Euthanasia, Abortion and the Pros and Cons of Assisted Suicide

Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide

The news is that Vermont has passed an assisted suicide bill allowing patients to
choose death over what they deem to be an unbearable life with pain both physically and/or mentally. As many comments state “Hey, a person has a right to choose”. So what exactly are they choosing? They assume that all pain disappears with death and they know this how? No one has come back to tell us what exists on the other side for all we know we take our pain with us.

You know it all sounds reasonable, good, understandable to be able to choose when to die or when to have a baby or whatever. In the case of abortion you are not just dealing with yourself even though you tell yourself you are but you are dealing with a life form. Science has clarified that life begins at conception because DNA is present at the time of conception and DNA means life. In the case of assisted suicide then you only have yourself to answer to and oh doesn't it seem plausible that a person has a right to choose when he or she dies particularly if they are suffering from some debilitating disease. Unfortunately it doesn’t stop there. Somehow that little slippery slope always pops up somewhere.

Let’s take a look at the history of Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide.

Now we all know from history books that Socrates was forced to drink poison because those in power objected to his way of thinking. He drank hemlock, killing himself. I guess you could say it was his choice because his alternative wasn’t real pretty. If he hadn't drunk from the cup of death then the powers that be at the time would have killed him in what might have been a more horrendous manner.

1920 – a book by the title “Permitting the Destruction of Life not Worthy of Life” was written by the authors Alfred Hoche, MD, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Freiburg and Karl Binding, a professor of law from the University of Leipzig, argued that patients who ask for “death assistance” should under very carefully controlled conditions be able to obtain it from a physician, This book helped support involuntary euthanasia by Nazi Germany.

1935- The Euthanasia Society of England was formed to promote euthanasia

1939- Nazi, Germany. In October 1939 Hitler orders widespread “mercy killing” of the sick and disabled. Code named “Akton T4″ the Nazi euthanasia program to eliminate ”life unworthy of life” at first this was focused on newborns and very young children. It was quickly expanded to include adults.

In the early 1930's a number of prominent German academics and medical professionals were espousing the theory of “unworthy life”, a theory which advanced the notion that some lives were simply not worthy of living.

Dr. Ernst Rudin, who believed not only that these were lives not worth living, but that doctors had a responsibility to destroy such life and remove it from the general populations. The unapologetic Dr. Rudin began sterilization and extermination of the following flaws lest they reproduce and further contaminate the German gene pool; feeble-mindedness, Schizophrenia, manic depression or as it’s called today by-polar, epilepsy, hereditary blindness, deafness, physical deformities, Huntington’s disease and alcoholism.