Posted on 04/12/2024 8:54:46 AM PDT by xoxox
The president of Belgium’s largest health care fund has promoted euthanasia as a solution for the country’s aging population problem.
Luc Van Gorp, head of Christian Mutuality (CM), pointed out that the number of people over 80 in Belgium will double up to 1.2 million by 2050, putting enormous financial pressure on the health care system and insurance companies.
According to De Specialist, Van Gorp said the problem cannot be solved with more money and called for “a radically different approach.”
“Doctors and other health professionals are now doing their utmost to make everyone live longer, but for what purpose? Living longer is not an end in itself, is it? It must first of all be about the question: how long can I live with quality [of life].”
“What about the category of older people who receive maximum care, but who still do not have the quality of life they want? That question is asked far too little,” he stated.
Van Gorp said that in addition to the current euthanasia law, there “should also be a softer form for people who feel that their lives are complete,” adding that “Many elderly people are tired of life.”
Instead of calling the process suicide, which has negative connotations, he “would rather call it: giving life back.”
“I know it is sensitive, but we really have to dare to have that debate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
File under, “Great Apostacy.”
No, that was ‘Solyent Green’.
“We need to have a conversation” is Progspeak for “I want to kill you.”
Gorp looks like he himself is older than dirt. Maybe he should suck a shotgun himself and show his fellow tired smellies how suicide is done.
“instead of blowing their brains out or jumping off a building or taking 500 people with him/her who happen to be on an airliner with him/her.”
False dilemma fallacy. It isn’t either/or.
And regarding depression, it can be treated.
EXACTLY what I’ve been thinking. Well said.
I think one example is “kids”, now adults, NEED money and wish mom and dad would hurry up and just go!!!
Look at Manny......the guy that stabbed his beautiful mother 70+ times just because she got on his nerves.
And Manny was just about to graduate from 4 years of Medical School.
False dilemma fallacy. It isn’t either/or.
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No Sir. Not false. Many knowledgeable people think the pilot of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 committed suicide and old folks blow their brains out all the time.
I’m not saying the pilot did commit suicide. I don’t know. But, what if he did and your family or mine was on that plane?
The issue of helping old folks pass is a serious issue for serious minded, common sense people with a minimum IQ.
He needs to go first.
ah that’s right- thanks
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