Coming Soon: War Against the Weak the Documentary
The book War Against the Weak is the best history of the eugenics movement ever written. (Here is my take that appeared in National Review.) Now, there is a new documentary about to be released--War Against the Weak--The Movie. (Hit this link to see a trailer
For SHSers in Southern California, it will premier today at the Santa Barbara Film Festival:
I haven't previewed the film, but it looks like good stuff.WORLD PREMIERE Saturday, January 24th, 4:00pm Santa Barbara Museum of Art * 1130 State St, Santa Barbara, CA(805) 963-4364.
Monday, January 26th, 4:45pm Metro 4 Theatre * 618 State St, Santa Barbara, CA - (805) 963-9503
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 12:15 PM
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Thanks for the information. Its very helpful sir!
There is an opinion piece in today's New York Post by a doctor in Minnesota (not sure I remember the state right) opining on how hard it is for older people to die now that there are "advances" and how it's hard on the nurses whom the ancient-in-their-eighties tell they really don't want to go through all that but don't tell their families, etc., and how everybody should get to die naturally, in their sleep, etc. I don't know how old this guy is but I spent 10 months watching doctors in their 20s, 30s, and 40s being just sure that it would be better for an old person to die than to have the life support the person in fact desperately wanted, and wanted to stay on for as long as she could live (and even indicated thus when asked), and having no idea of course what it's like to that age, and unable to believe that some very old people DO want to live no matter what. Some nurses understood, and a couple of the better doctors, but the only one who would advocate for her was her 89-year-old ophthalmologist whose own mother had been the same way and who still goes to his office and sees patients every day; I remember one conversation I had with him when he was up on a ladder cleaning the gutters on his house; he's been on the teaching staff of the hospital since 1949 and none of the doctors even knew that, or of him, to whom the 45ish i.c.u. head referred dismissively as "the old guy." War against the weak is right, and a shot in it was just fired today on the opinion page of the New York Post. I know it's good stuff, but I don't think I could bear to see this film.
I'm ordering the book from Amazon.com for 12.24.
After reading your take, you sold me.
I look forward to the documentary as well.
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