Pat Robertson Shames Terminally Ill Woman Planning Suicide For Promoting Liberal ‘Culture Of Death’

[big_dog]

Pat Robertson and others at his Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) on Wednesday told a terminally ill woman that she was making a mistake if she chose to end her life on her terms. Earlier this year, Brittany Maynard moved to Oregon to take advantage of the state’s physician assisted suicide law after doctors told her that her brain cancer meant six more painful months to live.

“I can’t even tell you the amount of relief it provides me to know that I don’t have to die the way that its been described to me the way that my brain tumor would take me on its own,” she explained in a recent interview. Pat Robertson said that the “culture of death” created by “so-called liberals” was to blame for the Oregon law. “They want to kill babies, they want to kill the terminally ill,” he charged. “They don’t seem to honor life. And what we should do is honor life, not hasten death.”

“You want to pressure somebody? And you say to them, would you like to run up huge bills and burden your loved ones? Wouldn’t it be easier just to leave this world?” the TV preacher continued. “The culture of death is so pervasive, and the pressure to end the life of these people, it is really tough.” In the end, Robertson argued that the best choice for Maynard and others was to “leave these things in God’s hands.” “She has brain cancer, but brain cancer can get healed,” he opined. “God can heal anything.” http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/pat-robertson-shames-terminally-ill-woman-planning-suicide-for-promoting-liberal-culture-of-death/

[Frustratedlady]

1. Maybe he can get her a place on the Rapture line-up.

How old is Robertson, anyway?

[bullwinkle428]

2. Dear Pat Robertson,

We anxiously await your impending arrival to the place we humbly call "home", and have a wide variety of interesting activities planned for you once you get here.

Sincerely,

Satan

[C_U_L8R]

3. Fuck Pat Robertson

What a self-serving scumbag.

[Johonny]

4. brain cancer can get healed- but sadly there is still no cure for Pat Robertson's brand of stupid

we can only hope to contain it by openly laughing at him whenever possible.

[Beaverhausen]

8. Not the type this woman has

It's called the "Terminator" and a friend of mine who is 45 was just diagnosed with the same thing. She's lucky if she lives a year.

Fuck cancer

[liberalhistorian]

16. My BIL died

of the same thing recently, about a year after diagnosis. It is, indeed, terminal, and there's not much that can be done except some treatments to prolong life a bit longer. The last couple of months were really bad, as they would be, and are starting to be, for this young woman, and I don't blame her at all for what she wants to do and I understand it totally.

I'm so sorry for your friend. Fuck cancer and FUCK Pat fucking Robertson.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. "...leave these things in God's hands".......The same bumbling God that invented cancer?

Not to mention millionaire preachers like Robertson.

[KamaAina]

6. As you well know from the other thread, I, too, oppose assisted suicide

but "culture of death"?! Linking this to abortion is just wrong.

[LeftishBrit]

7. There are few things that make me more angry than these political 'pro-lifers'

Who go around smearing political candidates who think terminally ill people should be able to make their own end-of-life decisions, as somehow wanting to go around killing sick people: this affected or should I say INfected my constituency very directly in the 2010 elections so I feel quite strongly about it! Or, much worse, attack the terminally ill people themselves for wanting to make their own decisions. For example, in the UK, Terry Pratchett, who has early-onset Alzheimers, has expressed his desire to end his life at a time of his own choosing, and thinks that people should be legally entitled to make that decision. The horrible RW journalist Cristina Odone (also one of the main smearers of my ex-MP), not only disagrees, which is of course her right, but has viciously attacked Pratchett in print: '..ever since I heard Pratchett claim that only the "far Right" had any objections to assisted suicide, I have loathed him. For a man blessed with such talent and success, who wields an influence on so many young people, to rubbish life so publicly is disgraceful.'

Yes, I too once thought this sort of Christian Right viciousness didn't happen in England!!!


The point is also that in the past, medicine didn't have the power to keep many very sick people alive for months and years. Severely and terminally ill people usually died quickly. Modern medicine is a wonderful thing, but it's brought about its own dilemmas

[raccoon]

9. Liberals aren't the ones who shredded the safety net. Pot's calling the kettle black. nt

[dembotoz]

10. liberal culture of death---here in wisconsin probate laws are now

where much of any aid from the state of wisconsin that a terminal person gets is charged back tO The Estate

doing paperwork on my moms estate even as we speak i can send you the forms.

have already decided that at the first sign of any incapacitating illness i am going to eat a bullet.
if i go into a nursing home or get home hospice--walker takes the house.

death panels are here
in wisconsin this women is taking the only financially pragmatic way out

[Sheepshank]

11. Perhpas a little brain tumor transplant

along with the incessant and every increasing pain, suffering, seizures, paralysis etc will allow him to walk in the shoes of someone whom GOD has decided needs to suffer until they die. God, if there is one, never described makind as brainless and helpless...they sentient beings able to make decision and able to created the situations and circumstances to make those decisions a reality. Pat Robertson, is trying to tell us that there are some times when we are not permitted to make our own decisions and the moments when we can and cannot are upto Pat Robertson's determination. Asshole

[Daemonaquila]

12. What an ass-rag.

She was clearly not pressured, and no person in that position is advocating that anyone else's wishes or financial interests should be taken into account. His statement that god can heal brain cancer is just idiotic dickishness, and he should be shamed for trying to peddle false hopes.

[Initech]

13. A guy who worshipps the rapture gets no right to call out others for a "culture of death".

Oh and fuck you Pat Robertson. I hope that the god you worship sends you straight to hell.

[Eleanors38]

14. Still waiting for that comet to hit Orlando.

[SteveG]

15. Robertson shames himself

as one who has no compassion. Death by brain cancer is ugly, very, very ugly. Painful, complete loss of dignity, loss of identity, no moral deity would require anyone to go through that kind of end.

[pipi_k]

17. I have no

words to describe the pure ugliness of the soul of someone who thinks he has the right to comment on someone else's suffering and how that person should deal with it.

Ugh.

He literally makes me sick to my stomach

[Initech]

18. Lewis Black is right - good people die young, and pricks like Pat Robertson live forever.