BonMonday, 3 June 2013
To be Clear: The Fear of Euthanasia Funds Palliative Care in Australia
In an odd twist of fate, Dr Nitschke's work in Euthanasia has, through knee-jerk Government fears, and leger demain, created many quite good Palliative Care units here and there. You'll even find many Palliative Care doctors stating that Euthanasia is unnecessary because of good Palliative Care, but this is untrue at best and somewhat insane at worst. They are paid to say that or they have some peculiar religious shamanistic cult mysticism about themselves. Their career depends upon them saying rubbish like that.
Let us be clear: The one thing, Euthanasia, is not the other, Palliative Care. Both are good things...one, Palliative Care, is under-funded and is having a proportion of its funds mis-appropriated and wasted in the curative arena, and the other, Euthanasia, is illegal.
Let us be clear: The one thing, Euthanasia, is not the other, Palliative Care. Both are good things...one, Palliative Care, is under-funded and is having a proportion of its funds mis-appropriated and wasted in the curative arena, and the other, Euthanasia, is illegal.
Photo of Dr Philip Nitschke who operates Exit International/Euthanasia Australia and a photo of John Wang-Fitzpatrick, a Palliative Care Nursing Expert, who advocates for both Palliative Care and Euthanasia in Australia
Dr Phillip Nitschke
John Wang-Fitzpatrick
"The struggle towards adequate choices for Australians facing end of life reality continues. Palliative Care and Euthanasia are separate entities with separate ethics, but both entities and both ethics are noble, just and worthy.
One cannot meet the needs of the other. Whilst they are separate care entities, neither by itself is adequate to address the issues that people have and will continue to have at the end of their mortal lives here.
Often, when the spectre of Euthanasia rises in the public consciousness, the knee-jerk reaction of Governments is to put funding into Palliative Care and hope the issue goes away. This is a form of malicious 'abandonment' for the many people who desire and seek Euthanasia Services.
Both Palliative Care and Euthanasia are legitimate, honourable, advanced human services and it is not acceptable that Government deals with these issues with squalid socially destructive leger demain trickery ." John W-F
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