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Dying with dignity, a classic oxymoronic way lefties see things. Thread by wagglebee.

Veteran MSP Margo MacDonald plans to research clinics abroad which allow those with terminal illnesses to end their own lives.

The 64-year-old, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, recently told fellow MSPs that she should be allowed to bring about her own death....

MSP to research assisted suicide (Scotland)

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In the mid-sixties, we visited a gingerbread-type very benign and pleasant house in Germany. We were told at the time of the war it housed handicapped like the Pope's cousin. But not for long... They would go in the door and never be seen again. But it looked so nice sort of like death with dignity. Thread by wagglebee on the Pope and his perspective...

He found out that, as a 14-year-old boy, Joseph Ratzinger had a cousin born with Down Syndrome who was just a couple years younger.

In 1941, German "therapists" arrived at the boy's home and took him away -- possibly telling his parents of the new governmental regulations against mentally disabled children living at home.

Despite pleas from the boy's family, German officials took him away and he very likely became a victim of the genocide that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives during the war.

"This was Joseph Ratzinger's first experience of a murderous philosophy that asserts that some people are disposable," Pursell explains....

Pope Benedict XVI Biographer: Nazi Genocide Shaped His Pro-Life Views

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