Elderly 'Tired of Life' Next Category for Termination
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February 17, 2010 (Secondhand Smoke)
The Netherlands vividly illustrates how euthanasia/assisted suicide cannot logically be limited to the restricted category of people diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Since euthanasia began there under official sanction–first decriminalization and then formal legalization–the Dutch have fallen off a moral cliff in which all kinds of people are killed by doctors or assisted in suicide–including disabled infants and people who haven’t asked to die.
Had you told the Dutch that their "limited" license, under oh, so strict "guidelines" would lead to baby killing, I wonder whether it would have gone forward. But that is water under Suicide Bridge. I have long believed that once killing is accepted as an acceptable answer to human suffering, the culture changes to the point that life itself ceases to matter if the person in question is perceived as "suffering."
Now, Dutch citizens have rushed to put a measure before the Parliament that would allow people age 70 and older who are "tired of life," to have access to assisted suicide–even if they aren’t sick or disabled.
