Posted on 08/18/2006 2:44:39 PM PDT by madprof98
LONDON, August 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week, a popular BBC radio announcer told the public that she had entered into a “suicide pact” with friends should she be incapacitated by illness.
Jenni Murray, the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, a feminist and euthanasia advocate, said that she does not want to be “trapped” into caring for her mother who is ill with Parkinson’s disease.
Murray, a member of the Order of the British Empire and a patron of the Family Planning Association, is airing her views tonight on a BBC television program called “Don’t Get Me Started.” Publicity material for the show says that Murray “plans to end her own life when she becomes a burden to those around her.” She discusses methods, including smothering with a pillow or injecting with drugs, with two friends,
The network said: "Jenni is angry that, having fought so hard to become liberated and independent, women are now being trapped into caring for dependent parents."
Murray complains that the law against assisted suicide is supported by a “religious minority” who hold to an outdated moral view that human life is inherently valuable and that children have a legitimate obligation to care for elderly parents.
The program highlights the growth, especially in Britain, of the idea of an “obligation to die.” Most leading thinkers in the bioethics field endorse euthanasia and assisted suicide and often argue that elderly and ill patients have the obligation to end their lives to relieve pressure on families and the health care system.
In 2004, Baroness Mary Warnock, Britain’s leader in bioethics, said unequivocally that the ill and elderly had an obligation to die as soon as possible so as not to burden relatives and the medical system. Baroness Warnock, called Britain's “Philosopher Queen”, said in an interview, “In other contexts sacrificing oneself for one's family would be considered good. I don't see what is so horrible about the motive of not wanting to be an increasing nuisance.”
She said, “I am not ashamed to say some lives are more worth living than others.”
UK's "Philosopher Queen," Warnock Says Elderly and Ill have Obligation to Suicide http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/dec/04121406.html
This is what used to be called a Nazi.
If she wants to hurry up and depart this world I am sure she won't be missed.
Am I missing the place where the MOTHER says she doesn't want to live?
All I see is the spoiled child saying she doesn't want to be burdened with caring for her mother.
Instead of pulling the plug on momma, she could just off herself to end all of her obligations to anyone.
This shouldn't surprise anyone much. This is only the next logical step in the liberal culture of death. It's a well-worn path, walked by many selfish-to-the-core people over the years.
What a selfish, ungrateful wench.
"The network said: "Jenni is angry that, having fought so hard to become liberated and independent, women are now being trapped into caring for dependent parents."
The feminazis know how to get rid of unborn children they don't want. Now they have to figure out how to get rid of burdensome parents.
These people are a true horror.
These liberal wing-nuts can be bought by the pallette-load nowadays. Total selfish insanity, so typical of the left. It is all about SELF.
Funny how leftists parrot the Nazis. Hitler started the first antismoking campaign.
That's not true and you know it. Specific threads, posters?
This bucaiola is an OBE? The Queen and the honors list people must have been hard up for candidates THAT year.
There was a time when caring for your dependent parents was regarded as the morally correct thing for a decent person to do. It was also seen as an honorable and loving act.
I guess I should not be surprised that the folks who brought us abortion for personal convenience now advocate euthanasia for personal convenience.
I suspect that without God as the central figure in their lives, people like Jenni make themselves the central figure in their lives.
How sad.
"Jenni Murray, the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, a feminist and euthanasia advocate, said that she does not want to be “trapped” into caring for her mother who is ill with Parkinson’s disease."
Bet good ol' Jenni's mom wishes she had opted for an abortion so good ol' Jenni wouldn't have to endure being "trapped into caring for her mother who is ill with Parkinson's disease." Ya know, if there is a hell, I bet it has spot just a little bit hotter for folks like good ol' Jenni.
You are too kind. The proper point on that graph is "D" - Despicable - which is BELOW the catastrophe line. Well below.
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Jenni's interests include riding horses, the theatre, needlepoint and knitting.
She is patron of the Family Planning Association and vice president of the Parkinson Disease Society.
WTF?!
These people are toddlers in adult bodies.
They are childish to their very core.
You are so right. I would be ashamed not to care for my parent(my father is dead), or my in-laws. It is my duty. These people are so selfish. Just Damn!
I'm not going to name-call. I will just point out that threads about moral issues and/or social conservatism of any kind draw a group of posters who preach the "I'm the master of my fate, the captain of my soul" line. They use this to justify the sort of absolute personal autonomy (and consequent freedom from both social convention and moral obligation) that our leftist friends are celebrating so vocally these days. If I called these people "libertarian," I would be raising their drunken rantings to the status of a philosophy.
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