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Some things, progressive things, should be a no-brainer for Catholics. No abortion. No assisted suicide. Okay, there are a whole bunch of other things like sodomy, gay marriage, and we could go deep on the topic, but I’d like to try to stay on topic, and not just because I’m Catholic. Non-practicing. I bailed on … Read more
In May of 2025, I dropped my first piece on the rising tide of assisted suicide in the United Kingdom. A bill had been proposed to legalize the practice of physician-assisted death (or variations of the same) with the appropriate amount of government “oversight.” Appropriate here means the health system is run by the government, … Read more
As if the new abortion laws do not sicken a sane person with a modicum of respect for life, the passed or planned euthanasia laws around the world will make you skip a meal. You have to really question the moral upbringing of a person who has so little concern for life that they are … Read more
If you wanted to know what I thought about assisted Suicide, medically assisted dying (MAiD), or any aspect of government-managed consent to death, it’s easy. I don’t care how compassionate you think you are; it is not the sort of authority you want them to have. Curious contradictions abound as well. Most of the people … Read more
And because they can. The American Republic is sometimes sold as 50 laboratories, each of which can try its own things as long as it doesn’t trample on the natural rights the Federal Government was created to protect. Yeah, I know. Anyway, we can see disasters in real time, and we still have to explain … Read more
If you want to “Thelma and Louise it” (the end of the movie, not all the stuff before that), there’s not much to stop you, and I mean that metaphorically. Though I suppose you could do a reenactment, which – aside from ruining a perfectly good 1966 Ford Thunderbird – would bring out the advocates … Read more
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 … Read more
What happens when a country starts offering death before treatment? In this powerful episode of The Ever-Living Podcast, Xindi and Jason sit down with Amanda Achtman, founder of Dying To Meet You, to unpack the shocking reality of Canada’s expanding euthanasia system known as MAID (“Medical Assistance in Dying”). Amanda explains how Canada became what … Read more
Today on the Morning Update, if you might be perceived as a burden, and the government gets to decide what that means, you might not be long for this world. Today’s example comes from Vancouver, where the caring health care professionals asked a priest with a broken hip if he’d like to commit suicide. 00:00 … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, if you follow the progressive dots from exit taxes to we won’t let you leave, and the dots leading from compassionate calls for assisted suicide to systemic use of suicide as economic and social engineering, what happens when those paths converge? Transcript below Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if … Read more
Christianity Today recently published an article by Kristy Etheridge that was very critical of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, something that would not be surprising, given the magazine’s evangelical Christian outlook on issues. The article—again, not surprisingly—dealt mostly with how many Christian groups, and especially the Roman Catholic Church, have spoken out against Canada’s program and … Read more
You cannot make these stories up. When you hear them, you shake your head in disbelief, do some fact-checking, and shake your head even harder. It is like the 20,000 refugees brought to America after the Joe Biden debacle of a pull-out in Afghanistan. Biden and his lying flunky Mayorkas assured us that every one … Read more
France is one of those Western-style democracies that, after being liberated from the Nazis, began a long, slow decline toward the very tyranny they had escaped. A sort of Neo-monarchy with a protected political class capable of stopping populist uprising (ask Marine Le Pen about that), and increasingly like the one they shirked off during … Read more
Governments have been killing their own people for their own advantage since there have been “governments” (see also: Kane and Able). From criminals to inconvenient truth tellers, power has a way of wanting to protect its own ass, so when the proglodytes started directing their abundance of “empathy” and “compassion” toward the chronically ill, everyone’s … Read more
I’m not sure how many readers remember Heavy Metal (the cartoon art mag, not the music). They released an eponymously named movie in 1981, which I recall liking. In one scene, someone in charge of something tells the hero, Den, that he “must steal the Loc-Nar from the Queen in order to save Katherine.” I … Read more
It’s a Saturday morning special edition (not at all as intimidating as a Saturday Night Special), but I had this on my mind and needed to let it loose. Is Colorado the new Canada when it comes to medical suicide? Sources: https://www.liveaction.org/news/woman-struggling-anorexia-assisted-suicide https://cdphe.colorado.gov/center-for-health-and-environmental-data/registries-and-vital-statistics/medical-aid-in-dying https://granitegrok.com/national/2025/04/killing-babies-is-cheaper-than-birthing-them https://granitegrok.com/blog/2024/06/slippery-slope-assisted-suicide-is-always-cheaper-than-treatment https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-kBXgAFzHl6kcfsvtLHfOQ94Unk9mDa-/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S3yC6qkS15rywRVUhV_J6CuD3202k2nZ/view Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not … Read more
Those familiar with the slippery slope series have kept up with my years of observation and commentary on the question of state-sanctioned assisted suicide. At its simplest, the only obligation a state might have is to ensure contracts with health care and insurers are honored in these circumstances. The bills are paid and survivors get … Read more
Five weeks ago, over on the Substack, I explored how some experts in the UK were uncomfortable about the details of an assisted suicide bill in the House of Commons. Unlike a lot of experts over here, who may see this as a ticket to more revenue, the Royal College of Psychiatrists thought there needed … Read more
The UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists (RC Psych) has taken an unusual position on an Assisted Dying Bill before parliament. Unlike many in the US and Canada, the RC Psych has chosen to be cautiously neutral while disagreeing with politicians and advocates that this is the ultimate expression of empathy. When people are miserable, particularly … Read more
Thursday, March 20th, the House will be voting on HB 254, which would legalize physician-assisted suicide for those facing an illness deemed likely to be terminal within six months by a physician. Last year, this bill passed in the House by the skin of its teeth — a mere two votes sent it to the Senate where it was ultimately defeated. To … Read more