Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Everybody just wants to die it seams.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Is life in Canada so bad that death is a better alternative?
“The euthanasia conference was held at a Sheraton. Some 300 Canadian professionals, most of them clinicians, had arrived for the annual event. There were lunch buffets and complimentary tote bags; attendees could look forward to a Friday-night social outing, with a DJ, at an event space above Par-Tee Putt in downtown Vancouver. ‘The most important thing,’ one doctor told me, ‘is the networking.’
“Which is to say that it might have been any other convention in Canada. Over the past decade, practitioners of euthanasia have become as familiar as orthodontists or plastic surgeons are with the mundane rituals of lanyards and drink tickets and It’s been so long s outside the ballroom of a four-star hotel. The difference is that, 10 years ago, what many of the attendees here do for work would have been considered homicide.”
Not even until death do they part…
“A devoted couple who ‘couldn’t bear to be apart’ have died together at a Swiss assisted dying clinic after sending emails to their relatives to let them know.
“Neither Michael Posner, 97, nor his wife Ruth, 96, had a terminal illness, but had made the decision to die together because they were desperate not to be apart after 75 years of marriage.
“The couple, from north London, sent a message to their ‘Dear family and friends’ on September 26, writing the details their passing, reports the Mirror.
“The email read: ‘So sorry not to have mentioned it but when you receive this email we will have ‘shuffled off this mortal coil’.”
When you advocate for death, death advocates for you.
“Euthanasia activist Florian Willet committed suicide last month in Germany after he was arrested late last year for facilitating the Sarco suicide-pod-induced death of a 64-year-old American woman.
“Willet, 47, was the only other person present when the Sarco pod’s inaugural kill took place in a Switzerland forest last September. He was the president of the Last Resort, an organization created to help patients use the notorious Sarco suicide pod — a high-tech capsule that fills with deadly nitrogen when users step inside and press a kill switch.
“Swiss authorities quickly arrested Willet and some of his colleagues after the woman’s death. Although assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, authorities found strangulation marks on the woman’s neck and suspected Willet of murder, they said. Willet was held for 70 days until prosecutors dismissed the murder charge. Authorities still suspect that Willet, and others at Last Resort, illegally prompted the woman to take her own life.”
TTFN.
