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(44) Fri 12 Mar 93 10:52a Rcvd: Tue 16 Mar 1:16p
By: Joe Chamberlain
To: Earl Appleby
Re: Of Note (2/3)
St: Rcvd
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In a message to All <07 Mar 93 17:25> Earl Appleby wrote:
EA> "The pace of euthanasia's advance in the US is such that one can
confidently predict that, unless arrested now, deliberate killing
of patients by the tens of thousands will come within 10 years."
[Editor's Note: These are not my words but Dr. Joseph Stanton's.]
The medical profession has a responsibility to relieve suffering. My
mother died of cancer in 1972. She moved to Spain because she
couldn't get the needed pain reflief here in the U.S. The U.S.
doctors predicted multiple surgeries, radiation sickness, extreme
pain, and death in a year. In Spain, she refused all treatment except
pain relief and lived for 18 months.
Euthanasia needs to be a choice available.
* Origin: Joe's Point - A Tri-Pacer In The Sky - Delaware (RAX
1:150/175.1)
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(46) Wed 17 Mar 93 6:16p
By: Earl Appleby
To: Joe Chamberlain
Re: Of Note (2/3)
St: Local
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Joe,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
My sympathy on the loss of your mother. My Dad died in 1991 and I miss
him more each day.
I agree with you that the medical profession has a responsibility to
relieve suffering...but not at ALL costs.
An example from my own life demonstrates my thinking.
When I was monitoring the President's Commission for the Study of
Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical Behavioral Research in the
early 1980s, I overheard the following discussion between my friend
the late Rabbi Seymour Siegel, a member of the Commission, and my
nemesis Dr. Joanne Lynne, a Commission staffer
Lynne: Rabbi Siegel, what is the difference between giving a cancer
patient an injection of morphine, following which the patient
dies, and an injection of potassium chloride, following which
the patient dies?
Rabbi: The difference is in the intention. The morphine is given to
relieve pain. The death which ensues because of respiratory
difficulties in NOT intended. The intention in giving a
patient a fatal injection of potassium chloride is to kill the
patient.
Lynne: No, the intention is the same in both cases--to relieve pain.
The only difference is that in the first case the pain is
relieved PRIOR to death and in the latter the pain is relieved
AFTER death.
A more accurate statement would be the pain is relieved by causing
death. It is this type of "pain relief" via medical killing that I
find abhorrent. As I said to a colleague at the time, "Dr. Lynne says
giving a patient an injection of potassium chloride, a technique used
by the old Nazis, relieves his pain, because after death his pain
ends. She might as well say she has cured his cancer, because after
his death his cancer ends."
As my own father was targeted by the euthanasians for the ten years of
his life in coma, I could hardly favor euthanasia. Indeed, with my
family, especially, my Dad, I founded CURE in 1981 to protect him and
others with disabilities (like my Dad), diseases (like my Dad...he had
cancer among others), and those who are simply old (Dad was 75 when he
died) from euthanasia. Since every American has the legal right to
refuse even an aspirin that could save his life, CURE has never tried
to convince anyone to undergo any treatment. We work almost entirely
with patients and families who want treatment (like the Wanglies, see
my Cross Our Desk comments elsewhere) and are being denied it by TAB
bigots of the "quality-of-life" school I find reminiscent of the Nazis
who murdered my grandfather at Mauthausen.
Your point about pain relief is well taken, Joe, and doctors should be
better trained in pharmacology, and other nonlethal techniques of pain
control. CURE's medical advisors tell me that pain control techniques
have improved significantly in recent years.
Thanks again for sharing your views.
Regards,
Earl
* Origin: ABLEnews...your comments are welcome here. (1:262/4)
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(93) Mon 22 Mar 93 5:19p Rcvd: Sat 27 Mar 11:02a
By: Joe Chamberlain
To: Earl Appleby
Re: Of Note (2/3)
St: Rcvd
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In a message to Joe Chamberlain <17 Mar 93 18:16> Earl Appleby wrote:
EA> I agree with you that the medical profession has a responsibility to
relieve suffering...but not at ALL costs.
