Chicago Tribune’s ‘Right to die’ in Illinois editorial disqualifies Trib Editorial Board as potential debate judges.

 Chicago Tribune’s ‘Right to die’ in Illinois editorial disqualifies Trib Editorial Board as potential debate judges.

I thought the Tribune Editorial Board could come up with cogent arguments to oppose the pending right to die Legislation in Illinois. But after spending most of the editorial describing its importance to the extreme suffering of the near dead and their families, the Trib offers just 2 minor concerns the Trib uses to oppose right to die in Illinois.

First, they oppose any end of life options involving a physician whose sole obligation is to cure patients and prevent death. That narrow job description for doctors ignores that they have been assisting suffering, terminal patients to die since the first doctor started practicing.

The Trib’s second concern is bizarre. It cites a Harvard study that found “only 40.7% of physicians were “very confident” in their ability to provide equal quality care to patients with disabilities.” That study concerned disability patients, not end of life patients suffering horribly. Besides what does 40.7% of doctors not feeling “very confident” about anything have to do with a critical issue that every American might face before they check out from life.

It appears the Trib was searching for any possible reason, however specious, to justify their preordained position. If the Trib Board was in a debate on right to die…it would not move on from Round One.

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