[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

That is one hell of a funny website.
It even has the soccer player who claims he is the messiah and says everyone must were turquiose
Feuer, do you expect anyone to take anything on there seriously?

Soccer players who are Messiahs?
Haven't seen that one on there.
In respect to the article posted, i posted it as a discussion point.
The source maybe a little alternative, for want of a better word, granted.
However, questions are being asked. Some of the content of the article is i might add a little distasteful and i was slow to pick up on it, however the premise is still the same: posing the question
Pro or anti?
I thought that it did make some relevant points, none moreso than:

Hard on the heels of this s...f movie came the sickening news that a video featuring notorious assisted suicide campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke, in which he demonstrates how to help people kill themselves, is being shown to schoolchildren in British classrooms.

Not really appropriate.

Nitschke, nicknamed ---8216;Dr Death---8217; ---8212; whose DIY suicide manual provides instructions on how to kill yourself with plastic bags, carbon monoxide, cyanide, morphine and other poisons ---8212; is shown in the film demonstrating his machine that delivers lethal injections and giving workshops on his ghastly trade.

Again, not appropriate.

Of course, it is impossible not to sympathise with individuals who seek to end their own lives in this way. We can all identify with the terror of being trapped inside a useless body, of losing control, of the pain and indignity of a horrible terminal disease. If it were simply a case of having the right to die, however, the issuewould be pretty simple. After all, suicide is legal. But assisted suicide is deeply problematic.

I agree there, nothing wrong with this statement.

And what on earth are teachers thinking of in exposing schoolchildren to Philip Nitschke, who in any normal moral universe would be considered utterly beyond the pale?

Indeed, what are they thinking?

The ---8216;right to die---8217; has an appealing ring to it, but apply the Beachy Head test. If, hypothetically, you saw someone in a wheelchair about to throw himself off Beachy Head, would you stand and applaud, maybe even give the wheelchair a helpful push ---8212; or would you rush forward to stop him?

Good analogy, no?

We must resist it and reaffirm life, true compassion and our common humanity.

Hear hear!
It is a hard-line article with questions being asked in a more blunt way perhaps than a lot of articles written about this topic.
Because it is more blunt or straight to the point and asks perhaps some uncomfortable questions, is this the reason that we should shy away from asking ourselves the exact same questions?
Just because the article is addressing the topic matter differently or in a way that may seem a little too straight to the point, is that any reason to dismiss it and laugh it off as garbage?
It's all about the wording it seems, because there are countless online articles, addressing exactly the same topic and the same Dr Death, P Nitshkie and his so-called methods.
And here is the link to the story of school kids, 14 year-olds no less, being shown the Suicide film by our very own P Nitschke:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...year-olds.html

Why the heck are we advocating this?