Assisted Suicide for Fun and Profit in Kenya?
Kenya is a very poor country. But some among the assisted suicide crowd apparently see it as prime pickings for the well off in that country, with suicide tourism for profit being proposed. From the story:Kenya could become the first country in Africa to legalise doctor-assisted suicide if lobbying by a group of local and foreign investors succeeds in convincing lawmakers to make it legal for terminally ill patients to be assisted to die.
Of course Switzerland doesn't require people to be terminally ill to participate in suicide tourism. But never mind. Suicide is a necessity. We must be sure people don't suffer.
Mr John Hurst, a British investor and the managing director of Dignity International, is the man behind the plans to introduce the Doctor Assisted Suicide (DAS) in Kenya. He says the logic behind assisted-suicide is that since the terminally ill patient will eventually die, it would be better to hasten their death to save the patient from pain and the family from the financial burden that may arise after prolonged treatment.
If allowed in Kenya, terminally ill patients will be required to pay Sh300,000 for the service including burial. The act will not be done in Kenya, rather the patient will be flown to Switzerland for the process to take place. The dead patient will then be flown back for burial.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 9:13 AM
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17 Comments:
Not an imagining at all!
I tried e-mailing you but couldn't for some reason?
Have you seen Will Smith's latest film, 7 Pounds?
It is disturbing to say the least. It cloaks itself in a "life" message. Yet it is quite the opposite.
If you happen to see it I'm sure you could give an in depth review.
I've been upset about it for days...
No, I haven't. Why am I not surprised?
I haven't seen it but here's the Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Pounds
If it's a Will Smith movie then I know the acting will be good, which tears me up because I don't like the premis presented in Wiki.
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Profiting from PAS is outrageous, but predictable. Abortion is a big money maker with industry lobbyists working to prevent any barrier to reducing them. The same thing will happen with PAS. It makes sense that groups will likewise try to profit on killing vulnerable people struggling with pain, or who just don't want to live, feel they are a burden and etc. I don't believe for one minute that these people really care about their targets. They are dollar signs to them. I further think they are exploiting these Africans for their own political and ideological ends and political and ideological satisfaction. I have more esteem for Somali Pirates than these people.
It's like the opposite of the "Make A Wish" foundation . . .
Dear Sirs,
I am a 15 yr old girl dying of HIV. My wish for my whole life is to see the snowy peaks of the Swiss Alps. I am very poor and without your help my dream will never come true . . .
Sincerely,
Aluna
Dear Aluna,
Doctor Assisted Suicide is coming to your rescue! For a mere $3,878.50 (only 11 times your families annual income) we will whisk you away to the alps and end your illness. You will no longer have to feel like the wretched, scourge of your country that you are. Thank you for your interest, we are coming to get you!
Sincerely,
Mr. Wise Investor
>Culture of Death? What Culture of Death? Wesley, it is all in your paranoid imaginings.<
Hey Wesley! They are talking to you also? Now I really know that I'm not alone.:)
Don't feel bad Wesley cause we're in good hands, I've heard that some considered Jesus The Christ a male chauvinistic paranoid imaginary schizophrenic maniac. We're lucky though no one has spit in our face and/or crucified U.S. yet.
Between you and me, this Guy was really crazy and to top it all He was considered a God by many, they say! My imaginary spiritual friends from the hotel of fools are saying stuff like, let them try "IT" with any of their loving cells and they'll make dog meat out of them and their so called Almighty Dollar also and that's if they are lucky.
All kidding aside Wesley, this is really scary cause I'm sure that there's at least one occasion in the past that I might have taken them UP on their offer and believing that it would have been ok to do so. If they don't stop "IT" really soon, "IT" could get a lot scarier than "IT" is now!
I thought that you stopped kidding sinner vic?
I'll close by saying what Jesus said in so many words while He was dying on the Cross for our sins. Forgive them Father for they know not what they do!
God Bless,
Peace
I decamped from here because I myself had seen what Dark Swan pointed out was obvious to people, apart from the issue under discussion at the time. But in this brief cameo re-appearance I wish to register a few short points:
Of course it's not paranoid or imagining.
What on earth does "mystery of life," a phrase on which the Montana decision turns, mean, and what on earth is it doing in a judicial decision? It is itself "mysterious," just as the parameters for assisted suicide and euthanasia are intentionally vague.
I had just started to conclude that the death culture of this century and the last had gotten its start and taken hold where there is not enough sunlight to produce Mediterranean sanity (Germany, the low countries (Netherlands, etc., Scandanavia, Scotland, England, Washington State, Oregon and right here in my own town which long since has acknowledged its own brand of grey climate) when I started to wonder about whether this holds true re Montana. But is there not enough sunlight in Kenya? At the same time, I just heard on Savage's radio show that food shortages in Africa now have humans killing and eating other primates. Not that I agree with Singer, who sold out the animal rights issue; I'm just noting the coincidence, which may lead to different and more correct conclusions than Singer's theories. Anyway, is Kenya so broke that it's decided to try to cash in on the death culture too? Or what?
