Because of Metro Vancouver issuing an air quality advisory because of the climate heat and the smoke in the air, I am staying in until the advisory is lifted. I am seventy years old and I do not do well in the heat. The last thing I need is tiny little microns penetrating my respiratory system. The heat is very uncomfortable.
In The New Yorker there is a letter from Belgium in the June 22 2015 issue: The
Death Treatment. When should people with a non-terminal illness be helped to die. by Rachel Aviv
http://www.newyorker.com.magazine.2015.06.22the-death-treatment. It tells of a death by euthanasia in which only the doctors knew and the family was not notified until after the dirty deed. The tragedy of this death was that the woman was not terminally ill or in her nineties.
The son (Tom Mortier) screamed at the doctor (Wim Distelmans) who did the dirty deed . You went along with the madness of my mother. You went along with her tunnel vision, her defeatism. You have taken away the suffering of one person and transposed it to another.
Belgian law allows euthanasia for patients who suffer from severe and incurable distress including psychological disorders.
The laws seem to have created a new conception of suicide as a medical treatment, stripped of its tragic dimensions. Patrick Wyffels, a Belgian family doctor, told Rachel Aviv that he sometimes worries about how his own values might influence a patients decision to die or to live. Depending on communication techniques, Dr. Wyffeks said he might lead a patient one way or the other.
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Monday, July 6, 2015
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Read the draft of the CMA on euthanasia with fear.
https://www.google.com/?gws_
This link is the draft that the Canadian Medical Association is proposing on how doctors are to handle euthanasia.
The only way to counter the Carter decision is for real doctors to refuse to do the dirty deed.
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This link is the draft that the Canadian Medical Association is proposing on how doctors are to handle euthanasia.
The only way to counter the Carter decision is for real doctors to refuse to do the dirty deed.
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Thursday, June 25, 2015
I demo most days at 669 Howe Street. The Residence at Hotel Georgia share the same front door as the College of Physicians andt Surgeons of British Columbia.
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The show living room in the 48th-floor penthouse.
Fresh from a trip to Singapore, the president of Delta Land Group apologizes for being jet-lagged, then proceeds to energetically list off features about the 48-storey tower.
Residents can access any of the amenities from the adjoining five-star Hotel Georgia, including catering from Hawksworth restaurant, spa services, maid and room service, valet parking, and use of the saltwater lap pool. Langereis and his company restored the 88-year-old heritage property, which is managed by Rosewood Hotels.
The Private Residences tower, which connects to the hotel on the fourth floor, began pre-sales in 2007 and now has six units remaining on the market.But they’re no ordinary suites: five sub-penthouses that take up half a floor each, ranging from $7.7 million to $8.1 million — and a true penthouse that covers the entire top floor.
The 6,832 sq.-ft. home offers a glorious 360-degree view from several balconies. One corner of the penthouse is set up as a sumptuous dining/living room for now. The rest is an empty concrete shell, since someone who can afford the $18-million price tag will presumably want to custom-design pretty much everything.
"Selfishly, I’d like to see someone who’s really going to enjoy this and appreciate it and embrace what we’re offering,” said Langereis, stopping short of saying he would veto a potential buyer.
"I could never not do that but I’d be a lot tougher to negotiate with," he offered.
"Let me put it this way, if it’s someone’s who’s going to invite me back for a social up here, I’d probably do a better deal than someone who’s going to buy it and never invite me or invite anybody from the building. Or never be part of the hotel or part of the chemistry of the city."
The front entrance of the Private Residences at Hotel Georgia and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia share the same front door.
Langereis has a "good for them" attitude.
"Bravo, you’re selling it," he said. "But think about that, if you bought there to live there, how are you going to feel if it’s so transient (when people flip their condo).
"It’s not our style. It’s not the way we do things."
Langereis, who flies his own helicopter to go solo camping at remote sites, is willing to be patient.
Looking out the floor-to-ceiling windows toward St. Paul’s Hospital where he was born, Langereis reflects on coming from a "poor family from Europe that immigrated here" and growing up in East Vancouver.
"I don’t want to just follow and do what’s easy, I want to do what’s right," he said.
"This building will be here long after I’m gone. And I don’t want anyone to point at the building with embarrassment.... I’d like them to say, ‘Oh my dad, or I know Bruce, and that’s a great building!’ That’s what I want."
Right now, Langereis wants a local buyer for that $18-million penthouse. And he's got a final pitch.
“One of the advantages to buying here is you get me as a neighbour.”
Was Brittany Maynard coerced into suicide....
Psychologist Questions if Brittany Maynard’s Family Pressured Her to Commit Suicide
Now, a psychologist who is affiliated with a group working to stop a bill in the legislature in California, Maynard’s home state, from legalizing assisted suicide, is asking some serious question about whether Maynard may have been pressured by her family to commit suicide before she was truly prepared to do so
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Psychologist Dr. Mark Hoffman, PhD is affiliated with a California-based group of vulnerable seniors who, he says, are demanding to know what really happened with Brittany Maynard.
“In the most public suicide of modern history, a mysterious event took place which was never explained nor investigated. The current laws in Oregon do not allow for such investigations,” he explained.
Hoffman, of California Seniors Against Suicide, points out that, after months of media manipulation and promises of a November 1 suicide date, Brittany Maynard stunned the world when she proclaimed on Oct. 31 that she would not kill herself on Nov 1. She had rethought the circumstances, saying “I’ve decided it’s just not the right time.”
“Nevertheless, the next day the family simply announced that she was dead. The schedule was simply followed,” he says. “But what happened? Who was counseling her? How did that counseling go? What pressures did she feel to get back on schedule? She changed her mind and decided to live, but something or someone intervened in that new commitment.”
“As seniors we are well aware that family members and many others with a ‘vested interest’ can give the wrong emotional advice, often even subconsciously manipulating a dependent patient,” Hoffman said. “Those others may not be financial heirs – though very often they are – just the relief of having the ‘burdens of the patient’ off of their hands can be VERY compelling for some third parties. Elder abuse and subtle patient coercion are not uncommon even under current law, and the laws are there specifically to guard against manipulated decisions.”
“At the very least,’ said Hoffman, “The facts clearly tell us that Brittany’s decision was NOT firm. She was clearly emotionally torn and uncertain, and she proclaimed that to the world.”
http://www.euthanasianewsworld.com
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Demo # 3 and # 4 at GPC
On June 6 2015 and June 20 2015 I attended at George Pearson Centre with my sign TELL CAROL ANNE I MISS HER. Both days had excellent weather. I used to read a lot when I was young (like sixty years ago). I used to read one book a day and I am getting close to that again. There is so much to read. It is like rediscovering another world. A world which you can go in and out without much disruption.
http://www.euthanasianewsworld.com
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Sunday, June 21, 2015
Finally
Finally, after being subject to the tyranny of the health authority since 2010, I am finally getting back my sense of humour. If you see humour in the way you are being treated, then nothing can dis alarm you.
I do not think this is going to work as the object of what happened was Randy and how he was treated. The health authority did not have Randy's best interests in mind as if they did they would never have banned me from seeing Randy or rationed his treatment. Why is it that bus drivers are subject to psychological testing but health professionals aren't.
I do not think this is going to work as the object of what happened was Randy and how he was treated. The health authority did not have Randy's best interests in mind as if they did they would never have banned me from seeing Randy or rationed his treatment. Why is it that bus drivers are subject to psychological testing but health professionals aren't.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
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