Category: Sanctity of Life

Is aborting someone OK if we won’t miss them?

“Every human being has inherent value and dignity and should be treated as such. Your value cannot be diminished based on the number of people who will miss you when you die. And since Maher felt the need to highlight how many people are currently on Earth, I’ll also clarify that your value cannot be diminished by the number of people on Earth either. Your value remains the same whether there are 8 people or 8 billion people on this planet.”

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Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying rather than live with bedsores

A quadriplegic Quebec man has chosen assisted dying because of a bedsore he acquired when a hospital failed to give him a special pressure mattress. In January Normand Meunier went to the emergency section of a hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, for a respiratory complaint. He lay in a stretcher for four days without a pressure-relieving mattress and developed huge bed sores on his buttocks. The misery, apparently, was so great that he requested euthanasia, or, as it is called in Canada, MAID. “I don’t want to be a burden. At any rate, the medical opinions say I won’t be a burden for long; as the old folks say, it’s better to kick the can,” said Meunier.

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