Sep 19, '10 5:00 pm
Julia Gillard is “happy to discuss” a proposal by Greens leader, Bob Brown to reverse a Northern Territory legislation that prohibits euthanasia. But Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said it should not be treated as a pressing concern.
The Greens MP Robin Chapple introduced the private members bill which would allow West Australians over the age of 21 with a terminal illness and who are sound of mind, to ask a doctor to end their life.
Of course the Greens support euthanasia. People are the problem for environmentalists so the more who can be persuaded to kill themselves, the better. What I really don’t like about their message is the implication that people with terminal illnesses should consider themselves burdens who should ‘opt out’ to save everyone pain and suffering. It is not so much that they should be allowed to suicide, but that terminally ill people should be encouraged to suicide. Terminally ill people are being told they should ‘die with dignity’ when all it really means is one less patient the state-run medical system has to care for.
It bothers me that some consider it to be ‘care’ to kill. Giving it a pretty sounding name does not change what it is.
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