Don’t Mix Life And Death: the Sinister MAID Of New Jersey

This one began with a reader request. One of his elderly relatives was legally homicided under questionable circumstances, by a New Jersey doctor Robin Plumer. He can’t afford a lawyer to investigate the death but knew of my true-crime interests, so he asked me to take a look.

I will not be accusing her of any criminal or civilly-liable conduct… but being a self-confessed killer of at least eighty people, Dr. Plumer is surely confident enough in her spirituality to withstand my moral recommendation: don’t mix life and death.

That’s moral, not ethical, because it goes back to God and the symbolism laws of the Old Testament. Don’t boink wifey during her monthly time, why? Because you’re mixing life and death. Don’t boil a goat in its mother’s milk, why? Mixing life and death.

Here’s a well-said opinion about the goat one:

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Boiling a young goat in the very thing that is intended to bring life to the goat would be abhorrent. A goat in the Old Testament was killed for one of two reasons, for food or for atonement for sins. In both instances, the goat is giving up it’s life for the good of the people. Not only has the goat’s life been taken, but now we’re taking something that is intended to give life to the animal, and we’re using it to add flavor to the young animal whose life has been taken. This practice would be considered abhorrent mainly because of the blatant misuse of the milk. It’s main purpose is life intended for the young, not flavoring to please those who take the life of the young.

It’s not unlike the respect that hunters have for the deer that they kill. The hunters I know (and I know quite a few living in Texas), will tell you that one of the most disturbing things that can happen while hunting is that might fail to make a clean kill. That is, they don’t shoot the animal in a place where it’s death is as quick and painless as possible. Hunting isn’t about animal cruelty. It’s about finding food for the hunter. No hunter I know wishes to bring pain upon the animal. They recognize that the life that the deer gives brings life to those who take it (via it’s meat), and they seek to respect the animal by not bringing more unnecessary suffering upon it.

There’s a respect that comes in the exchange of one life for another.

Fortunately, we today can eat cheeseburgers because we aren’t under that law, and because that cheese probably wasn’t a dairy product anyway. Looking at YOU, Kraft Corporation! 

But God does not change: don’t mix life and death. Don’t empower doctors to kill. Which brings us to Dr. Robin Plumer of New Joy-Zee.

Let’s start with a brief summary of how New Jersey does MAID.

Understanding the New Jersey Medical Aid in Dying Act

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By Andrew M. Grenell, Esq., 23 March 2021

In 2019, a law was enacted in the State of New Jersey which authorized medical aid in dying for terminally ill New Jersey residents. The Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, sometimes referred to as the “MAID Act”, provides certain qualifying individuals with the legal option to seek, obtain, and take prescription medication intended to peacefully end their lives instead of suffering through the pain and indignity of the end stages of a terminal illness.

While the MAID Act first became effective on August 1, 2019, the implementation of the MAID Act was immediately stayed by the Court in conjunction with a lawsuit filed by a physician who claimed that the MAID Act was unconstitutional. The MAID Act has only been effective as a practical matter since August 27, 2019…

Perhaps a better legal objection to MAID is that it meets the legal definition of premeditated murder, and the State legalizing it has a conflict of interest thanks to State-subsidized medicine. But I digress.

A patient who wishes to avail themselves of the MAID Act must be:

• • An adult who is 18 years of age or older;
  • Capable of making their own healthcare decisions and communicating those decisions to [at least two] healthcare professional[s];
  • A New Jersey resident; and
  • In the terminal stage of an irreversible illness with six months or less left to live.
  • Additionally, although not expressly stated in the MAID Act, a patient must also be physically capable of self-administering any medication prescribed to end their life.

It’s the do-it-yourself plan? Perhaps the intent is to prevent the doctor from being considered an accomplice.

It’s also false compassion. The reason to get doctors involved in end-of-life decisions has nothing to do with medicine and everything to do with moral inversion. I understand somebody checking out instead of, for example, losing his mind to Alzheimer’s, I wouldn’t even argue against it, but why would he get medical permission? His last act alive would be doing his part to turn healers into killers.

This is an older picture of Robin Plumer that she seems to prefer. I’m told she now has a butch haircut, which is easily believable because she already has Evil Eye and was dressed Goth. Those aren’t hospital scrubs in the pic.

Plumer runs a very visible-on-the-Internet organization that promotes MAID, the only such in New Jersey, although I doubt she’s the only doctor doing it. This link contains two dozen MDs who publicly supported the law in 2019:

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…although “support” and “practice” are two different things. Regardless, I note that several organizations originally supported the law but only Plumer is publicly pushing it.

Now for some background.

Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice Welcomes New Hospice Physician Robin S. Plumer, D.O.

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By NJNews4U, 27 June 2017

Robin S. Plumer, DO, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, has joined Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice as a hospice and palliative care physician. She is the fifth staff doctor at the Marlton-based not-for-profit, whose 325 employees provide a range of services for people with serious illnesses and their families.

Plumer will oversee patients’ care near the end of life, and work with their personal doctors to provide palliative services — including pain relief and social, emotional, and spiritual support.

Pain relief, companionship, emotional support and cyanide on demand. One of those is not like the others.

Plumer recently returned to the United States after spending nine years in New Zealand, where she held a variety of positions in palliative care, emergency medicine, and sexual health. Prior to practicing in New Zealand, she worked for 25 years at Virtua and Kennedy Health systems.

Those are three categories that you don’t often see combined.

