Talk about "a duty to die" made me think back to my early childhood in the South, during the Great Depression. One day, I was told that an older lady -- a relative -- was going to come and stay with us for a while, and I was told how to be polite and considerate toward her."Aunt" Nance Ann had no home of her own. But she moved around from relative to relative, not spending enough time in any one home to be a real burden.
At that time, we didn't have things like electricity or central heating or hot running water. But we had a roof over our heads and food on the table -- and Aunt Nance Ann was welcome to both.
Poor as we were, I never heard anybody say, or even intimate, that Aunt Nance Ann had "a duty to die." I only began to hear that kind of talk decades later, from educated people in an age when even most families living below poverty level owned a car and had air-conditioning.
It is today, in an age when homes have flat-paneled TVs, and most families eat in restaurants regularly or have pizzas and other meals delivered to their homes, that the elites -- rather than the masses -- have begun talking about "a duty to die."...
Thomas Sowell's column (here in the New York Post) provides one of the most memorable and compelling analyses of today's unnecessary, inhumane and self-centered euthanasia movement. Check it out.
