Stop the Idiocracy: Assisted Dying

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

La Dernière Liberté

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Dignity: French Assembly approves assisted dying for incurable illnesses; Macron hails passage after Senate rejection. {France 24 15 July}

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260715-france-expected-to-pass-final-vote-on-assisted-dying-after-years-of-debate

Not in a million years will assisted dying be permitted in #Murica.

Is there anything ultimately crueler than forcing a person in pain — to be clear, the legislation in France applies only to competent adults suffering from illnesses deemed incurable — to continue existing in this world? What obligation does any individual who is suffering have to everybody else that the force of law should compel them to remain?

Frankly, it is akin to slavery. Society does not legitimately own any individual; it can only claim such ownership through force. Anyone who opposes mercy for the suffering is claiming ownership over them, and that disturbs me more than I can put into words.

I applaud the French legislators responsible for seeing this measure through, but it is only a first step towards establishing genuine respect for individual rights, personal autonomy, and human dignity.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Netherlands: a terminally ill twelve-year-old hath been legally euthanised, the first under a new law allowing a dignified passing

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{The Telegraph 23 June} https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/23/child-under-age-of-12-euthanised-in-netherlands/

Guaranteed, the former United States — at least so long as it remains a single political entity, and it shall not in the long-term — will probably be the last nation on earth to allow its citizens autonomy over their own lives.

The American people and their institutions (not least the theocrats) will never allow it. We are destined eternally to be slaves to the state and to one another, all while proclaiming how ‘free’ and happy we are for it.

America, as it is composed now, is a nation with a lot of growing up. Rather hard to grow when one is committed to cruelty and inhumanity. The nation is a reflection of its president: evil, rotting, decaying, and, like a wounded animal, more dangerous than ever before. We would rather our children, elderly, and sick suffer than show mercy, and tell ourselves it is Jesus’ will.

And, maybe it is His will. I know He hath never loved me, not from the day of my nativity, no matter how much I tried to reach out to Him through all these bloody miserable, thankless years.

No matter, to force anyone to live against their will is sick, demented, and a gross violation of basic human rights, and Jesus Himself will not tell me otherwise.

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