Is there value to be found in taking up your cross?
Daughter asks why the government has ‘100s of millions’ to spend on health but ‘nothing’ for her 85-year-old mum who is suffering with dementia. The HSE said they ‘do not comment on individual cases’. Bloomfield and St. James’ Hospital didn’t respond.
To offer a ‘choice’ between suffering and death which neglects the option of actual assistance in living is evil.
Intolerable and hopeless (meaning without prospect of improvement) suffering is an eligibility criterion for euthanasia/assisted suicide in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Canada. Despite having been used as such a criterion for decades (at least in the Netherlands; shorter periods in other countries), it is still widely debated as to its meaning and applicability as an […]