The people who say that are, inarguably, bald-faced liars, ill informed or delusional. There are no other options.Good for her -- she's going to get ripped to shreds over it -- but what I really want to highlight is something later on in her column:
Maybe instead of killing lonely people, the staff in these mobile [euthanasia] units should go around and visit them, give them a hug and take them for coffee rather than hand them a lethal prescription so they can die in lonely desperation.Yes yes yes, and I say that even as a non-coffee drinker. Help them do something that has the stamp of ordinary life, that normal people do with other people. That may not be all they want. But it's part of what they're missing, almost surely.
Befriending people has always been lots of work. But until recently, society didn't have the alternative of helping them do away with themselves -- because that was wrong. Not wrong anymore, so what the hey, bye-bye.
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