New Hampshire is taking another shot at state-supervised suicide (HB 254), and I admit to not having paid nearly enough attention this time around. It is true that we can’t cover every bill or focus on what may be important to you or your group, but I’ve written extensively on the pitfalls of what the Euphamists call end-of-life care or end-of-life options.
Not to be too particular, but there is only one option at the end of life. Death. Sugarcoating your conveyor belt by giving it some other name to justify shuffling people off their mortal coil is suspicious. Even given the best of intentions – imminent death during which the individual experiences unbearable pain – government involvement in assisted suicide should be viewed as suspect.
The people most likely to support these measures and their inevitable expansion are almost all depopulationists. They think there are too many people and that we are killing the planet. They also consistently support state-managed cradle-to-grave healthcare, which – as we’ve seen in Canada – encourages bureaucrats to cut costs by delaying or denying care or services while making MAiD available instead. That’s Medical Assistance in Dying – also known as euthanasia.
Convincing you it was your idea after they denied you any other alternatives (or made the hoops too high to jump through) is a lot more like murder than end-of-life care. Manslaughter at the very least. No, it’s just good, compassionate practice. (Related: Night Cap: Assisted Suicide Will Start Out Well-Meaning, Then Gradually Revert To its Eugenic Roots).
Canada is the poster child for these abuses, but it’s not the only culprit. Other nations have experimented with ways to get their citizens to off themselves, as have a handful of US states. Several offer death tourism, including Vermont, which tells me that New Hampshire does not need it even if you could prove it would not degenerate into the sort of abuse we’ve seen elsewhere.
The horror stories Canada’s euthanasia regime has generated — the Paralympian who was offered MAiD by a government employee when she asked for a wheelchair ramp, the disabled woman living on welfare who opted for MAiD because she could not secure adequate housing, the cancer patient who chose to kill himself because he could not access chemotherapy in time — have become so commonplace that they have blunted our sense of decency, of what is the minimum we owe to our fellow citizens. Meekly, we have accepted that such horrors, and many more unreported ones, are part and parcel of Canadian society.
We have reported on stories where the COVID-19 vaccine injured (and that’s a conspiracy theory) were recommended MAiD.
US States like Hawaii and Colorado have tried to shorten the time between the discussion and the death (as short as 48 hours). In Oregon nearly 80% of those who choose assisted suicide are government assistance.
Canada, our poster child, has considered the service for drug addicts, the poor, the mentally challenged, and even children. Add concerns about using assisted dying to address shortages in organ donations, and you’ve set yourself up for all sorts of trouble. Remember, the ruling and political classes will always find a way to give your death more meaning than your life and happily deny you the latter in the name of good government (health care, compassion, etc.).
These same advocates will insist, much like they do with Communism, that no one else did it right, but we will this time. We know the secret. No. No, you don’t. You can’t because the problems are the same. Human beings will mess it up. It is in their nature to do so. As is the urge to collect and abuse power.
New Hampshire can’t even take care of children without them getting misplaced, abused, sexually assaulted, or murdered. I think you’d have to be out of your f**king mind to let them oversee “assisted” suicide.
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Note: If you thought the headline referred to Roberta Flack, no, but given that she recently passed away at 88, I can see why. Flack was a trained classical pianist who also sang R&B and Jazz. She is best known for her cover of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Feel Like Makin’ Love, and Killing Me Softly With His Song. Rest In Peace.
