This past week it was revealed that the execrable JB Pritzker, failing governor of Illinois and laughingly considered an actual candidate for the Democrat campaign for president in '26, has passed a euthanasia bill in his state. Many on the left...morons all for thinking this dude should be governor...hail this as a victory for "death with dignity". That's funny. Suicide is somehow "dignified".
The pat argument is that for those enduring horribly painful suffering, doctor assisted suicide is a "right" which everyone somehow has and, by golly, it's high time they were afforded this exit strategy to relieve them of their suffering.
My father-in-law was no longer willing to live on by virtue of life-support measures...hooked up to machines which helped him breathe more easily...nor by being served hand and foot by his wife and family unable to do anything for himself. This was the state to which ALS had led him slowly and he decided that if it was his time, then he will no longer deny Death his desire. Thus, he chose to remove all life-support measures and see what happens, knowing that his end was damn near guaranteed. He did indeed pass away as a result, with his family surrounding him.
So how is this different than euthanasia if death is so likely? Well, he wasn't killed. He was allowed to die if Death chose to take him. Euthanasia means one is being killed, not "allowed to die". "Red", as he was known to many (coincidentally, as was my actual father), did die with dignity because his ailment was taking him one way or another, with it only being a matter of when. It should have and would have happened well before his decision were his life not supported by medical equipment.
So that's the difference. What Prickster has done is just another leftist life-taking measure. Whereas he supports taking life just begun, he now allows life to be taken later in life. That's so progressive, isn't it?
Now, we have to wonder just how this will play out in the future. I don't know the details of the bill...what limitations are written into it. But I can't help but feel confident that this will be allowed for lots of people who are not suffering extreme and unrelenting pain. I can't help but feel that it will simply lead to tons of suicides.
One thing I have just read is that it requires that the death certificate of the patient not mention euthanasia...or the ingestion of drugs or however one is put down...as the cause of death, despite it being so. No. They're required to put whatever illness from which the patient suffered as the cause. That is, coroners are required to lie.
Again, "progressives"...who make lots of noise about opposing oppression, infringement no human rights and other highfalutin posturing...show they are not the lovers of life they want us to believe they are. Abort the children, kill off the elderly and sick.
But what else? How about cashless bail and the release into the general population violent, often insane criminals who will again rape and murder? How about defending the "right" of illegal invaders to remain in this country regardless of their character, just because Trump chose to do his duty and send them packing.? How about defending drug runners on the pretense Trump has no idea if they're drug runners or fisherman? As we've seen in discussions at Craig's blog, what counts for abuses and oppression is really a matter of who is the abused and who is accused of abusing. The reality is more often than not, the abusers and oppressors are the progressive left.
Friday, December 19, 2025
Lovers Of Life? I Don't Think So!
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