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[Serb]

Euthanasia could be option for poor, says Lithuanian health minister

by Michael Cook | 26 Jul 2014 | (28)

tags: euthanasia, Lithuania

Euthanasia might be needed for poor people who cannot access palliative care, the new Lithuanian Health Minister has suggested. Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė was sworn earlier this month, but already she has made waves by backing an open discussion of the legalisation of euthanasia.

Without making any specific proposals, she told local media that Lithuania was not a welfare state with palliative care available for all and that euthanasia might be an option for people who did not want to torment relatives with the spectacle of their suffering.

The minister has also raised the idea of euthanasia for children. She noted that this option had been approved for Belgian children after a long public debate. It was an option which might be appropriate in Lithuania as well after public debate.

Ms Šalaševičiūtė will face an uphill battle in her campaign to introduce Lithuanians to euthanasia. Many doctors and the Catholic Church oppose it.

Dr Andrius Narbekovas, who is both a priest and a doctor, and a member of the Health Ministry’s bioethics commission, told the media:
“The Ministry of Health should protect health and life, instead of looking for ways to take life away. It goes without saying that it is … profitable and cost effective … But a democratic society should very clearly understand that we have to take care of the sick, not kill them."

http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/11071

Nazism as it is.

Welcome to the brand new world!!!

[Serb]

Hey, Saras! You guys are leading the way this time, not Germans or Italians. You should be proud of your nation.

[Colon™]

Nazism as it is.

It's only nazism when Russians are euthanized.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Oh yes, because only a Nazi would think people should be permitted to end their own life when they choose.

[Serb]

It's nazism, because the minister of health openly suggest that poor people should kill themselves, instead of recieving medical attention.

It's typical nazi approach, a f*cking social-darwinism. And you don't even see nothing wrong that a member of government responsible for healthcare in the European country in the 21st century suggests such policies wrt to poor people.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Europe

[My Wife Hates CIV]

I don't think they need to go that far... religion will do the dirty work, give it time.

[Serb]

You people are sick and don't even realize that. You don't f*cking see in what kind of abyss the World is falling.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

It's nazism, because the minister of health openly suggest that poor people should kill themselves, instead of recieving medical attention.

It's typical nazi approach, a f*cking social-darwinism. And you, dumb motherf*cker, don't even see nothing wrong that a member of government responsible for healthcare in the European country in the 21st century suggest such policies wrt to poor people.

How many people have been killed by Communists so far?

[My Wife Hates CIV]

abyss - I don't think it's that bad.

all that has to happen is for people to stop killing each other. it's not that hard to walk over to your neighbor and say hi

but no - that neighbor prays to some other god than me. kill kill kill.

[Serb]

How many people have been killed by Communists so far?

WAY less than by nazis, imperialists, colonialists and enlightened democracies. And aside from all those guys, Communists have never proclaimed that some people should be exterminated because they are poor, weak, have a different skin color, not smart enough, not civilized enough or anything else.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

it's good to be an American... where I'm not killed if I don't pray!

you know, religion is all fluff... it really is.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

WAY less than by imperialists, colonialists and enlightened democracies.

Imperialism had been around for thousands of years. Communism had less than a hundred years to murder as many people as possible.

[Serb]

[Serb]

Oh, I forgot, you are a nazi. No point to argue with you.