It is a Canadian twist on a Belgian horror I pointed out here last year. That was the case of Shanti De Corte, a young woman who, at the age of 17, had been caught up in the 2016 Brussels airport attack and had seen a number of her classmates die. Last year she opted to be ‘euthanised’. Alleged members of the cell who carried out the 2016 attack are still on trial in Belgium, but whether or not they are found guilty none can be given the death penalty. Because Europe, like lovely, liberal Canada, does not believe in the death penalty for criminals. Only for victims.”
The equally great Gemma Tognini had an excellent column in the Weekend Australian inspired by the communist A.C.T. government’s recently flagged intention to make ‘voluntary assisted suicide’ available to children as young as 14. Tognini sees the proposal as the most disturbing example of “a new kind of evil afoot in this nation” – one whose promoters target minors under sham auspices of ‘compassion.’ There almost seems to be a contest underway to see how far the assault on innocents can be taken before the limit is reached. But there is no limit and for that the pushers are not solely to blame. That’s because good people sometimes make peace with some portion of a bad idea. My only criticism of Tognini’s essay is its concession that at least adults are competent to commission their own homicide. They’re not. Those who choose ‘VAD’ act with a ‘moral’ authority never before conceded or ratified. They set an evil example for the young and an ethical trap for the unwary. For a murder curated by a suicidal adolescent is no more an enormity than one booked by a geriatric. It follows that banning the former means banning them all.
No 14-year-old, terminally ill or not, should be given the option to end their life. They should be loved to the end, leaving this earth knowing their life mattered and that the world will be less colourful without them.
The highlighed bit doesn’t make a helluva lotta sense.
If they’re not Terminally ill, then their end isn’t nigh, or even a coupla generations away.
Is Murray assuming they’ll commit suicide any way, but everyone’s so powerless to help, apart from loving them to the end.
There are no words C.L.
To think the Aztecs, et al, were stopped from human sacrifices and here we are in their non-Christian West!
The proposals now are for VAD to be available for non terminally people (like Canadian Miss De Corte) who just want to die. Tognini didn’t use the word “nigh.”
You’re confusing Tognini and Murray.
Tognini is simply saying all people deserve to be valued till the end.
Your ban at Dover’s will allow us to ‘get’ more of your wit and wisdom Ed Case?
Your ban at Dover’s will allow us to ‘get’ more of your wit and wisdom Ed Case?
So, NFA, you’re saying Ed Case not be posting here either??
No Fat Tony
Just a reflection on the quality of Ed Case’s posts!
Fox News’ Conservative Stance Belies Hidden Liberal Agenda
Survivor’s guilt. Very common. Terrible thing.
I always said those that supported euthanasia could never justify tut tutting about teen suicide.
They’ve moved on to now it’s cool for everyone who wants to be murdered.
No DIY though kids.
Unacceptable behaviour.
The proposals now are for VAD to be available for non terminally people (like Canadian Miss De Corte) who just want to die.
I get that.
Tognini didn’t use the word “nigh.”
His comment still doesn’t make sense.
Who’s going to be doing the valuing till the end?
A paid valuer?
The good thing is, the architects of these despicable laws will avoid euthanasia themselves. But it will be no solace for them as their agony and torment will be eternal at the hands of an angry God.
“a new kind of evil…
It can be masqueraded in novel ways, but evil now is the same evil of long ago and the time in between. Particularly bumping off the “unfit”, the medical establishment has been down this path before, i.e., the Eugenics era of early last century. In fact, there are quite a few similarities between current and Eugenics-era medical establishments. Concerning euthanasia, the difference now is that reps of the State don’t independently determine that someone should be snuffed out. Simply providing the choice and leaving it to the “to-be-snuffed-out” to make the final decision apparently absolves the medical establishment of all culpability.
The Logical Escalation of Wickedness
Or, the slippery slope Public Health inspired bans and manipuation galore of the last half century typically began with “but all we want is this small request” for the “greater good” of society that quickly turned into something far beyond the “small request”. Again, concerning euthanasia, even up to a few decades ago there was considerable resistance to the very idea of medically assisted dying (MAD). It began with a “service” offered to typically old folk with terminal diseases. Before you know it, it’s “offered” to the psychologically afflicted and now transposed to the young. Even more recently, we know how the “trans” stuff has been going.
The World Health Organization – medical HQ – is more than OK with all of this. There are folk that have pointed out decades ago that the contemporary medical establishment/Public Health, for all the good it does, now also presents a serious multi-dimensional danger to society. And this is but one manifestation of evil.
Your ban at Dover’s will allow us to ‘get’ more of your wit and wisdom Ed Case?
Who knows?
Your ban there hasn’t helped your commentary here, it’s still dull and flip crap.
Frank directions.
