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Posted on 01/25/2018 3:55:03 PM PST by Morgana
Assisted suicide is the ultimate slippery slope. Time and time again, proponents use heart-wrenching stories of people suffering through pain and anguish as they endure incurable or terminal illnesses, and use these as examples of why we need, as they call it, “death with dignity.” But leaving aside the awful notion of suicide being more dignified than dying a natural death, this never remains the line when it comes to assisted suicide. The parameters get changed and stretched, and the line gets moved further and further.
Now, healthy people are being euthanized… solely because of mental illness. In the Netherlands, RTL News reports (translated) that 29-year-old “Sarah” will be put to death on January 26th. According to the article, Sarah has battled mental illness since she was a child; she has borderline personality disorder, self-harms, hears voices, suffers psychosis, and struggles with depression. She also is suicidal, having attempted suicide over 20 times.
These should be reasons why Sarah is denied euthanasia; she clearly is not fit to make such a decision. Yet in the Netherlands, that evidently isn’t a problem.
“I want to die in a dignified way. I think that after such a rotten life I am entitled to a dignified death; people who have a serious illness also get a chance for a worthy end,” Sarah said to RTL News. “Why is it so difficult for people who are to be psychic (sic), I think I have the right to die dignified, I am a human being.”
In 2017, Sarah was given what she thought was one final chance for treatment, one final therapy. But ultimately, she was turned away. “I would be admitted to a clinic for three months, but after an intake interview, they said they could not help me, my problem was too complicated,” she explained. “Because they could not help me, I was untreated and that is an important condition for euthanasia, and soon after that I started the euthanasia process.”
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Sarah’s problem is not that she needs to die; it’s that she is not receiving proper psychiatric care. And why should the Netherlands provide it to her? It’s far easier and cheaper to just kill her.
Sadly, Sarah is not alone. In the Netherlands, one person with mental illness is euthanized every week, sometimes against their will and without their consent. Across the rest of the world, people have been euthanized because they are transgender, depressed, or fighting addiction. Victims of sexual abuse, who struggled with depression afterwards, have also been euthanized.
In Canada, it’s even worse; the Quebec government, for example, is considering allowing people with Alzheimer’s to be euthanized without their consent. The government is also conducting a formal study to determine whether or not people with mental illnesses should qualify for euthanasia. There is even a push for this here in the United States.
Assisted suicide is a cancer which must be stamped out. It preys on the most vulnerable people in society — the sick, the mentally ill, the disabled, the poor — and wraps up their suicides as “dignified.” But the truth is, there is nothing dignified about a death sentence from a society eager to tell someone that their life is no longer worth living.
who has the terris list ping?
Yet, they won’t execute murderers.
Is this an approach that can be tried with the “homeless”?
Guess who gets to decide what mental illness is.
So, she voted democrat?
“The underlying motive was the desire to help individuals who could not help themselves and were thus prolonging their lives in torment. ... To quote Hippocrates today is to proclaim that invalids and persons in great pain should never be given poison. But any modern doctor who makes so rhetorical a declaration without qualification is either a liar or a hypocrite. ... I never intended anything more than or believed I was doing anything but abbreviating the tortured existence of such unhappy creatures… I am convinced that today they have overcome their distress and personally believe that the dead members of their families were given a happy release from their sufferings.”
From testimony given by Dr. Karl Brandt, Adolf Hitler’s personal physician and head of Nazi Germanys Euthanasia Program. Sentenced to death and executed June 2, 1948 at Landsberg prison in Bavaria for War Crimes.
Or irresponsible parents who refuse to support their litters.
But they want to kill sick people and mentally challenged people like the nazis, ewww...
It’s too late for Sarah now, but I wonder if a lobotomy would have helped her? This procedure did not help a famous sufferer of depression, Ernest Hemmingway, but perhaps the surgeon of today would be better trained.
The fact that this young lady has attempted suicide at least 20 times, means she will be forever caught in this bobwire of depression without some kind of profound intervention. Physiologically, this is how she came into the world, perilously flawed.
PMS.
The Dutch Import, Mohammedans decide.
With euthanasia, they are the murderers.
Nuremberg Precedent: Just because murder is legal according to national law doesn't mean it is unpunishable according to the law of nations.
As an unapologetic deplorable I could easily be diagnosed,by some,as being mentally ill.Once diagnosed a “wise Latina” type could easily rule from the bench that the compassionate thing to do is to put me down.
How much of a person's desire for suicide is founded upon his own sad circumstance that soulless people around him are not only indifferent to his continued existence, but are even willing to 'assist' in his demise?
Nothing ingrains 'you are worthless and unloved' more than being around people who think your life is disposable and your death a net benefit, providing an opportunity to virtue-signal.
Terrible that the ill and depressed don't see that God loves and values them greatly and has many ways to rectify and turn things around, giving purpose, meaning, and order in a manner beyond what humans can comprehend.
Why give victory to the death squads. They'll just move on to exploit and destroy another victim. It's what they do.
/sarc
The last hundred years has been a century of the “slippery slope” in law, in more areas than one, and people just refuse to admit it. Every thing from making “law enforcement ‘easier’ “, taking property via eminent domain on excuses not considered legitimate when eminent domain was established in this country, “civil” forfeiture of property when no court anywhere has found the owner guilty of a crime, “marriage” slipped down to whomever wants to call themselves a married, and many other, and to euthanasia.
The Netherlands has plenty of competent psychiatrists. You are quite right; this is just a rehash of the old NSDAP doctrines, although done quietly and privately to prevent bad optics.
Politics is not going to fix this. This is a spiritual and cultural dilemma.
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