The medical profession needs to be trained to treat according the patient's
directives. You followered your father's wishes and my mother decided what
was best for her.
* Origin: Joe's Point - A Tri-Pacer In The Sky - Delaware (RAX
1:150/175.1)
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(47) Tue 16 Mar 93 7:42p
By: John Covici
To: All
Re: Missouri to begin slaught
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MISSOURI TO BEGIN SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS BUSALACCHI DENIED
PROTECTION OF STATE LAW
CLUB OF LIFE
by Linda Everett
Although the state of Missouri has laws to prevent it, Christine
Busalacchi is about to be starved to death by court order, and
Missouri is about to embark on a slaughter of the innocents. [She died
on March 7.]
Back in 1991, Peter Busalacchi petitioned a court for the right to
murder his daughter, Christine, who was disabled from brain injuries
suffered in a 1987 accident. The state of Missouri intervened to
protect Christine. But Peter Busalacchi's attorney, William Colby, at
the time fresh from his ``victory'' in winning the right to starve the
disabled Nancy Cruzan to death, built a case for killing Christine. He
did it in partnership with Dr. Ronald Cranford of Minnesota, a Nazi
euthanasia propagandist who claimed Christine was in a ``vegetative
state.''
The lies apparently worked, because this past November, Missourians
elected as Attorney General the Democrat Jay Nixon, one of whose big
campaign promises was to allow the starvation of the disabled child.
On Jan. 11, an hour and a half after he was sworn in, and in his first
act as state Attorney General, Nixon signed an order directing the
Missouri Supreme Court to dismiss the case which the state had brought
to protect Christine.
- `Better Off Dead'? -
The Busalacchi example demonstrates the lengths to which the Death
Lobby cost-cutters will go to obliterate human life. Christine had
shown terrific improvement; she had relearned how to swallow, to
communicate, and to signal when she wanted to eat. She enjoyed eating
ice cream, and delighted in nurses' jokes, sunny outings, and birds
and bird songs. She took all her meals by mouth. But her father says
she's ``better off dead,'' and her doctor says she's ``not human.''
Missouri law says a patient can't be starved to death unless his
``request'' is in writing, or there is ``clear and convincing''
evidence of his wishes. The law is clear, if not moral. In this case,
however, there is no evidence of such wishes. Since the law bans
starvation of anyone who can take food by mouth, Busalacchi demanded
that Christine no longer receive her meals by mouth, but only by
nasogastric tube. Probate Court Judge Louis Kohn, who had appointed
Busalacchi as Christine's guardian and had also approved his murder
requests, agreed. State officials appealed that ruling to the State
Supreme Court last fall, but the Court made no ruling. When, in
January, Nixon ordered a dismissal, the court complied, reinstating
Kohn's earlier starvation decision.
- State Breaks Own Laws -
Since Missouri law allows that, ``if a guardian is unfit, any
interested person can apply for guardianship,'' Betsy McDonald of St.
Louis petitioned St. Louis Circuit Court Judge John Kintz for
guardianship of Christine. Her petition was denied, despite the fact
that both Kohn's ruling and Nixon's order violated several state laws.
Attorney Bill Colby boasted that ``those laws''--namely, those that
forbid the starving of a patient without his prior consent--``are
being ignored all over the state right now.'' He then implied that,
since they intend to change the law on starving patients, they can
afford to ignore existing laws against it.
Exactly. As Nixon promised during his campaign, Missouri has renounced
any interest in protecting its citizens, meaning that the courts of
Missouri can kill Christine, even when she has on her side state laws,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the {Cruzan} case, and publicity.
The state of Missouri feels free to slaughter any and all of its many
disabled, but lesser known, wards.
Appeals to the Supreme Court for a restraining order to protect
Christine have so far gone unanswered.
* Origin: The Lincoln Legacy 703-777-5987 1200-14400 HST DS
(1:109/909)
[Editor's Note: See related story re WATCH's attempt to intervene on
behalf of Christine Busalacchi in 9303ADV.ANR.]