DO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO DIE?
Of course many Canadians think so. It's about choice, they say.But is it?
Should a depressed teenager girl who has just been dumped by her boyfriend and no longer wants to live have the 'choice' to doctor assisted suicide?
Most would say no.
Then the issue no longer is one of choice. It's about an empirical standard of what good quality of life is. Hence, pop culture agrees that a sick elderly person does not have a good standard or quality of life and should be 'allowed' to terminate their own life.
But once society has an empirical standard of what a good 'quality of life' is and we establish choice is not really the issue, how long is it to when elderly people who society believes have a poor quality of life but who want to live should have pressure on them to die?
What if they do not want to die but are a strain on the socialist medical system?
What if they are no longer productive and are deemed a burden on their families?
What then of people who have Down's Syndrome, the blind or infirmed?
Once we establish that the issue is not one of choice but one of society trying to establish who has a desirable 'quality of life' we can quickly see where the rabbit hole leads.
I am not surprised these beliefs are held most strongly among people with university degrees.
And much like every 'progressive' idea modern secular society chooses because 'Thursday is better than Wednesday 'cause it comes next', this will come to fruition.
But do not worry. When the time comes...you'll most likely be for it too.
posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 11:10 AM
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