[.cnI redruM]

Euthanasia is Auschwitz with a happy face. Coleman is absolutely dead right about it's tragic impact on the disabled population.

With medical care becoming increasingly socialized, each individual relies on someone who could truely care less about their welfare to pay the bill. Thus the selected application of euthanasia to high cost patients like the elderly, the insane or the physically disabled becomes the fiscal equivalent to a tax cut and tax cuts are very popular public policy.

Euthanasia supporters mostly mean well. They see terrible human suffering and want the pain stopped. They fail to notice the stealth bomber of human destruction that quietly flys over head after being fueled by their noble intentions.

[jwalburg]

I agree. Great article. I can't help but think of the pressure that would begin to force humble, elderly people to feel obligated to go for euthanasia if it ever became a choice. My grandma hated to be in the way. I can't imagine what her feelings of guilt would be if all this pressure were around, and it would be there on all elderly if euthanasia should become normalized.

[Alberta's Child]

He subsequently wrote a book detailing the suffering caused by his becoming disabled in an auto accident — he was blind, mute, and quadriplegic — and urging that euthanasia be legalized.

If a blind, mute quadriplegic can write a book, then it would seem that his life is certainly worth living.

What is most interesting about cases like this is that they involved people who are not in a "persistent vegetative state" -- the usual "compassion" case used by the pro-euthanasia movement. The only thing "wrong" with this man was his disability. Which brings up an interesting question -- if a disabled person is considered a candidate for euthanasia under the law, can we at least be consistent in our approach and do away with the Americans with Disabilities Act?

[Alberta's Child]

If one were to sit down today and compare the United States of 2003 to the world in the 1930s, he would find that we have far more in common with the Germany of the 1930s than the U.S. of that era.

"The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn anything from history." -- Friedrich Hegel

[nickcarraway]

BUMP

[bert]

The cabbage truged up the grden path to the radish row and knocked on the door.

Mrs Radish came to the door and he told her " I have some bad news, your son was run over by the wheel barrow."

"Oh my goodness" she exclaimed "was he hurt badly?"

Cabbage replied, "Thr Dr thinks he'll survive, but he will always be a vegetable."