting the Gift that God gave you. That He gives any of us life is all part of His Plan.

He knows you will turn out well and enter heaven if you use your freewill (which He also gave you) well.

It is more than a pity if, even if blessed with dementia, incontinence,and racked with the pain of spinal arthritis, you reject that gift. It is the final test – similar to that given to Job – of your faith, of your desire to enter heaven.

As for Anna Mae Blessing, aged 92, shooting her son – I can do no better than to refer to

De:21:18: If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
De:21:19: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
De:21:20: And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
De:21:21: And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

I see a bullet from a .45 as the modern version of stoning. (I say this and it is rather difficult to condone a woman stoning someone - this is a job ordained for men - but as Mrs Blessing (what a nice name) was a widow, a small fine would be enough.)

The mother's voice is mentioned explicitly in verse 18 and it's evident that Mrs Blessing had made her wishes known because she articulated her grievance prior to acting. The son behaved in quite the opposite.—.which is to say rebellious.—.way can anyone doubt that if he was packing her off to a dormitory and she knew, this was the theme of her chastening him after all, that no earlier conversation had taken place? And yet he harkened not unto the voice of his mother.

Without The Bible we would have no standard for morality. People would dream up all sorts of insane moral guidelines, even criminals forcing their will upon subject populations to feather their own nests. Like ships at sea using different compass points, some with 4, some pointing south, another with 5 points, someone else dividing the circle into 127 degrees; none of them could follow another's directions and if they sought to navigate the same pond conflict would ensue.

That is why standards are important. The Bible provides a consistent standard and although there are those who'd say it's standard is horrific, even implementing alternative standards of their own, all that's needed is to look at the societies which result. Where would we be without The Bible today?

The answer is obvious.