Topic: Has our news always been this bad? (Read 939 times)

Exactly, today its all about money, it sure as hell isnt about cutting you or your loved ones pain and keeping dignity.
In my opinion, everyone should have the power to decide for themselves and for their closest when it comes to that point, everything else is messing with personal rights.

cheers

Man wakes up after 12 years of coma: “I was aware of everything”



When he was 12, Martin Pistorius came home with a sore throat. His condition quickly deteriorated and he was soon unable to move or even talk, and eventually crashed into a coma which would go on to last 12 years. It’s not clear what his disease was, and doctors don’t really know what happened to him, though the likely suspect is cryptococcal meningitis. Everybody thought he was a “vegetable”, but after 12 years in a coma, not only did he wake up – but he says he remembers everything and was perfectly conscious for most of the time. His body became his prison, but he was ultimately able to escape after spending years trying to communicate with the outside world.

According to Martin, about two years in his condition, he regained consciousness.

Unfortunately, there were no tests conducted on him at the time, which would have likely figured out that his brain is very much active. Martin is subject of the first episode of NPR’s new series Invisibilia.

He says that among the worst memories is the cartoon character Barney, which he was forced to watch for hours and hours straight.

‘I cannot even express to you how much I hated Barney,’ Martin recalled on the first episode of NPR’s new radio show about human behavior, Invisibilia.

Pistorius could see and even hear what was around him, but he couldn’t move. He felt as if his body was encased, and even when he started to make small movements, nobody noticed. That’s when the sadness really kicked in… and Barney was the last straw.

“You don’t really think about anything. You simply exist. It’s a very dark place to find yourself because, in a sense, you are allowing yourself to vanish.”


http://www.zmescience.com/medicine/mind-and-brain/man-coma-wakes-up-14012015/


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No doubt, barney is pure torture...

 

Only two things have changed:
1. More people;
2. Better communication.

I personally think people who advocate keeping someone artificially alive with no genuine hope of a cure are advocating torture because that's how much pain you put them in by keeping them on machines, but of course the people advocating this have no fucking clue about what it would be like for them because they're all fit and healthy and in a position to make such ignorant comments.

It's like listening to men rant on about abortion and of course it's almost always men because women actually know the kind of pain and problems involved with pregnancy and having a child.

Haha Big Pharma doesn't want us to decide when we want to check out with dignity, they want us hooked up to their life support systems until your savings and medical schemes are are taped out then they will happily pull the plug

I've noticed online journalism getting worse. They (either the news org or the journalist) are fighting for your attention and dramatic or wild headlines do that. The unfortunate thing is that it reduces the quality of journalism. Journalism used to be completely objective and now it's more about making meaningless stories sensational. It's a bit like politics, which has become so watered down with politicians saying whatever they think voters want to hear rather than what they really want to achieve in government.

CNN is awful with bogus, sensationalized headlines.

... Or the author of that article wants euthanasia to be law of the land but knows how to use doublespeak and lies like his master, sith lord Øbama, to achieve this ultimate goal in stealth mode. That would be one of the reason why this is on cnn and not on foxnews...

 

I think it's always been this bad, calling it murder and death is exactly the kind of talk that social and religious conservatives use, the person who wrote this article probably belongs to that camp and CNN has always been pretty shit as a news source anyway.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/12/us/california-right-to-die-lawsuit/index.html

"Woman suing California for her right to die at home"

You have to read half way through the article to even understand that the woman in question is not as the title suggests suing for the right to die at home. She is suing for the right to physician assisted suicide.

Nowhere in the article will you find the words euthanasia or physician assisted suicide.
Instead she is suing for "her right to die on her own terms" and to "die with dignity."

Is the word euthanasia taboo now? It looks to have been replaced with "end-of-life options."

I am all for a rational discussion on the merits of physician assisted suicide. There is certainly an argument that can be made on both sides of the issue. However, when did the media starting using talking points in their news articles. I expect to see that from political pundits not mainstream news. Has it always been this bad or have I gotten more jaded in my old age and simply notice it more?