Posted on 01/26/2009 9:05:10 AM PST by wagglebee
The black plastic bin liners were bulging and cluttered the back stairs to the office of Ludwig Minelli, founder and head of the assisted suicide organisation Dignitas.
Soraya Wernli was new to the job as a 'companion', one of those hired by Minelli, 75, to assist people in their final journey to the 'other side'.
Paperwork, words of comfort, a gentle hand for those about to end their pain-filled lives - these were some of the things the former district nurse knew she was signing up for when she agreed to work for him.
'But then, just a few days into the job, he asked me to sort through the stuff in these plastic bin liners clogging the stairs,' she said.
'Minelli said I should empty the sacks onto a long table - they were huge - and sort through everything. I opened one up and was horrified by what was inside. Mobile phones, handbags, ladies' tights, shoes, spectacles, money, purses, wallets, jewels.
'I realised these were possessions which had been left behind by the dead. They had never been returned to family members. Minelli made his patients sign forms saying the possessions were now the property of Dignitas and then sold everything on to pawn and second-hand shops.
'I felt disgusted. You see these old photos of people in Nazi death camps sorting through the possessions of those who had been gassed. Well, right then and there, that is how I felt.'
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He is a depraved and greedy murderer!
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You’ve got to read this! (I had to excerpt, but click the link to read the whole thing.)
The woman is on thin philosophical ice because even after all that she has witnessed she still beleives in “assisted suicide”.
The whole idea is just wrong. In “Do not go gentle into that Good Night”, note that Dylan Thomas calls the afterlife “good” but asks his father to fight on. It is man’s duty to fight for that last breath. Thomas’ poem shows so much more love than “oh I hate seeing him suffer I just wish the doctor would off him right now”.
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| Dignitas Personae (The Dignity of a Person) |
| Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith |
| Dignitas Personae, an Instruction on ethical issues arising from biomedical research, was published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 12 December 2008. The Instruction defends the life of unborn human beings, created in the image of God, and provides guidance on how to respect human life and human procreation in our scientific age. |
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