Trust Doctors With Euthanasia?

There is great suffering on our planet that is only getting worse. Doctors and their organizations are responsible for a significant part of it. Politicians, with their lust for war, are another huge part. The owners of the media are among the worst. Big business with all the poisons they make money from, our religions, sexual predators, there is no end to it all. Suicide has always been a problem, but more people than ever are choosing to escape life, and now we have euthanasia being accepted in more countries.

We all die eventually, but how we die and when we die is an issue open to debate, consideration, and even under our control sometimes. No one likes to suffer, but life is difficult, and that is something we cannot avoid.

We must have compassion and empathy for the suffering of others and do the best we can with our own suffering. Once we are here in life, there is no easy way out. Suicide is an agony, but allowing doctors to inject us with pentobarbital (see below) as wardens do to prison inmates is no joy. It seems like the best ticket out of insupportable pain and misery is this new nitrogen pod (see below), but those involved were arrested last year in the first case of its use. Perhaps it is too good of an idea for doctors and politicians who unconsciously promote suffering and pain.

Trust Doctors With Euthanasia?

The term “euthanasia” is derived from the Greek for good death, but it only began to be used in a modern and familiar way in the late 19th century. For centuries, in Western societies, “euthanasia” referred to a pious death blessed by God. However, today, the characteristics and frequency of clinical problems with the performance of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are uncertain, to say the least. However, much can be said about the right to die with dignity, but are doctors dignified enough to help people die?

Doctors and the medical system they serve are responsible for so much misery and death in the world. Should they be given a license to kill patients at the end of their lives? Most doctors who have been in practice long enough have noticed that the rates of chronic illnesses in the population have dramatically increased and that many diseases appeared that had previously been almost unheard of.

Under the care of our cherished modern physicians in America, we see at least 60 percent of the population with one chronic illness or another and 75 percent obese, with most of them having at a minimum metabolic syndrome and on their way to diabetes, kidney issues, and clogged arteries.

Is the best answer they can come up with chemically induced euthanasia with the same chemical to kill inmates on death row? Many doctors are enthusiastic about helping people die, and there is good reason when suffering is beyond what humans can support. But there are better ways to end life than with lethal injections.

Many physicians are opposed to euthanasia because they took oaths to preserve life, not to end it. However, the practice of pharmaceutical medicine and the hate mainstream doctors have for natural medicine put uncountable patients into suffering and premature death. It is especially apparent since mRNA vaccines were mandated for the public. Still, the ignorance and arrogance of doctors cast a massive shadow on their thoughts and practices about almost everything, especially euthanasia.

If you look for charts on the number of euthanized
patients, you see a shocking trend. They’re soaring.
In 2023, Canada recorded 15,280 cases of assisted death.

Voluntary euthanasia is the start of a slippery slope that leads to involuntary euthanasia and the killing of people who are thought undesirable. As we shall see in this essay, assisted suicide is neither painless nor dignified when drugs are used to kill patients who want a pain-free death. There are other methods, which we will must explore to facilitate a better death, but lethal injections are definitely not the way.

What no one who is into Euthanasia wants to say
is that the principal drug used in lethal injections causes
suffering, often great suffering at the moment of death.

Euthanasia is the killing of others with the pretext of ending their suffering. Assisted suicide” is becoming increasingly normalized in advanced industrial societies. The Canadian situation has been discussed extensively, where a poll recently implied that a quarter of the respondents favored assisted suicide being made available even on the grounds of homelessness or poverty.

Many people face ‘unbearable pain’ at the end of life.

Our modern civilization seems to have no problem killing anyone through one means or another. People in agony have the right to be assisted with smoothing their passing to the other side, and hospice centers, the best of them, do their best.

Dying A Miserable Death

The desire for euthanasia is based
on a patient’s persistent suffering.

“British people are being forced to endure unbelievable suffering at the end of life. Some will retch at the stench of their own body rotting. Some will vomit their own feces. Some will suffocate, slowly, inexorably, over several days, their last moments of life disfigured by terror. Any one of us might suffer such a fate.”

50,000 dead in only Canada since 2016 via euthanasia.

The past 40 years of euthanasia in Holland prove there is a slippery slope. It has moved from being applied to the very terminally ill to the chronically ill (including those with depression, psychological distress, a “tired of living” mindset, and dementia) and from a voluntary to nonvoluntary (e.g., severely handicapped newborns) capacity.

What Does the British Medical Journal Have to Say

People suffering from terminal conditions might consider euthanasia, hoping for a peaceful and pain-free death. However, “a peaceful, pain-free, dignified death is not guaranteed. Many promoters of assisted suicide and/or euthanasia often suggest that the use of medications during the assisted dying process results in a pain-free, dignified death for all. This is not the case. Modern medicine cannot guarantee a pain-free death (natural or intentional) for all. Many deaths during assisted suicide are prolonged. Patients may become unconscious relatively quickly, but the dying process can take up to 30 hours or more. There are also reports of people re-emerging from a coma and sitting up during the dying process. Failure to use the ‘correct drugs’ in the assisted suicide and/or euthanasia process may lead to traumatic situations such as an extended time to death or awakening of the patient, causing distress for the patient and the attending family and health care providers.”

In the Netherlands, pentobarbital is one of the key parts of the euthanasia process. However, if the dose injected exceeds the recommended limit, it can cause the patient to suffer before they die. The dosage and method of administration of pentobarbital used in euthanasia contravenes pharmacological warnings.

