Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Final Exit Network is a Death Cult

CBS has a story from the Final Exit Network training manual and it validates my every suspicion that the group is a death cult. From the story:

The training manual provides a detailed, behind-the-scenes look at how the network operated. It was written for what the network called "first responders," or the first to speak to those seeking help committing suicide.

"You, as the first responder, are a special person," the manual says. "You all were attracted to this program because of a compassionate interest ... Sometimes that means to 'hear' a desperation that the member does not know how to communicate and softly voice it for them."

The manual tells guides that if they've planned carefully, they can "anticipate this special day with a sense of peace and celebration."

"If this is your first case, you no doubt will be nervous from the responsibility, but you can try to keep a sense of celebration about the proceedings to come," the manual says.After a member has killed him or herself in the presence of two exit guides, the guides "usually go to a restaurant to quietly celebrate."
There's a word for this: S.I.C.K.

13 Comments:

At April 22, 2009 , Blogger Unknown said...

With and without periods.

 
At April 22, 2009 , Blogger Gregory L. Ford said...

Baal lives.

 
At April 22, 2009 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sooo...they're supposed to coerce someone to commit suicide then go off and have a few beers?

This is just too creepy.

 
At April 22, 2009 , Blogger Wesley J. Smith said...

Indeed Gregory L. Ford. And in more ways than this.

 
At April 23, 2009 , Blogger Christine the Soccer Mom said...

Once upon a time if someone was desperate and wanted to commit suicide, someone would talk them down and convince them that life is worth living.

Now, we have people who are cheerleaders for it, whispering, "Jump. Jump. Jump."

These days, George Bailey would have drowned in the river. Sick is the least we could say. This is sadism.

 
At April 23, 2009 , Blogger SAFEpres said...

Yes, Baal lives. And so does Molech.

 
At April 24, 2009 , Blogger Donnie Mac Leod said...

The human conscience becomes so warped that the Devil's Handmaidens have hand books for missions that Florence Nightingale would never condone with her sense of duty and value for life.

 
At April 24, 2009 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is really creepy. I have no words to describe how I felt after reading it.

 
At April 24, 2009 , Blogger Wesley J. Smith said...

clauz: Welcome to my world. Thanks for stopping by.

 
At April 25, 2009 , Blogger SuzieC said...

Compassion is the plea of those in favor of euthanasia.

I recommend Michael Burleigh's "Death and Deliverance" to everyone who is concerned by this issues -- and alarmed by the facile slogan used to promote it.

The early chapters are particularly interesting because they detail the growth of favorable attitudes toward euthanasia *before* the national socialists' rise to power.

Binding and Hoche's work, "Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Living"(I think I've got the title right, though I don't know much German) was published in 1920. Compassion was their plea in favor of killing -- very gently and humanely -- incurably ill people. (The Nazi Party was formed that same year, but had not yet gained the power it wielded a decade later.)

Mr. Burleigh's book is superbly researched, with abundant references to primary sources. It isn't what anybody would call light reading, still a complex issue requires the detailed treatment he devotes to it.

...Oh and I hope I've finally figured out how to make this posting thang work aright.

 
At April 25, 2009 , Blogger SuzieC said...

Got it!

I must take a poke at the pro-euthanasia folk: they put up so many Straw Men it looks like the March of the Wooden Soldiers!

 
At May 02, 2009 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wesley smith is a very confused and ignorant man. This is what is wrong with the Internet.

 
At May 03, 2009 , Blogger Donnie Mac Leod said...

In making your ad hominem you seem to have made a grievous error Bob. Thinking people wopuld reflect and ask themselves,why one should think you are a blessing to the internet, Bob.

 

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