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Should people be denied ‘choices’ at the end-of-life? : Comments
By Paul Russell, published 29/1/2016When parts of the Australian media recently applauded the double suicide of a well-travelled, well-educated Melbourne couple who were not ill but simply growing old, I think we all need to stop and wonder where this is all going.
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We are repealing age-old prohibitions every day, for the benefit of everyone: it's called progress. And whatever the 'laws of nature' are in this respect, it's hard to see how they support keeping the infirm and suffering aged alive. You might want to check that with your local pride of lions or mob of kangaroos.
Arguments like these are invariably made out of religious convictions. What makes them hypocritical and pernicious is that the religious convictions are then hidden beneath a veneer of plausible-sounding justifications like this.