What do you do with a patient who prev. requested MAiD, but is semi-lucid and actively resists being killed?

One MAiD doc says:

"I’m guessing I would bring in one of their other providers, you know, palliative care or whatever, and get them sedated."

nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/… Another detailed, horrifying piece from @AlexanderRaikin

Canada's doctors aren't making a secret of how far they'll go to kill the people whose lives are assessed as not worth living.

https://twitter.com/AlexanderRaikin/status/1702444462612377705

"Our storytellers’ obsession with revenge dramas and tragic backstory — the recent BBC series even gives one to Sherlock Holmes, who is possibly the least in-need-of-explanation character ever — is a necessity when appealing to an audience unable or unwilling to break out

1/3 "of the suffocating regime of health, safety, and productivity. The protagonist’s very agon, his taking his fate in his own hands, is no threat to you, they say. It’s okay that you, Joseph P. Schmoe, don’t try to chart your own path in the world;

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“Heard was stunned as the expert canvassed his computer and announced his findings: He could find work as a nut sorter, a dowel inspector or an egg processor — jobs that virtually no longer exist in the United States.”

https://twitter.com/Reinlwapo/status/1607772986123161602

“I realized that a lot of vocational experts, including myself, have been giving false testimony for years,” Underwood said. “The numbers are not accurate. I decided I can’t do that anymore.”

washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

I signed up for a LARP at #gencon so I reached out to the GM to say I was bringing a 6mo baby and could they incorporate that into my character?

I got a character sheet saying I was a minor noblewoman who had recently had a baby… or so it appeared to others. 1/3 But my character was really a sorcery-using spy for a rival kingdom, and the baby was really my cat familiar in disguise. They even wrote some custom abilities so that when I *appeared* to pause play to nurse or change a diaper, I was really receiving secret information. 2/3

This is right on from
@DouthatNYT

nytimes.com/2020/12/19/opi…

When I was an atheist, I was frustrated that folks didn’t bring the fierce curiosity that drives science to philosophy.

This is why I made sure to tell people I was a *virtue-ethicist atheist* because

1/3 Just "not believing in God" or even "believing in science" didn't actually explain what you believed about our duties to others. This is the period when, weeks before my conversion to Catholicism, I went to the Reason Rally with this sign.

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I think the zoom wedding I’m attending has layered some fussy baby noises over the polyphony on the waiting screen, and I am charmed. #swelltoberogel

All weddings (and all Masses) should have audible babies. Beatrice is excited to one day do her bit. Ah, there are few socially distanced babies in the actual church! I wouldn’t have put piping them in past @feminaprovita! She’s a good friend to babies.

Celebrating St. Patrick's day with all of twitter, as we pray his Breastplate together. #TwitterInThisFatefulHour

I bind unto myself today
The strong name of the Trinity,
By invocation of the same
The Three in One and One in Three...

1/17 I bind this today to me forever
By power of faith, Christ’s incarnation;
His baptism in Jordan river,
His death on cross for my salvation...

St Patrick, pray for us

@Dontstopbelief 2/17

https://twitter.com/Dontstopbelief/status/1239935221023354883

Fr. Martin, in this thread, goes on to give a partial list of sins that should cause us to fear hell, and then concludes that a school should fire teachers either for all of these or none of these. Here's why I disagree:

https://twitter.com/JamesMartinSJ/status/1141816151489560580

Teaching at a Catholic school does not imply that the archdiocese has found the teacher to be sinless (a very surprising finding!) or that they've at least found the people with the least serious sins.

This isn't how we try to prevent murders. The goal isn't to make murder logistically impossible but to make it undesired (through a mix of value inculturation, resources to deescalate aggression, high clearance rates, etc.).

Making abortion rarely desired, not just rare...

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https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1128677985253511168

Making abortion rarely desired, not just rare won't happen by leaning further into the idea that healthy human bodies are defective + dangerous. A truthful society can't requiring folks to suppress their fertility to be part of the world (which we currently expect of women).

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"To look into the eyes of a vulnerable person is to see yourself as you might be. It’s a more harrowing experience than one might readily admit. There is a version of yourself made powerless, status diminished, reliant upon the goodwill of others."

https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1042424902354124805

"One response is denial: If you refuse to believe you could ever be in such a position—perhaps by blaming the frail for their frailty or ascribing their vulnerability to moral failure—You come away disgusted with the weak, but content in the certainty you aren’t among them."

I was all for banning silencers, assault weapons, etc. until I researched gun deaths for @FiveThirtyEight
wapo.st/2wvgMw3 Now, I'm better informed and frustrated at how politicians sold me soundbitable solutions that are (at best) not backed by data, & at worst