...pork.
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Murray complains that the law against assisted suicide is supported by a “religious minority” who hold to an outdated moral view that human life is inherently valuable and that children have a legitimate obligation to care for elderly parents.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
Hopefully her mother felt "trapped" after having this ingrate as a child.
That's not "Nazi" as one poster puts it. That would put a 1932 beginning of such selfish, self-centered behavior. That didn't start last century. That evil is as old as humanity.
It is not confined to age, gender, religion or anything else. It's confined to a mean, cold, selfish heart of a human being, made in our Creator's image, with free will.
In this case, she CHOSE evil.
A Dr. Josef Mengele fan no doubt.
Wonder if Jenni would take care of her "partner" if he came down with something unfortunate and debilitating. Or would he have to expect the old pillow over the face or the lethal dose slipped into his tea?
What a disgusting person.
...pork.
Then why is she waiting until she becomes "incapacitated" before doing it, why not do it now and save her poor mother from having to hear another peep out of her ungrateful brat of a daughter?!
yep.
"She lives partly in London in a basement flat and in Cheshire in a Peak District farmhouse - wuthering heights and wuthering depths. She has a partner, David, of twenty six years standing and two sons."
'Wonder if Jenni would take care of her "partner" if he came down with something unfortunate and debilitating. Or would he have to expect the old pillow over the face or the lethal dose slipped into his tea?'
Well, let's just say that her answer to the old Beatle song question: "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?" is not just "No," it's "Hell No!!!"
http://www.mp3lyrics.org/b/beatles/when-im-64/
Oh, I've seen that sort of thing. I won't dispute that. However, I haven't seen anyone here refer to caring for an (ill) loved one as being "trapped." That's the line that killed me. It's lower than low.
That was exactly what the Terri Schiavo case was about, and why so many wanted her to die before her time.
Actually it is true.
Enjoy, if you have a few hours to read through it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1373116/posts
Well, this example is especially sordid. I suppose that's why it hits home. Something similar happens whenever the subject of family or familial obligations comes up these days. People will rant and rave about what a "burden" (the usual word) marital obligations and children are: HOW DARE THEY TRY TO TIE ME DOWN! But they tend to get queasy if you propose butchering kids and eating them. There are limits, in other words, but they are limits to which our sensibilities soon grow inured unless they are restrained by the kind of moral principles most people used to profess.
You are a burden to me.
rabidralph"
You'd also be offending real libertarians like myself who understand and adhere to the original philosophy known by that name before it was hijacked by anarchists.
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