Euthanasia Video Being Shown To 14-year-olds in U.K. Schools

By Douglas V. Gibbs

European society is where the Democrats wish to lead America. We are about a decade behind them, we are told, and need to catch up. Personally, I take great pride in America's exceptionalism. Liberalism in Europe has proven to fail. Progressives in Europe have destroyed those societies, and it would do us well not to follow in their footsteps.

Case in point:

Pupils in some schools in the United Kingdom are being taught about euthanasia with a video featuring a notorious assisted suicide campaigner nicknamed Dr. Death.

Dr. Philip Nitschke is shown in these "educational" videos demonstrating his machine that delivers lethal injections. The film is being shown to pupils as young as 14 years of age across Britain.

There is also footage of him giving workshops on assisted suicide methods, footage that have led local church leaders to criticize the film as an 'invitation to commit suicide'.

The argument supporting the use of the video in schools points out that the video provides both viewpoints of the issue, including many comments from opponents of euthanasia.

The promoters of the practice of assisted suicide who are behind showing this film to kids in school state that they have been receiving extremely positive responses from both pupils and teachers.

Those that oppose the film being used in schools claims that irregardless of parental opinion, the extreme views of Dr. Nitschke are being pushed on these children at a critical stage in their development when these children are most impressionable.

While it seems on the surface reasonable to discuss this issue on euthanasia and assisted dying to some folks, I am appalled that the feeling that there even needs to be a discussion in the first place even exists. What kind of society have we become when death has evolved into something that is nothing more than yet another method one can inflict upon oneself? And to take it a step further, we don't know the mental makeup of the people viewing this heinous material. How do we know that this video isn't promoting suicide among these children in their minds, or that due to mental difficulties these children are being affected in other damaging ways by viewing this video? As Psychologist Dr Arthur Cassidy, a director of the Yellow Ribbon anti-suicide program, has said: "This video. . . has the potential for young people to think about ending their lives."

This is just another way for the progressive madness to encourage the people they see as mere numbers to experiment in suicide, and further more, desensitize the population to the point that other methods of death, like eugenics, which is used to eliminate what is considered by the elite to be "defective" citizens, will be seen as nothing more than standard fare. We are being moved in the direction of becoming a culture of death, with abortion and euthanasia now considered as nothing more than normal procedure. So, the logical conclusion of this kind of progressivism is to work to create a perfect race by weeding out the undesirables, and doing it through the culture of death that the progressives have created.

Throw in the belief that we are over-populated, and the masses can be manipulated to accept such heinous programs of eugenics, compulsory sterilization, and other methods of bringing about a utopia - a master race - with relative ease.

This film even could encourage young people to think they are a burden, and that if they don't fit in to society according to the standards of the elite, the way out is as easy as euthanasia. In that sense, it creates a system where eugenics may not even have to be forced upon the people, for the undesirables will be voluntarily be removing themselves from the populace.

Dangerous stuff, with horrific potential.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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