Once again we have the pro euthanasia/assisted suicide extremists panting in anticipation of its legalization. One has to include the politicians and Supreme Court judges in this group.
If this legislation really applied only to those who are terminally ill and if they decided to do away with themselves there is little we could do about it, providing they performed the act themselves and did not burden someone else with it.
Advocates keep on pretending that assisted suicide/euthanasia are about terminal illness. That's a clear ploy to get people to accept the premise that killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering. Once we accept this premise, the limitations such as "terminal illness" soon melt away.
In Belgium elderly married couples can receive joint euthanasia even though one, or both are not seriously ill. In Austria a healthy couple is praised for committing joint assisted suicide before becoming ill because they feared getting old.
Rationing of health care for the elderly is already being advocated in the U.S.
The Netherlands is now pushing for a "Kill Pill."
In Oregon, patients under the Oregon Health Plan have been denied coverage for treatment and offered coverage for suicide instead. Do we want this to be our choice?
Psychiatrist Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, director of The Program in Medical Ethics, at the University of California said that in 2015 only five per cent of the individuals who have died by assisted suicide under Oregon's law were referred for psychiatric evaluation and that this constitutes a form of gross medical negligence.
This whole program is designed to allow society to rid itself of those who can not help themselves, those with dementia, the aged and the feeble. Perhaps cripples will be next!
Maybe Hitler was a bit before his time!
I would challenge anyone of these lawmakers to volunteer to be the first to avail themselves of this new opportunity that they are creating.
Sociologists will be hard pressed explaining how so many members of the medical profession, traditionally regarded as an essentially altruistic group, were so quickly and easily converted into enthusiastic mass murderers.
The murder of the innocent and the mercy killing of the incurable attracts many adherents. Doctors and nurses become advocates of it. It is clear that those involved soon lose any moral compassion they may previously have possessed.
One thing to remember is that, in the end, we must all answer to a higher authority.
W. Neufeld
Prince George