Pope urges world leaders to do more to tackle climate change.
So Long Tan… again.
Stan Grant to step down as Q+A host permanently and move on to other ABC roles.
Mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4
Could never happen again?
Don’t bet on it, especially in “progressive” places like Trudeau’s Canada and in Canberra; maybe not on the same scale, but then murder is still murder.
From TWIP
Also from TWIP
The logical escalation of wickedness. That’s quite chilling.
Mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany:
The Lutheran an d C atholic Churches raised objections, the policy was abandoned.
Those people saved very likely starved to death during the War or were incinerated alive.
Could never happen again?
Oliver W. Holmes of SCOTUS had ruled that a young woman could be legally sterilised without her consent with the comment:
3 Generations of Imbeciles are enough.
That was the inspiration for the Eugenics Policy of the 3rd Reich.
Holmes Ruling is still Law in the U.S., so presumably forced stetrilisations have been happening there for 96 years without comment.
Don’t bet on it, especially in “progressive” places like Trudeau’s Canada and in Canberra; maybe not on the same scale, but then murder is still murder.
Heard about the Liverpool Pathway?
Patients who are deemed goners are denied food and water and Nature is allowed to take it’s course.
That’s not so different to the [brief] German Policy of the Thirties, though some might argue it’a much crueler.
Turd Case
Evidence, please, that Aktion T-4 was only a short lived program.
No response will prove that you are again lying.
Cranky Frankie is pontificating again … as a Skeptical Atheist, I’m offended by his holier-than-thau attitude on climate change.
I’ve lately been visiting two geriatric wards at different hospitals, and a number of Nursing Homes (Residential Aged Care Facilities, the current term). What a waste of time, money, and resources a lot of ’em are. ….Old codgers out of their minds, dumped by relatives to die sometime. Many visited, and many not.
The staffs have all been very caring and considerate. The places are clean and well-maintained, with plenty of attention paid to the health needs of the residents. Some are up and about, while others are in bed 24/7.
90% are, quite literally, waiting to die. One old dear replied….. when I said “OK, see you later”…..”I hope it’s in heaven”. Another “I don’t want to be here too much longer”. This latter after he told me he was never going home.
I won’t go on, but it’s been rather eye-opening. Especially when looking into the financial side of it, since basically the nursing homes are draining the inheritances of the kids and grandkids by keeping the aimlessly-waiting-for-death oldies hanging on.
Anyhow…there’s no reason the Home operators shouldn’t be making a good quid out of it, I suppose. a quick back-of-envelope calculation is that whereas a funeral director lands $3000-$15,000 per customer, the nursing home gets about $100,000-$500,000 by dragging it out. Fantastic business model!
Any, or all of the VAD opponents own Nursing Homes d’ya reckon?
An ex-editor of The Courier-Mail wrote that it was a cause for celebration that Baby Boomers had no intention of going into nursing homes/institutions, to live out their last years “on the sidelines”, as is the fate of their parents. He didn’t touch on the possibility that the sons and daughters of Baby Boomers might have different ideas.
Is that smoke coming from those pants on fire?
Anthony Albanese gives extraordinary justification for his ‘Voice, Truth, Treaty’ concert T-shirt as he unleashes on ‘desperate’ critics who called him out in interview with Shoalhaven’s Power FM
Anthony Albanese gives extraordinary justification for his ‘Voice, Truth, Treaty’ concert T-shirt as he unleashes on ‘desperate’ critics who called him out in interview with Shoalhaven’s Power FM (msn.com)
That’s the link
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/anthony-albanese-gives-extraordinary-justification-for-his-voice-truth-treaty-concert-t-shirt-as-he-unleashes-on-desperate-critics-who-called-him-out-in-interview-with-shoalhaven-s-power-fm/ar-AA1ej6AJ?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=b535bf9c8d824a7fe0afd32b024e35d5&ei=6
A shorter link 🙂
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12333639/Anthony-Albanese-desperate-critics-Voice-Treaty-Truth-T-shirt.html
Read Bruce Lehrmann’s extraordinary swipe at Brittany Higgins’ leaked book – after Daily Mail revealed how she compared herself to Tibetan monks who set themselves on fire
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12333505/Read-Bruce-Lehrmanns-extraordinary-swipe-Brittany-Higgins-leaked-book-Daily-Mail-revealed-compared-Tibetan-monks-set-fire.html
Hostile ABC crowd. Quelle surprise!
Barnaby Joyce faces boos as he speaks out on ABC’s Q+A show about why he opposes the Indigenous Voice To Parliament to a hostile ABC crowd
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12331585/Barnaby-Joyce-faces-boos-speaks-ABCs-Q-opposes-Indigenous-Voice-Parliament-hostile-ABC-crowd.html