If they insist on killing her, why can’t they put a bullet in her head?
With the Terry Schiavo case we have reached a point where the so-called “right to die” has been morphed politically into a “right to kill.” Leftists have long insisted that individuals who have outlived their usefullness be allowed to die with dignity. Now, it seems, the will of the patient is a mere trifle to be guessed at, and the new default is to guess thumbs down. No living will? Well, if she didn’t sign and date an affidavit clearly expressing her desire to be (annoyed sigh) kept alive, then she must want to die. It’s doubtful, however, that starvation would top her list of ways to peacefully be dispatched.
But if she wants to die, many are happy to oblige her; the euthanasia movement has its ardent adherers. If there’s a terminally ill patient somewhere—or someone whose pugilism career has been cut short, or a baby with a cleft palate—the movement will be there to make sure the poor dears snuff it without too much fuss. And ‘if they can’t do it themselves, we’ll just do it for them’ is their new motto.
It’s hard to imagine the kind of thinking it takes to convince yourself that starving someone to death is a compassionate idea. This doctor and that have been trotted out to assure us all that, contrary to conventional wisdom, starvation is a walk amongst the posies, that it happens every day—why, you may even know someone who has died, peacefully and with dignity, of starvation.
Meanwhile, the people in favor of starving this vulnerable woman to death would take tremendous joy in seeing you jailed for starving a dog (or declawing your cat, if you live in West Hollywood). They are the same people who raise the roof in hysteria whenever a death row prisoner’s sentence is carried out. They invent clever phrases like “partial-birth abortion” to desensitize us all to infanticide.
Now, these same people want to end the life of a woman because they deem her quality of life too low to be worth preserving. Their method is to withhold food and let the public believe they mercifully “pulled the plug” on a terminally ill patient, rather than opting for something a little more quick, more humane.
Of course, a bullet in the skull makes it look too much like what it is.
--Marc's Northern Interloper
But if she wants to die, many are happy to oblige her; the euthanasia movement has its ardent adherers. If there’s a terminally ill patient somewhere—or someone whose pugilism career has been cut short, or a baby with a cleft palate—the movement will be there to make sure the poor dears snuff it without too much fuss. And ‘if they can’t do it themselves, we’ll just do it for them’ is their new motto.
It’s hard to imagine the kind of thinking it takes to convince yourself that starving someone to death is a compassionate idea. This doctor and that have been trotted out to assure us all that, contrary to conventional wisdom, starvation is a walk amongst the posies, that it happens every day—why, you may even know someone who has died, peacefully and with dignity, of starvation.
Meanwhile, the people in favor of starving this vulnerable woman to death would take tremendous joy in seeing you jailed for starving a dog (or declawing your cat, if you live in West Hollywood). They are the same people who raise the roof in hysteria whenever a death row prisoner’s sentence is carried out. They invent clever phrases like “partial-birth abortion” to desensitize us all to infanticide.
Now, these same people want to end the life of a woman because they deem her quality of life too low to be worth preserving. Their method is to withhold food and let the public believe they mercifully “pulled the plug” on a terminally ill patient, rather than opting for something a little more quick, more humane.
Of course, a bullet in the skull makes it look too much like what it is.
--Marc's Northern Interloper
posted by Marc at
9:44 PM
1 Comments:
A well thought out post, my friend.
And actually, I believe (sadly) that she should be allowed to die. But I resent the liberal mantra that this death is 'painless, dignified and compassionate'.
My Father starved to death as the cancer took him. There was nothing dignified or compassionate about it.
In war, a terminal victim is often given a lethal dose of morphine to end his suffering and his life. I finally did this to Dad. I increased his morphine to the point where he was just not there.
The silence on the left on this part of the issue speaks volumes of their cowardice.
I hate these people with an ever-growing passion.
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