Posted on 04/05/2005 8:52:06 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Various creepy people on the Left have been torturing the English language lately to make their Death Culture more palatable to the general public, most of whom prefer to life. First with the Schiavo case, now with the Pope: they market death as if it were another lifestyle option.
Selfish twerps, the public. Don't they know it's very expensive for them to go on living? Don't they know that seasides, wetlands, and highlands are much more scenic if you take away the people? Social Security would be just fine, if only the public would stop living.
The Left's worst abuse of the language is their pap about a "right to die." A tyrant can withhold one's right to vote. A Supreme Court can withhold one's right to be born alive. But no one, not even Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, can turn away the Grim Reaper. Death comes whether you're ready or not.
Humanists want to be as gods. This is why they want to dole out death, usually God's prerogative. But they have yet to find a way to dole out life, which is another thing our Creator does. They're working on it, via human cloning, but they haven't gotten there yet. The best they can do for now is to try to usurp God's authority over death--or at least pretend they have.
There is no "right to die" because everybody dies and there's no way to prevent it. There's no need to rush out to meet death. God will call you in His own good time.
More blather, courtesy of George Felos--"the death process." This is pure poop, an attempt to sugar-coat the simple word "dying." It's like calling a used car "pre-owned." The only thing missing here is a disclaimer rattled off too fast to be understood.
Then there's "death with dignity." They think everyone aspires to be Socrates in the David painting, gesturing grandly as he hoists the cup of poison.
Even Our Lord Jesus Christ prayed that "this cup," the crucifixion, might pass from Him. But he also accepted the will of the Father, and went to the cross as a voluntary sacrifice for our sins. He didn't sugar-coat it, He never pretended it was anything but painful, scary, and grim.
We can, like Pope John Paul II, choose to be dignified when we confront death. We can always choose to do so, without any help from the Hemlock Society.
Let them market death among themselves, and leave the rest of us alone.
Lee Duigon is a Christian free-lance writer whose work can be seen regularly at http://www.chalcedon.edu.
He's right-- their language (and their agenda) is creepy.
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The most offensive euphemism in the Terri Schindler execution was Felos trying to call the execution 'her death process', as if to withhold the execution would be a mean thing once the water stopped, as in only hours from removal of the feeding/hydration tube (her death process begun in Felos's mind had yet to even impact Terri's body negatively)! With that euphemism, Evil inserted its ugly tongue into too many ears of people who now give lip service to the echoes of Satan's charm.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I agree with the message, if not the delivery. :^)
I absolutely wanted to BARF whenever Felos said "death process"---ugh
But I have to tell you, letting the Pope's body lie in state without being embalmed is definitely not letting him "die with dignity", IMHO.
When it comes to the Left, it is almost always all about power, power over the masses by the elite. What greater exhibit of power is there than trying to control who shall live and who shall die. The Left relishes such control over our ultimate destinies, they can hardly contain themselves.
Hence, all the euphemisms by Felos and company. We must stop these snakes in their tracks now. Frist must NOT allow the filibuster of Bush's nominees for judges. that's what the whole battle will come down to, and whoever wins that battle, wins the war.
Blather, huh? You don't like sugar-coating?
Then what about the other extreme -- the extreme right fanatic's description of, "a slow death by starvation of nutrition and hydration".
That's OK, huh?
Did you mean be dead with dignity? I'm pretty sure he's done dieing for good. One might say letting the decomposition of the body take its course naturally is more dignified than being injected with a bunch of chemicals. For the most part I don't think the Pope's all that concerned at this point about what they do with that chunk of biological material.
INTREP - eTHICS - bIOeTHICS
I heard on Fox earlier today, that he was "partially embalmed," but I was waiting to hear whatever possible reason there could be for not fully embalming the body of a Pope (!). I didn't hear the explanation. What could be the reason?
Personally, I don't think that the body lying in state even looks like the man........I mean not at all! Was the mortician trying to make some macabre statement?.......or did John Paul order this kind of a "presentation?"
"-- the extreme right fanatic's description of, "a slow death by starvation of nutrition and hydration".
Okay, how about, no sugar coating or blather or whatever you call this description, and let's call it what it was...
MURDER
LOL. Funny, insightful. Well written.
Slow - requiring a long time.
Death - a permanent cessation of all vital functions : the end of life.
Starve - to suffer or perish from deprivation.
Nutrition - the act or process of nourishing or being nourished.
Hydrate - to cause to take up or combine with water.
Now I will concede that there is no precise, scientific definition of "slow" as it pertains to death. But few people would contend that twelve days is "rapid" when causing the death of a person. So explain, please, how "a slow death by starvation of nutrition and hydration" is in any way an inaccurate or "fanatical" desription of what happened.
THey go on and on about "the right to die" Bullocks!
It isn't like limiting the so-called "right to die" is going to lead to a dictatorship or something. They make it sound like the world would have ended if MS handn't gotten to kill his wife.
That's OK, huh?"
Considering that it is the literal truth, yes I'd say it was OK.
"The truth shall set you free."
..... or do you prefer lying to yourself?
And the "death process" is not accurate?
And the "death process" is the literal truth, also.
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