"What's on the telly tonight, dear?""Oh, there's a couple of moronic sitcoms, a documentary about hot air ballooning, an old movie with Richard Burton...and, hmm, this looks interesting -- a live feed from Sky Real Lives of a man dying of suffocation in a Swiss euthanasia clinic."
"Oh? Be sure and call the kiddies down for that."
Invented? No.
On British TV tomorrow night will be shown 59-year old Craig Ewert killing himself at a suicide clinic in Switzerland. The show's producers, in order to stay within British law, claim it is neutral on the subject of euthanasia.
But they're lying.
Note, for instance, the biased comments of the program's co-producer Terence McKeown: "It was an incredibly difficult experience for all of us. I think we’ve all suffered a bit of post-traumatic stress from it. It was profound and stayed with all of us, more so because we spent the previous few days with Craig, travelled with him to Zurich and got to know him quite well.
"He should have been able to do it at his home. He argued that it is quite inhumane to force people in various states of illness to go to a little apartment in a foreign city to die."
Televising a real person's suicide on TV? And doing so in a manner that profoundly encourages death as a good, friendly, welcome thing? We are indeed embracing a culture of death in the West as we brazenly, foolishly defy God.
