Right to die is the next step. First will be the very few who request euthanasia due to great pain and suffering. Then the state will begin providing end of life counseling to the extremely ill and their families pressuring the patient to do themselves a favor and depart life sooner to avoid suffering.
Next will come state legislation compelling doctors to pull the plug on patients who have been “clinically dead” (as defined by government bureaucrats) after a defined period of time (first weeks, later days, later hours).
Ultimately we will get to Zeke Emanuel’s dream. The government will define an age at which life no longer benefits society. On your 75th birthday you’ll go to the local center where you will be “humanely” put to sleep. Of course there will be exceptions for the select few like Dr. Emanuel, his brother Rahm, and others who are deemed to still be making a contribution to society.
The government will save billions in health care and social security as a result of euthanasia. The other dimension of the program will be seizure of all assets by the government at end of life. After all, it will be for the greater good and it isn’t fair to pass down “advantages and privileges” from generation to generation.
Just like in “Soylent Green.”
there are what, 300k soldiers with head injuries from the Iraq war? That’s the number i thought i’ve read.
The brain injured suffer terribly. I have one and it really sucks! And it’s nothing compared to the majority of theirs.
But guess what folks. This is the life we got.
I’d rather go down swinging for our soldiers and pushing for better treatment and funding of research for these injured soldiers than off myself.
But scientists have to get rocking. WAY too many soldiers are taking their lives because of the suffering.
And though suicide’s always wrong, I feel in my heart God will not send them to a second hell.
We have to keep hope alive for them. they need treatment and cures.
Not mobile euthanasia vehicles.
If I lived in Quebec, I'd put into my will that if I shuffled off this mortal coil from any type of euthanasia all my estate would automatically go to the SPCA.
Leni