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Dying for some logic
With a bill to legalise assisted dying going through The Lords, the anti choice lobby were out in force complete with shrill exaggeration, bad poems and irrelevant personal anecdotes. Their premise is that anything which removed the likelihood of anybody being prosecuted for assisting someone who chose to end their own life - and requested them to assist - will lead inevitably to anyone with a disability being exterminated. This not being a Dalek society [yet] I'm at a loss to understand the illogicality of this reasoning. With some it seems to be that they want the protective feeling that they won't be allowed to commit suicide, as if that somehow gave them more status, more importance. Others seem fearful that their loved ones [!] will immediately want to top them if given half a chance, which does make one wonder about their family life and relationships, but is no argument why the rest of us have to be restricted because of it. Others claim they would not be here now if the law had been in place twenty years ago, as if suicide is only possible if a law says it can happen. If nothing else legailes assisted suicide would reduce the numbers who every year throw themselves in front of trains, trucks and buses - there's no reason why the drivers of these should be traumatised as the randomly chosen instruments of suicide. It should be a much more civilised and dignified affair, which is all that the movers of this measure are aiming at, but the opposition, always shrill and loud and composed of a mixture of the terminally ill, the disabled and the terminally stupid religionistas who always think they have the right to dictate their absurd ideas of humans being special to the rest of us, who know we're just another species and one, moreover, due for extinction any decade now. I'm all in favour of suicide religions, which seem to me to be an eminently self-selecting method for gene removal from the pool of unviables. With planet Earth groaning under the combined weight and consumption of homo sapiens, suicide could be seen as a selfless act on behalf of all other species and the ecosystem. Our very fecundity [and liking for sex without responsibility] is our undoing, along with conquering diseases which once kept our numbers under control. Now the only limit on population growth is war, which is a popular pastime for increasing numbers of overcrowded humanity.
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http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Euthanasiaphysicianassistedsuicide
| http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1237
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