In the past, Human Life Alliance warned about physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, and stealth euthanasia. Our previous editions of Imposed Death exposed how basic care can be removed against the patient’s interests and desires, or against the patient’s advocate’s expressed concerns. This new edition of Imposed Death presents factual examples of deaths by euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. What we warned could happen is now happening. Doctors are intentionally killing their patients in direct conflict with the Hippocratic Oath, to do no harm.
The intentional ending of human lives by euthanasia and assisted suicide is becoming a pandemic. Medical homicide is real. It has become a specialty for some doctors, or should we say, serial killers? Several countries, and a few states in the U.S., have given doctors a license to kill, and more are considering it. The proponents always start off with stories of mercy kills. Terminal patient, suffering, the worst of the worst cases; they just want “a compassionate option” to help someone commit suicide. But before the ink dries from the Governor’s signature on an assisted suicide law, the same people are rushing lawsuits and appeals to remove limits and safeguards to allow doctors to mail suicide drugs over state lines to patients they have never met, or to go from assisting a suicide to euthanizing people for almost any reason.
Why Should We Be Concerned?
How does this affect you? You may be healthy, young, and contributing to society now, but you are one accident away from needing medical care. You are one freak medical episode away from this scenario. Your life or death will be decided based on a health practitioner’s personal judgment about your “quality of life.” History has also shown that when governments do not value human life universally, they have killed tens of millions of their own people. For instance: Nazi Germany’s Aktion T4 program.1
It is now common for the elderly to be sedated, dehydrated, and slowly starved to death in hospitals, care homes, and by home care agencies: stealth euthanasia. It is common for those with disabilities and congenital defects to be denied coverage and given low quality care. The elderly, disabled, and poor are seen as an expensive burden on society, and their organs can be harvested for financial gain. What a great way to solve funding issues: turn those drains on resources into a revenue stream.
In this publication, we will examine the arguments behind the “right to die” movement and show you what they do to people in real life. In these pages, you will read true stories of lives endangered and sadly cut short, and you will also learn about the real threats to you and your loved ones that are currently being debated in most state senates across the United States. We hope, by the end, that you will agree that euthanasia and assisted suicide are predatory and must be stopped.