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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Murray complains that the law against assisted suicide is supported by a “religious minority” who hold to an outdated moral view that human life is inherently valuable and that children have a legitimate obligation to care for elderly parents.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
"Trapped into caring for dependent parents." Oh, boy! Is this what we've come to? Or is this (hopefully) just one of those sick, sad, selfish swine, ready at the first inconvenience, to send the parents off, as long as their last will and testament is final and in their favor?
Trapped?!!!?
Everything one does in life is a choice! She's not being trapped!
Taking care of the dying is an honor. Even though a non-religious, I realized that it is a sacrament.
The only negative feelings I have had is the sorrow & frustration toward myself that I was not able to relieve distress, pain, discomfort better.
If she wishes to kill herself, well that IS her choice--although I might disagree with that choice.
However, to kill someone else who is no longer active enough to physically contribute to society is stupid. There is much that one contributes to ones family/friends verbally, emotionally, mentally. And if one is no longer capable of that, just ones presence is a contribution to understanding.
Good gravy! Isn't that what we're supposed to do? Work hard while we can, so that in our declining years we have the leisure to enjoy the fruits of our labor? If not monetarily, then thru the reciprocal care of our family?
And people who think like this woman does are supposed to be those who FEEL? I don't think so.
National socialism did not die with Hitler. To a large degree he embodied the spirit of his age--and ours.
maybe it is still called a Nazi, or Muslim...
The cult of Self.
Jenni Murray....you need help, desperately. But of course,
I wouldn't want to be "trapped"" into helping you,
so please go where you are inevitably headed to, right now.
It's very easy to do, and there will be more oxygen for
others, less c02, and waste without you metabolizing
about....
Don't be offended if by the original intent of the term you mean something like "classical liberal." Today's libertarians are, as you said, closer to anarchists than anything the Founding Fathers had in mind, just as today's liberals are closer to Stalin than the Founding Fathers, who were liberal in the classical sense.
These terms are usually referring to the contemporary definitions, unless they have been stipulated.
I do mean 'classic liberal' by that term. The word 'liberal' has been forfeited to the socialists, but while the word 'libertarian' is still in dispute I will continue to argue for its proper meaning.
If her mother had shared her philosophy, the world wouldn't be burdened by this ingrate.
As I said, drunken ravings.
Who is raving drunk again?
That's not what the story is saying...she's saying SHOULD SHE, THE DAUGHTER, become incapacitated, she wants to die. SHE doesn't want to be a burden to anyone.
YOU people are reading this story the way you want to read it, but you're wrong.
She's not saying she won't care for her mother...the suicide pact is for HER, so SHE won't be a burden on anybody.
I just knew it wouldn't be long before we would encounter an apologist for the viewpoint the article reflects. It's not just liberals. In fact, from following the threads on social issues here, I don't even think it's mostly liberals.
Very good. Thank you for the linked comments. I'm still drilling through it all! I'm surprised I missed this thread back in May 2005.
Are you that crazed that you can't even read something that you might not like? All I did was point out what the article REALLY said..I made NO social comment about it. NONE.
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