Plumer completed her postgraduate diploma in palliative care from the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. She received her doctorate of osteopathy from the former University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, New Jersey (now Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine) and a bachelor of arts, cum laude, in interdepartmental studies-neuropsychology from the University of Rochester, New York.

She’s a doctor of osteopathy. Not an M.D., although D.O. is the next best thing in USA. That’s a slightly alternative form of medicine, like a chiropractor who can prescribe drugs. At least Plumer is more of a real doctor than “Doctor” Tony Fauci. PhD in immunology, never licensed to practice medicine AT ALL.

I tried to trace down why she went to Auckland to learn palliative care, half-expecting to find some Jewish necromancer cult like those archaeologists just did in Jerusalem. (She’s not Jewish, although there’s a findable interview she did with… maybe the topic of my next post.) As best I can determine, however, she went there for their program’s lack of rigor & academic integrity. 

How lacking, you ask? Auckland’s palliative care program has apparently been merged with the Maori equity program to create a secret harem.

Tess & the team awarded the Health Research Council Te Tohu Rapuora Medal

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The Health Research Council (HRC) awarded Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell and the Te Ārai Research Group the Te Tohu Rapuora Medal at the Royal Society Te Apārangi Research Honours event on Wednesday in Hamilton. The medal recognises the contribution to Māori health leadership of a single researcher, research team, or community group.

Tess credited the inspiration of Professor Merryn Gott and the vision of Matua Rawiri Wharemate and Te Ārai’s Kahui Kaumātua to improve Māori end-of-life outcomes. “The end of life is a tapu (sacred) time when the wairua (spirit) is very active, so it’s imperative that great care is taken in this space. We’ve been privileged to hear some of these wairua-filled, end-of-life rituals, which belong to iwi and hapū,” says Dr Moeke-Maxwell.

On the one hand, this is so linguistic-xenophilic that I can barely read it. On the other hand, maybe my crack about Jewish necromancers wasn’t far off, since  this article on Maori witch doctors was on their front page. And on the eleventh finger, 18 of 19 research group members are female. The 19th is a tribal elder.

That sounds like a harem.

Dying patients protest looming telehealth crackdown

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By Jonel Aleccia for Associated Press, 24 April 2023

At age 93, struggling with the effects of a stroke, heart failure and recurrent cancer, Teri Sheridan was ready to end her life using New Jersey’s law that allows medically assisted suicide — but she was bedbound, too sick to travel.

So last Nov. 17, surrounded by three of her children, Sheridan drank a lethal dose of drugs prescribed by a doctor she had never met in person, only online. She died within minutes.

Soon, others who seek Sheridan’s final option may find it out of reach, the unintended result of a federal move to roll back online prescribing of potentially addictive drugs allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“How much should one person suffer?” said Sheridan’s daughter, Georgene White, 68. “She wanted to just go to sleep and not wake up.”

Online prescribing rules for controlled drugs were relaxed three years ago under emergency waivers to ensure critical medications remained available during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed a rule that would reinstate most previously longstanding requirements that doctors see patients in person before prescribing narcotic drugs such as Oxycontin, amphetamines such as Adderall, and a host of other potentially dangerous drugs.

Telehealth doesn’t work for hospice/palliative care. Why didn’t Plumer make a house call? Is her field anything but pain management drugs? One difference between M.D. and D.O. is the latter emphasizes physical therapy and other, non-telehealth-compatible approaches to medicine, so this D.O. has even less of an excuse.

Which is it, Dr. Plumer? Do you comfort the sick and dying, or do you resent having to meet them in person before prescribing the hemlock?

The proposal has sparked a massive backlash, including more than 35,000 comments to a federal portal and calls from advocates, members of Congress and medical groups to reconsider certain patients or provisions.

Among the biggest complaints: The rule would delay or block access for patients who seek medically assisted suicide and hospice care, critics said. Many of the comments — including nearly 10,000 delivered in person to DEA offices — came from doctors and patients protesting the effect of the rule on seriously ill and dying patients.

I have trouble believing that inconveniencing the suicidal was a major complaint against ending telehealth.

Telemedicine was key to access during the COVID emergency, said Dr. Robin Plumer, the New Jersey doctor who prescribed the drugs Teri Sheridan took. Plumer has overseen 80 assisted suicide deaths since 2020. Without online prescribing, 35% to 40% of her patients wouldn’t have been able to use the law.

Or, she could have visited them. It’s not like signing paperwork requires an MRI scan. (If it does then how was MAID-telehealth even a thing to begin with?)

“I feel like we’ve taught people over the past couple of years that telemedicine does work in so many areas and it’s a great improvement for people,” especially for those who are homebound or dying, Plumer said.

“And what?” she said. “They’re suddenly going to yank that away?”

The problem I find with Plumer is that she, being a hospice doctor and advocate for MAID, is like a Pfizer sales rep getting a second job as intake receptionist at a cancer ward. She has a major conflict of interest regarding the welfare of vulnerable patients. How do we know she isn’t in the nursing home just to… ah, headhunt… potential clients?

Those who comfort the dying should not also be the ones culling them. Don’t mix life and death. The hunters should do the killing, not the nurturers.

And don’t weasel out, all ye butchers of New Jersey, by saying “I only provided the method, I didn’t make the choice.” A man could use that exact argument to justify beheading a MAID patient with a katana. Women prefer to do their killing with poison, that’s all.