Felos was trying to put spin on the situation. He was using lawyer to the jury trickery. It does not matter how absurd, he was doing this to give his hemlock society buddies cover for the horrific act they are doing.
Judge whitmore did not want to call it murder because Judge Greer sanction the murder.
"Felos was trying to put spin on the situation. He was using lawyer to the jury trickery. It does not matter how absurd, he was doing this to give his hemlock society buddies cover for the horrific act they are doing.
Judge whitmore did not want to call it murder because Judge Greer sanction the murder."
The real politics to begin now. Try and put the best face on this as possible. Lying crapweasels painting this as something pleasant and beautiful is beyond despicable.
I can understand spin and he does plenty of it, but he could have stopped at "peaceful" and "resting comfortably." However, as a prominent euthanasia advocate, I honestly believe that he thinks she looks beautiful, that he sees beauty in such an horrific death.
In addition, the man is a New Age mystic, chants "I am that I am" when meditating, imagines that he communicates telepathically with the souls of patients who can't talk (of course, they tell him they want to die), and thinks God talks to him about how powerful he (Felos) is.
In his book "Litigation as Spiritual Practice", he admits that his New Age beliefs are what drive him in the courtroom, and among other outrageous things, he said this about the Holocaust -
"The Jewish people, long ago in their collective consciousness, agreed to play the role of the lamb whose slaughter was necessary to shock humanity into a new moral consciousness. Their sacrifice saved humanity at the brink of extinction and propelled us into a new age." (pg 240)
and
"If our minds can conceive of an uplifting Holocaust, can it be so diffucult to look another way at the slights and injuries and abuses we perceive were inflicted upon us?" (pg 24
I can only imagine what role Felos would have played had he been born in Germany a hundred years ago.