but not for them.
Not an act of bravery, imo
Adds slippery to the slope
Lovers’ leap has been institutionalized.
Do they offer a package discount?
We hear about botched lethal injections in death penalty sentences.
Why don’t we hear about any botched lethal injections for suicide victims?
This is simply evidence of the lack of God and belief in God by an entire country. This behavior is a characteristic of the Culture of Death. Abortion on one end and euthanasia on the other.
The government of Canada has replaced God in their lives. What happened to natural death?
I find getting old “interesting”....and have a few extended relatives in their nineties...including cranky MIL...this assisted dying seems like a cop-out, unless you are literally on death’s bed and under Hospice Care...like a good friend of mine. (Brain cancer).
Mens hearts failing for fear....certain political and ethnic groups might be very happy to see the self destruction of others...despairing unto death without hope is a tough thing..
The thing is this couple could have taken their own lives at any time. They did not need the aid of the State to do this. The part of the article I read where the man could not figure out how they could take own lives and was confused as to how to do it was bunk.
With their collective health problems I have no doubt they had enough pills between them to do the job. It was propaganda by the State to make this into a Love Story. Sorry I don’t buy it.
I understand their thinking but they had options.
And the slope gets even more slippery.
That their passing was in essence sanctioned by a church giving them last rites is troubling. If one believes that God is the giver of life and human life is a unique and precious gift, how can suicide in any form be acceptable to God? Look at Barbara Bush who met death with dignity.
Normalizing “assisted” death, will have bad consequences for “undesireables” in the future.
“Dean Andrew Asbill, from St. James Cathedral in Toronto, administered their final rites.” Does anyone wonder why Christianity is fading in Canada and other western countries? If so here is your answer. “Be your own God. If it feels good do it.”
Three of the Brickendens’ four children — Angela, 54, Saxe, 60 and Pamela, 71 — were in the room as their parents said their final goodbyes.
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Perhaps the other kid refused to attend this suicide based on moral reasons?
I would not have supported nor attended this suicide if it were my parents.
If you want to off yourself, do it.
Don’t soil the medical profession by making them do it for you.
Very hard to make it business, though: no returned customer
George and Shirley made a choice. They may have in all likelihood placed themselves in hell by turning away from God and His Will, deliberately preferring themselves and their own will to God’s, in effect saying: “I will not serve!” The choice was theirs and it was a very sad and eternal choice to make. May the Lord have mercy on them and their children for allowing this to happen!
Liberals, my arse. It’s a libertarian thing. And why does the state have a decision about when one chooses to die?
At present, one must hurt someone other to decide at which time to depart. (For example, jump in front of a train or off a building, or shoot oneself and have a victim or victims be traumatized by the event.) Why should that be?
People have the right to decide when tey depart, I say.