Posted on 03/22/2009 11:54:31 AM PDT by wagglebee
I remember seeing the movie Soylent Green in the early 70s. One of the shocks of the film has E.G. Robinson's character leaving a note to Charlton Heston that he was "going home," which turned out to be death via a euthanasia clinic. As I recall, the idea that society would become so crass and abandoning as to permit clinics where people would go to be killed was seen as beyond the pale.
Well, in the 1990s, Kevorkian urged the establishment of suicide/euthanasia clinics. Many laughed that off as advocacy from a fringe kook--even though he had better poll numbers than Barack Obama does today.
Now suicide clinic promotion has entered the mainstream of politics. None other than Patricia Hewitt, the former Health Minister in the Blair Government, wants to see them established in the UK. From the story:
Suicide clinics should be set up in the UK and "assisted suicide" legalised, Patricia Hewitt said yesterday.Forget the nonsense about terminal illness. As we have noted often, the Swiss suicide clinics that receive "suicide tourists" from the UK and elsewhere are not so constrained either in law or in practice.
The ex-Health Secretary will try to change the law next week so people who take terminally ill loved ones abroad to die cannot be jailed. But she eventually wants to go further and legalise assisted suicide. Ms Hewitt said she had been "quite troubled by the issue for several years". She added: "My own view is that we should have a law for people who are terminally ill but also mentally competent of making that very grave decision."
And as the culture of death moves forward, they still claim that their agenda is nonexistent.
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Do they show pleasant videos on iMax and put your favorite music on the Dolbly 7.1? Reminds me a of a ‘70’s movie starring Charleton Heston and Edward G. Robinson...
“Grave decision” huh? Sick bass turds.
Sounds like Soylent Green...
I’ve been saying it for awhile now. This WILL come to pass.
The left loves death. The left hates itself and wants to eliminate itself. Read the book “United in Hate.”
I’ll bet they accept cash only.
Little green crackers everyone.
IMO the reason we are seeing life mirror science fiction is not chance. The plans for what is happening now were set in place in the 60-70s when much of the science fiction was written.
Of course he wants suicide clinics. You can’t tax some guy who just blew his own head off!!
Will they charge sales tax? Will they give refunds if the customer changes his mind? Will there be discounts for Members of Parliament? Will the cost be tax-deductible as a medical expense? Will there be free parking for customers?
Suicide Clinics are a logical conclusion for Universal Health Care in countries that practice socialized medicine.The Stimulus Plan will spend billions to change the way health care is administered in the the U.S.A. that will force our health care system to initiate rationing to save money.
When health care is free only the healthy survive.
Caution: if you are over 50, beware!
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