Suicide kits as Christmas presents?
What happened to being happy to be alive? What’s with making it seem worthless and useless to be old? “Oh, I hear you’re 70 now. Here’s a special pill for you.” Good grief!
Michael Cook, BioEdge.org
Australian euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke is a busy man in the frantic days before the holiday season begins. He caused outrage this week when he claimed at a seminar on how to kill oneself that elderly couples were buying each other suicide kits as Christmas presents. As he anticipated, his remarks sparked angry responses from Christian and pro-life groups. “A pill to kill yourself and your loved one as a Christmas present is absolutely reprehensible,” said Graham Preston, of the Queensland branch of Right to Life Australia.
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If George Bailey were alive today, his angel, Clarence, would probably help him by giving him a pill or a shot, instead of helping him see that he had “A Wonderful Life.”
Nice one, Jennifer!