Sorry for any confusion. I wasn’t commenting on the approach. The approach is not relevant. I was commenting on the broadcasting of this event.
I was commenting that the purpose of this event is to brainwash society into accepting that it is “humane” and for the “public good” to kill yourself (or to kill a family member) when the state deems you are no longer an asset but a liability, or when the new Moralists deem your life is not worth living.
Well you do bring up another point. Suicide really is the ultimate form of vanity and selfishness. This person wanted it broadcast because he wanted to show everyone just how this is supposed to be done. In a very ironic sense, he got exactly that for which he asked.
I was commenting that the purpose of this event is to brainwash society into accepting that it is “humane” and for the “public good” to kill yourself (or to kill a family member) when the state deems you are no longer an asset but a liability, or when the new Moralists deem your life is not worth living.
I cannot find enough ways to "amen" what you said. And this is how it always starts... someone, as a sick person, has a "right" to die with "dignity" by their own hand. Then it it becomes an "assisted" "suicide" with the help of someone else. Soon it morphs into a "duty to die" because such people are "burdens" on society. Then of course it becomes wanton murder of "undesirables."