SAFEPRES: I tried to find the link you gave me on this site (which I was very glad and grateful that you did) to contact you, and can't; I emailed S.A.F.E. but don't know whether that email got to you. I do want to be in touch. Hope you and all here have a great holiday.
And by the way -- the Catholic church gives the same rationale for approving withdrawal of life support -- not just that it would not be right to force a person to suffer on life support (there's the veneer of Catholic/Christian "nice"), but that it's ok "if the person wishes to spare his/her family and/or the community expense" (there's the utilitarian hypocricy, and how did "community" become the issue?). Same tradition that declared that non-human animals don't have souls (how is that the right and ability of humans, who are according to the same theology God's creation, to determine? "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; the proper study of mankind is man" is apt here)which set science on the insane and ultimately destructive-to-humans path it's been on ever since. Same religion that bans astrology (despite what the Magi were) and has the largest and best astrological library in the world sequestered in the Vatican. It's inconsistent, hypocritical, and utilitarian through and through, and by the same token, "Human exceptionalism" needs some reworking to be as effective as the human race itself needs those who oppose the death culture to be for the sake of its very survival. The relative status and the "rights" of various forms of life are irrelevant and a red herring in whichever respect they are argued, and merely distract from the crucial issue of the value of and respect for life, period. Other animals don't get all theoretical and upside-down about this stuff and doing the crazy stuff we do, and even if it were true that the primary reason for their existence were to be of use to humans (animal experimentation isn't utilitarian?), humans should be able to consider that they may be here as well so that we can learn simple common sense from them. All the justified concern about the death culture hasn't stopped the death culture from encroaching, because it hasn't opposed it with the right tactics and based on the strongest and most consistent premises. This is like watching a bunch of Christians saying gee those Romans and those lions, they sure are dangerous, but what can we do, and anyway there's strength in weakness and another better world awaits us and we forgive them and death is better than and invitable anyway under the circumstances of what we're having to put up with these days. The Judeo-Christian approach did succeed in destroying the Romans, but it's brought us the death culture in a far less straightforward form than anything the Romans did. If "human exceptionalism" holds that each individual human life is valuable and to be fought for, it can't soundly and sufficiently base that premise on Judaeo-Christian principles which are themselves utilitarian, or on the rest of its utilitarian premise, and still get where it wants to go.
I don't know if this is allowed, so corect me if I'm wrong, Wesley, but my email is vocalist_2007@hotmail.com. You can contact me that way, Ianthe. Hope to hear from you!
People are free to give out their own e-mail, but no one else's. The easiest way would be to put it on your Blogger profile.
Thank you SAFEpres! I should be able to email in the next couple of days.
(By the time someone as non-computer savvy as I learned how to use the Blogger profile, assisted suicide and euthanasia would be mandatory in all 50 states. Which the way things are going....)
heh.
Talk about white folks telling Africans to die to save someone money.
Racism anyone?
I just checked a bunch of African sites, and they are not talking about it...
I suspect this is like the "assisted suicide" planted stories in the Manila papers: An outside group comes in and plants the "need" with a politician who "supports" it...and it of course goes no where...
But the intelligencia is now aware of the "problem" and it plants a seed for the future.
But the chances of it being implemented in Africa are a bit less than it being implemented here in the Philippines, for the same reason: Religious population, strong churches, and docs who won't cooperate (and layfolk who will rebel).
(I worked in Africa and have a blog about africa http://makaipa.blogspot.com)
Mrs. Darcy-
LOL! Great, scathing parady.
This sounds like a concierge service. I'm not clear on whether it's for Kenyans only or for anyone, anywhere in the world, who wants that great oxymoron, assisted suicide, which can be arranged in Kenya and the person gets flown to Switzerland alive and back from Switzerland dead (and is burial in Kenya or can it be back home in Peoria?) If this would be a concierge service available to anyone in the world, and comes into existence, it won't be long before Uncle Harry in Peoria gets flown from Illinois to Kenya to Switzerland (or can it be straight to Switzerland) alive and back to the neighborhood funeral home in Peoria (via Kenya, if the law requires) dead because he's sick and tired of his in-laws. It would be not unlike a call center in India from which mortgages get pitched to U.S. Indianians. Of course investors are interested, and they knew they couldn't get it going in the U.S., Europe, or, say, Malaysia, and as it's an outre idea (thus far), it needs to be in a remote location that still has sufficient facilities to do it up right; after all, it's not cheap. Like elective plastic surgery.
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