Euthanasia for Others but not for Activist

[WanderAimlessly]

The hypocracy of the Culture of Perversion continues. Again from LifeSiteNews.com:

Euthanasia Activist Gives up Starvation Death Effort as Too Painful and “Undignified”

BRISTOL, August 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Kelly Taylor, a 28-year-old woman who is not terminally ill, has ended her attempt to starve herself to death after 19 days because of the pain of the effects of starvation

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I guess it is OK to forcibly starve someone like Terry, but not yourself if you are an activist.

PF

 

[BlindSheep]

She said her reason for wanting to die was that, as a disabled person, she could no longer make a “contribution” to society.

This is sad.
And tell me, why is a woman obviously suffering from severe depression and openly attempting suicide not institutionalized? It seems like once again the liberals have normalized mental illness.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

BlindSheep:

This is sad.
And tell me, why is a woman obviously suffering from severe depression and openly attempting suicide not institutionalized? It seems like once again the liberals have normalized mental illness.

People with mental illness are not necessarily better off “institutionalized” as if they need to be kept off the streets. In this case, I share your wonder, and wonder what her husband thought of all of this.

However there are some important things I think we have learned from this story:

Mrs. Taylor claimed that she had chosen self-starvation as the only method of suicide that would not leave her husband Richard liable for prosecution. Nevertheless, after 19 days, she said, “It has become too uncomfortable and I would not wish what I have been going through on my worst enemy.”

Question 1: What better testimony against the “this is painless” faction can we get than that? The woman wants to die, but dying the way we starved Terry hurts too much.

Taylor suffers from a congenital heart condition known as Eisenmenger Syndrome which, despite being labeled so by news media, is not a terminal condition. It does, however, reduce her mobility and leaves her dependent upon oxygen. She said her reason for wanting to die was that, as a disabled person, she could no longer make a “contribution” to society.

She is right now making an active contribution to society, even by her own attempt on her life. She speaks through experience what volumes of theory could never fully convey; as a person who has tried it, this is not a dignified and painless way to die, period.

At a press conference, Mrs. Taylor said, “I feel disappointed in myself. I really wanted to die and that seemed to be my only option. I regret that I have to stop what I am doing because I still want to die. But starvation, as it turns out, is very undignified.”

Unless Mrs. Taylor is a pro-life plant, then again we have the best testimony around against what happened to Terri. By bringing this wisdom to others, maybe some will be saved from a forced starvation death, thus making Taylor’s life worth something. I wish I had her email address so I could thank her for her insights on this kind of death, and reassure her that God could have many more things in store for her, not all necessarily “negative” in nature.

Alan