The Culture of Death © is alive and well, that's for sure!
A controversial system of mobile euthanasia units that will travel around the country to respond to the wishes of sick people who wish to end their lives has been launched in the Netherlands.
The scheme, which started on Thursday , will send teams of specially trained doctors and nurses to the homes of people whose own doctors have refused to carry out patients' requests to end their lives.
The launch of the so-called Levenseinde, or "Life End", house-call units – whose services are being offered to Dutch citizens free of charge – coincides with the opening of a clinic of the same name in The Hague, which will take patients with incurable illnesses as well as others who do not want to die at home.
What a world we live in. We can order food to be brought our homes; we can order just about any product we want and have it hand delivered to us...now we can place a call or send an email, and be assisted to die! And you know, there are many people who have diseases and disorders that render them unable to work, and therefore to be "productive" members of given societies that offer way too many entitlement programs. I find it totally ironic that these societies have found a surreal way to manage this- the sick and disabled are given the "Option" to go off and just...die. It's a win win for all right? Slowly the mindset is changing- as long as you're healthy and working (and paying taxes) you're a valuable member of society. The moment or two after you get too sick to continue working, you become a burden to society. So "modern" times call for modern solutions. Sick people have a duty to die.
It used to be, the younger people would take care of their elder parents- it was expected and an honor to do so. Now the younger people consider this honor to be a duty, a chore, an inconvenience. A wise person once told me what goes around will always come around.
ReplyDeleteAn aunt moved in to my Grandmother's home to take care of her- as she went into real old age. Aunt Mary's family was ticked off- and some of her kids refused to take to her for years after this. Mary lived with my Grandma for 4 years; Mary actually died before Grammy did...my other aunts and Mother put her in a nursing home and she died three weeks later. I firmly believe we should do onto our parents what they did for us- take care of them in the inform years.
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