If you’ve never read The Man in the High Castle, you can, but (IMO) the Television series based on it is better. The story tells the tale of an alternate 60s-era reality in which the Axis won World War II, and America is divided between Germany and Japan. I barely recall the book, which is probably better if you’ve never seen the television adaptation, but in the latter, one plot line explores euthanasia, a reasonable track given what we know about the Nazis.
Lesser races are liquidated. The sick or injured are eaters who are eliminated. Even when they are the children or relatives of power or station. For the good of the Reich. You know where this is headed.
A Dutch Doctor liquidated, sorry, I meant, euthanized a 12-year-old boy last year.
The law in the Netherlands was changed in 2024 to extend euthanasia to children under the age of 12 to allow them to “die with dignity” if there was no route to escape extremely severe pain or suffering.
Death with dignity isn’t a bad idea. Easing pain and suffering aren’t either. The issue is the government’s management of the terms. The slippery slope. But if government exists to protect our rights, how does it not get involved in the private act of discorporation with or without assistance?
This isn’t new ground around here. Some insist suicide is a sin, but there is no practical way, in a free society, to prevent it. Those who think you have a right to end your life probably disagree with the depopulation cult and its growing list of reasons to counsel assisted suicide, no matter what you call it. Canada, for example, isn’t offering kids as a matter of policy, but it’s on their radar. And if depression, PTSD, homelessness, or mental health are within reach or already on the table, what taboos are left to stop them from killing anyone for any reason?
There certainly isn’t a moral barrier, and absent that, the bureaucracy, especially one that has to pay the bills to keep them alive and comfortable, is going to lobby for legalized execution labeled as compassion or dignity.
After the Holocaust, infanticide was considered such an egregious human rights atrocity that some German doctors were hanged for having killed disabled babies. Their excuse? Killing these babies was compassionate and for the benefit of the babies as well as their parents and the Reich. (See, for example, the story of Baby Knauer, as reported by Robert Jay Lifton in The Nazi Doctors.)
That defense didn’t fly. But it might these days, as Dutch doctors do the same thing and it is depicted benignly as “death with dignity.”
Dutch teenagers have also been euthanized over the years, including some with mental illnesses.
Beyond the Netherlands, several children have been euthanized in Belgium in recent years, including a nine- and an eleven-year-old, as well as a 17-year-old and 16-year-old girl with brain cancer who was put into a 36-hour coma by doctors so she could be examined prior to donating her organs.
I suppose you could skip all that and just run the car in the garage with the windows open, but then you have to ask if the death with dignity folks are going to argue that not everyone has a car or a garage, and that’s just a white thing or evidence of colonialist discrimination. I would love to see the argument for a car in every garage, which means a garage on every whatever, just in case someone wanted to die in one from carbon monoxide poisoning.
But how do you balance that against the fear of suicide clusters among kids when one of their peers shuffles off their mortal coil? Isn’t preventing that a public good that elevates to the level of a state interest? Sure, it is founded on the idea that suicide is a sin, but preventing kids from doing dangerous and reckless things is so important that we have laws to prevent it (unless they want to take dangerous hormones or get their genitals mutilated).
Which, by the way, is where I was leading with all of this. We’ve shared stories where someone was in so much chronic pain after a gender-bending surgery that they wanted medically-assisted dying. Add to that the depression of living with the lie they were sold, a body incapable of sexual feeling, and you’ve got a surgical profit mill feeding the ex-post-facto abortion industry doing business as assisted suicide.
But it’s all for the good of the Reich, so shut up already.