Dr. Joel Zivot said, “As a doctor and expert witness against the use of lethal injection for execution in America, however, I am quite certain that assisted suicide is not painless or peaceful or dignified. In fact, in the majority of cases, it is a very painful death. The death penalty is not the same as assisted dying, of course. Executions are meant to be punishment; euthanasia is about relief from suffering. Yet, for both euthanasia and executions, paralytic drugs are used. These drugs, given in high enough doses, mean that a patient cannot move a muscle and cannot express any outward or visible sign of pain. But that doesn’t mean that he or she is free from suffering.”

Pentobarbital

The most common lethal drugs used by clinicians to assist suicide were high doses of barbiturates, frequently either pentobarbital or secobarbital. It is also used for prisoners on death row.

Lethal injections causes severe pain and severe respiratory distress with associated sensations of drowning, asphyxiation, panic, and terror in many cases, a new report from NPR found.

NPR reviewed more than 200 autopsy reports from executions in nine states between 1990 and 2019. The investigation found evidence of pulmonary edema in 84% of the cases. Pulmonary edema occurs when the lungs fill up with fluids, and it can induce the feeling of suffocation or drowning.

All medical witnesses that described pulmonary edema agreed it was painful, both physically and emotionally, inducing a sense of drowning and the attendant panic and terror, much as would occur with the torture tactic known as waterboarding, according to a federal district court ruling.

Dr. Joel Zivot reports seeing heavy lungs in prisoners put to death with pentobarbital. The average human lung weighs about 450 grams. Many of these lungs weighed twice that, sometimes more. His best guess was that they were filled with fluid. He found it was a severe form of a condition called pulmonary edema, which can induce the feeling of suffocation or drowning. Eventually, Zivot and Dr. Mark Edgar found pulmonary edema occurring in about three-quarters of more than three dozen autopsy reports they gathered.

“The autopsy findings were quite striking and unambiguous,” says Zivot. He had imagined that lethal injection induced a quick death and would leave an inmate’s body pristine, or at least close to it. But the autopsies told another story.

Drs. Joel Zivot (left) and Mark Edgar, of Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, first found evidence of pulmonary edema in inmate autopsies in 2016. Their findings are now at the forefront of legal challenges to lethal injections across the country.

Dr. F. Hanna Campbell is an engineer specializing in neuropsychiatric therapeutics – an approach dealing with neurodegenerative disorders caused by nervous system diseases. In a recent article, Campbell laid out her prime concerns with current euthanasia practices. These issues lie in four areas: the use of the drug pentobarbital in euthanasia, the lack of evidence of effective pain-pathway deactivation (pain blocking’) during euthanasia, insufficient duration of psychiatric assessment of patients, and lack of brain monitoring.

Alan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none were life-threatening. When the 61-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears he might be suicidal, he asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible.

Within a month, Nichols submitted a request to be euthanized, and he was killed despite concerns raised by his family and a nurse practitioner. His application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die: hearing loss.

Nichols’ family reported the case to police and health authorities, arguing that he lacked the capacity to understand the process and was not suffering unbearably — among the requirements for euthanasia. They say he was not taking needed medication, wasn’t using the cochlear implant that helped him hear, and that hospital staffers improperly helped him request euthanasia. “Alan was basically put to death,” his brother Gary Nichols said. This is just one of many horror stories.

Dying Made Easier with Two Breaths?

Flooding this pod with nitrogen might offer a more pain-free death than using lethal injections. The Sarco pod, short for sarcophagus, is a controversial euthanasia device that has attracted significant attention due to its innovative design and intended use. This 3D-printed, detachable capsule is mounted on a stand and contains a canister of liquid nitrogen, allowing individuals to end their lives through inert gas asphyxiation. First introduced in Switzerland in 2019, the capsule offers a means for people to die without the need for medical supervision. It releases nitrogen gas inside and reduces the oxygen levels to lethal amounts.

The Sarco pod replaces the oxygen inside with nitrogen, resulting in death by hypoxia. To operate the Sarco pod, the individual wishing to die must follow some steps:

• To use the Sarco, individuals must first pass a psychiatric assessment.
• Users climb into the capsule, close the lid, and answer automated questions about their identity and understanding of the process.
• Once the button is pressed, the oxygen level in the capsule drops from 21% to 0.05% in less than 30 seconds. This rapid decrease causes disorientation, euphoria, and loss of consciousness, and the person dies within approximately five minutes.

According to one of its inventors, “this method ensures an “elective, non-drug, peaceful death at the person’s choosing.” According to the principal inventor Philip Nitschke, the person loses consciousness after two breaths and dies without suffering in around five minutes. The oxygen content in the capsule and the person’s heart rate can be monitored remotely.

The pod was used for the first time at a private forest retreat in Merishausen, Switzerland, near the German border in September of 2023. The American woman who utilized the pod had reportedly been suffering from long-standing health issues related to severe immune system compromise. The death was described as “peaceful, fast, and dignified” by Florian Willet, the co-president of The Last Resort, an assisted dying organization overseeing the process.

Dying With Dignity Without Doctors – Stopping Eating and Drinking

Whether or not your state has a death with dignity statute, you have several options available to hasten your death. These options are legal in every state. However, none can be used on your own. Instead, they require working with your healthcare team and loved ones.

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED): To voluntarily stop eating and drinking means to refuse all food and liquids, including those taken through a feeding tube, with the understanding that doing so will hasten death. This is an option for people with terminal or life-limiting diseases who feel that with VSED, their dying will not be prolonged. One of the advantages of this decision is that you may change your mind at any time and resume eating and drinking.

The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the right of a competent individual to refuse medical therapies, which include food and fluids. This choice is also commonly accepted in the medical community.