Maggie's Farm

Re: New Zealand votes to Legalize Euthanasia

The title of this story is completely wrong; New Zealand didn't legalize euthanasia. The author however, gave the misleading title on purpose, as a political maneuver. This guy, Rick Moran, has a blog called "Right Wing Nuthouse". On his blog, Mr. Moran asks a question: How far should legal protections for gays be extended?" He's asking his readers to assume that gays are "good" and that HIV is good, and that society should be forced to support homosexual activity. Men who engage in anal intercourse currently receive free medicine. If the public doesn't support sexual license, then they are right-wing extremists! Haters who can't be trusted to make decisions.
They want to kill everybody. http://rightwingnuthouse.com/

Mr. Moran and his friends are paid to make sure that the pharmaceutical companies get their money. Dead people don't take medicine; but old sick people, and people with AIDS, need a lot of medicine. Hundreds of billions of dollars worth. Trillions, if you count hospitals and nursing homes. That's enough money to buy journalists, and to convince the public that nobody should ever die, as long as there's one more medicine, or one more heart surgery, or one more Medicare billing code. The government is heroically trying to save people! In Australia, hospitals search the Aborigine population for anybody who could possible qualify for anything. Cornea surgery, high blood sugar, it doesn't matter, because those Aborigines are worth billions of dollars in billing codes. Quite often, a five thousand dollar nuclear cardiac test is required to see if the poor Aborigine is eating enough fiber. It's all about the money. That's why Rick Moran says that when Congress passes Bills, they are finally "accomplishing something." Making more laws is not an accomplishment, voters were never consulted. And sitting in a chair while looking at a piece of paper is not an accomplishment, either. Governments and old people both want taxpayers to believe that "looking" is "working." It's not. Many millions of elderly and government and military people wish to be seen as productive members of society; rather than the tax parasites that they really are. But if New Zealand had a ten percent tax rate, then the medical industry couldn't rip-off the taxpayers anymore. Money is the real issue. In my view, we should force all doctors, hospitals, and drug companies to publish prices, and make them compete. And allow persons who wish to die the freedom to do that. The government doesn't have the right to take money away from young people, and give it to old people. That's pure theft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX0iFV6zhEE

I'm saying that voluntary euthanasia and mandatory euthanasia are both necessary. Voluntary euthanasia is for anyone who wishes to die, for any reason. I would restrict it to persons over the age of forty, who are willing to sit through three interviews. If a sane old couple is ready to go, then let them. And for persons who have become a burden on society, there is no other choice. It's illegal to take money away from a working man, and spend it on another person. Charity is a private affair, not a government enterprise. That's why we now have sixty dollar an hour nurses; and three hundred dollar an hour doctors. If a person becomes permanently disabled through age, or an accident, or an illness, that means its time to release them from their earthly bonds. Keeping invalids in bed at the expense of strangers is immoral. I wouldn't pay for your care, and I wouldn't expect you to pay for mine. What people don't realize is that compassionately ending the life a person or infant who is suffering is an act of kindness. It's the nicest thing that we can do. And the second nicest thing that we can do is protect families from the horror and expense of taking care of an old parent, or a retarded child. We have an ethical responsibility to remove non-functioning individuals from society. Pretty soon there won't be any more nursing homes, or hospice. Just a quick trip to the crematorium. And there's nothing wrong with that. Dying is natural, everybody does it.