Cheapening Life

“You shall not murder.    Exodus 20:13

I’ve written several articles against socially sanctioned murder, a.k.a. abortion and assisted suicide.  People with an agenda have taken away the horror of it with prettier words; healthcare, medical procedure, death with dignity.  But let’s not play with words.  No matter how someone might dress it up, murder is murder.

Even when you murder yourself.

I’ve seen two articles recently that show life continues to be cheapened.  First, Twelve terminally ill New Jersey residents have legally committed suicide.

Six men and six women died by assisted suicide in New Jersey in 2019 after the state passed a l was allowing it.  Patients were between the ages of 50 and 93.  Nine of them had cancer and three had neurodegenerative conditions. 

It’s odd, given that assisted suicide is legal, that one family went through 40 physicians before they could find someone to assist in a family member’s suicide.  A physician’s oath includes something like, “First, do no harm.”  Apparently, those 40 saw more harm in helping a patient kill herself than letting her live longer.

OK…maybe some were afraid of potential liabilities, but I think your average person, doctor or not, instinctually knows it’s wrong.  Why else would passing such a law take so much effort, so many years?

And now for the irony.  One individual said, “Since the law took effect, I have felt free to enjoy the rest of my life without worrying about needlessly suffering in agony when it ends.  For the last year up until the COVID-19 pandemic hit, I have been traveling with my family and enjoying outdoor activities like camping.”

I submit she bought into the propaganda and decided to murder herself when days were still pretty good.  And I call it propaganda, because I believe that when the deed is done, no one feels so good about it.

In my 12/4/16 article, MAN IN THE NETHERLANDS EUTHANISED DUE TO HIS ALCOHOL ADDICTION, I quoted the deceased’s brother after it was all over.  You see, they’d had a big going away party for the man, which ended with his assisted suicide.  His brother said, ““If it was not so terrible, it would have been nice…”

In other words, no one truly understood what they were doing until it was over and reality hit.  They bought into a lie that portrayed itself as valuing life when it actually devalued it!

And now we have an article dated 8/9 that Sweden may be approaching herd immunity for COVID-19.  Sweden had no lock downs.  They kept everything open, including the schools, and now show a steady decline is cases and deaths while their economy has not taken the hit most European nations have.

There’s just one little problem here…

There was, however, catastrophe in care homes, as there was in several other nations such as Britain, Canada and Spain, which reflects years of neglect for a fragmented sector staffed by underpaid workers often flitting between different places to make ends meet.

An official inquiry found almost half of Sweden’s Covid-19 deaths by end of June took place in elderly care homes concentrated in 40 of the country’s 290 municipalities.

Horrifically, it seems many old people were simply given morphine and left to die rather than taken to hospital for fear of overloading intensive care wards. 

Um…

As noted above, it may have been more a matter of staffs being uncommitted to a particular nursing home or patients than government policy, but I’m betting the owners knew what was going and either let it happen or instigated it.

As the saying goes – follow the money.

However it happened, the theme is the same; life has been cheapened!  There are countless stories of young women who carry a horrible guilt their whole lives after having an abortion.  I have read at least two stories where assisted suicide or euthanasia where the people obviously regretted this course of action but went through with it out of sheer momentum.

Life is a gift from God.  Yes, it involves pain and suffering, but that isn’t how God made it.  It was Adam and Eve and humanity that continue to sin and degrade the quality of life God gave.  We must still value that life and not cheapen it by throwing it away before it is truly over!