Euthanasia — "There Will Be Casualties"

And plenty of them if the people buy into the euthanasia supporters' twisted arguments; if the society embraces the implied "right to die", instead of standing up for the right to life. Check out this Mercator net article by Michael Cook:

Australian euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke loves publicity. But whenever he opens his mouth, even the most progressive journalists avert their eyes in squeamish embarrassment. This week’s gaffe was to defend his barely legal promotion of a suicide drug for the elderly and terminally ill. It turns out that nearly two-thirds of the Australians who died after quaffing Nembutal – at least 51 over the past 10 years -- were under 60, and quite a few were in the 20s and 30s. This suggests that mental illness or depression, not unbearable pain, was the reason for the suicide. So how did Nitschke respond?

''There will be some casualties,” he said with the tenderness of General Haig sending troops over the top at the Somme, “but this has to be balanced with the growing pool of older people who feel immense well-being from having access to this information,'' [about suicide drugs].

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So much about the declared goals of euthanasia supporters such as easing the suffering of the terminally ill, those who are in pain etc. And, considering the aging crisis that the Western nations are facing; considering the subsequent budget and pension crisis, it's obvious that once euthanasia becomes legal, it will become mandatory (officially or unofficially) in just a few years time.