At a point where suicide is at a 10-year high and female suicides in particular have unbelievably doubled in this short time, we can see how the euthanasia debate gained momentum.
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And how, once legalised, will be abused.
Nobody wants to see a loved one suffer.
No one.
We are all emotional when it comes to this subject.
All of us.
So I believe Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ took an unfair advantage by using his father’s death as his motivation for pushing euthanasia.
The ignored paradox in all of this is his father had a very good death by the Premier’s own admission.
What makes us human, as opposed to only animal, is not so much our intelligence, but rather our love for each other.
And in particular, our compassion for each other.
Snakes and spiders eat each other.
Humans prefer to keep each other alive and safe, even strangers, even if they’re weak.
Even if they’re dying.
Euthanasia is thus not evolution; euthanasia to devolution.
By assisting those during suffering that we permeate the most important virtue of all.
Love and without love we would be only animal.
Some of the strongest bonds are established during times of difficulty.
A baby’s constant needs and screams are such a handful for a new mother and can even test her sanity.
But this liability creates an asset and forms a lifelong love.
If she passes the liabilities on to another, this weakens the bond.
I once lost my job, colleagues and accommodation and not for something I did wrong but for a viewpoint I sincerely held.
My conscience was free, but that’s pretty much where the freedom ended.
I had nowhere to go and nowhere to live.
The people who took me in during this lonely, painful and vulnerable time have found a place in my heart that cannot be destroyed.
You cannot build muscle without pain and love isn’t love if it’s never been tested.
Euthanasia or “mercy” killing will literally decrease the very meaning of life.
And life is Love.
It will make a public mockery of the very reason the health service was set up for in the first place.
When euthanasia was legalised in Holland scores of elderly people were too afraid to go to hospital or even retirement places.
They believed they’d be “mercy” killed.
I hope this never happens here in Griffith.
