Comments on Creative Minority Report: Assisted Suicide: Not Just for the Sick

Can I just point out that people from Holland are ...

2010-03-15T13:03:30.701-04:00

Can I just point out that people from Holland are not "Hollanders" or "Hollandites", they are the Dutch?

For an old person to resign him or her self to a p...

2010-03-14T11:02:50.102-04:00

For an old person to resign him or her self to a preference for death is surely symptomatic of a problem, does no one see that? How many of us regularly visit our elders or hold them in esteem? If we honoured or father and our mother in their old age for all they suffered to bring us into existence and help us get started on our own life's journey, would they not want to continue being in our theatre as wisdom providing spectators?

Crap, that was Bill C-384 - stress on the EIGHT FO...

2010-03-14T00:36:15.822-05:00

Crap, that was Bill C-384 - stress on the EIGHT FOUR. s-m-r-t.

I just learned of this last year, but Canada is fa...

2010-03-14T00:34:25.092-05:00

I just learned of this last year, but Canada is facing a similar detrimental ruling with Bill C-348... and I can't say where we are on it's decision either. There's more at LifeSiteNews .

There has been hardly any coverage that I know of, especially in local news stations, of this terrible ruling. Even talking with secular friends, you have to spell-out-the-consequences before they realize what it entails. Although I suppose it's more 'real' to myself, having family working in healthcare (could you imagine? 'murder or get fired')...

PLEASE, if anyone can, support our Euthanasia Prevention Coalition! http://www.epcc.ca/

Who "consider their lives complete." Right. Like ...

2010-03-13T11:44:24.703-05:00

Who "consider their lives complete."

Right.
Like those who have themselves mutilated because they "consider their families complete."

I know it's incendiary, and probably off-topic, but the more I think about it the less off it seems to me. If it's okay to prevent children from being conceived, then prevent them from being born, then off them years later when they stop producing...
Either life is valuable or it's NOT.

Why stop at 70? This is really sad. Not surprisin...

2010-03-13T00:23:17.874-05:00

Why stop at 70?

This is really sad. Not surprising but sad.

Just imagine the potential problems with this. The forced euthanasias. And what if someone wants to kill someone over 70? It would be easy to set it up as suicide.

Thank you, drive though... oh wait. We should have...

2010-03-12T16:40:43.050-05:00

Thank you, drive though... oh wait. We should have thought this though a bit better. Anybody want an '82 Impala?

I am sorry, the who subject is so surreal, sad and stupid that I can't figure out what else to do besides joke about it.

Hear Hear Patty! Clanging gongs do little to spre...

2010-03-12T12:38:58.907-05:00

Hear Hear Patty!

Clanging gongs do little to spread the Good News. We should have compassion for a culture that is destroying itself when it is taking human lives with it. I'm sorry, but we need to have outrage for this. If we cannot, then we are not pro-life, merely anti-abortion.

If this becomes legal, we all know that it is not just the willing that will be going to their deaths. How many elderly will be pressured into it, either explicitly or implicitly? It will become a social pressure to "relieve your loved ones of the burden."

Many of the comments so far have shown an alarming lack of Christianity. Yeah, we might not be surprized that Holland is doing this. We might indulge in a bit of shadenfreude at the thought of a culture of death killing itself off. But these are human lives. All the pro-life posturing in the world will not make any difference if we are the priest who walks by the man dying by the side of the road.

You have to be 70? I can't believe a country as pr...

2010-03-12T12:05:44.225-05:00

You have to be 70? I can't believe a country as progressive and open-minded as Holland would engage in such blatant age discrimination. What is this world coming to?

Craig and Rom, you're both off. Craig for your ob...

2010-03-12T10:49:41.374-05:00

Craig and Rom, you're both off. Craig for your obvious trollerisms, and Rom, let me caution you...No, its not like Hillary would like to paint it at all with that post. She's right for being critical of subjective morality, but she obviously is posting on points she's never looked into. Silent No More is a wonderful and healing ministry. And it takes the experiences of those who have lived the lies of the culture of death through the healing and conversion to a powerful witness for life. It's like saying that the men and women have little more to offer the pro life ministry than converts do to the Catholic Church. I heartily disagree with Hillary's post and your response. Was Augustine allowed to be remorseful of his past sins? Yes, and he used his literature to "cry into the microphone". For each of us, in the body of Christ, there are different means of ministry to help save the unborn. Just because it may not work for your "sensibilities" doesn't mean that it doesn't have an effect, even a positive one, on the pro-life movement.

Great link, rom! "Suck it up, sweetheart!" is the...

2010-03-12T10:21:49.896-05:00

Great link, rom!

"Suck it up, sweetheart!" is the best catch phrase for the pro-life movement I have ever heard.

This issue isn't even worth a single tear, IMHO, n...

2010-03-12T09:48:31.912-05:00

This issue isn't even worth a single tear, IMHO, no matter how many 13 year-olds post YouTube vids about it.

Indeed. That is to say, euthanasia and abortion are objective evils and has little to do with how much crying in the microphone we can do about it. In fact, crying in the microphone is a bad policy for the pro-life movement as this pro-lifer notes.

This issue isn't even worth a single tear, IMHO, n...

2010-03-12T07:39:41.788-05:00

This issue isn't even worth a single tear, IMHO, no matter how many 13 year-olds post YouTube vids about it.

Natural selection at work. Why fight a herd that ...

2010-03-12T00:35:31.332-05:00

Natural selection at work. Why fight a herd that wants to cull itself? Just a bunch of hedonistic oldsters in Birkenstocks, baked out of their minds. If they all decide to clock off at 70, that's so many less years spent corrupting the young, so bully to that.

But, I do salute their modern contributions to the global community. Like shampoo sinks. Wooden shoes. Track lighting.

Single tear.